Claudio Palomares-Salas

Research and teaching interests: Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature and Music; Hispanic Avant-Garde Movements; and the Political Song in Latin America (1960-1990), particularly in Mexico.

Education

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2013
M.A., McGill University, 2009
B.A., McGill University, 2007

About          

Claudio Palomares-Salas joined the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in 2014. He has taught Latin American and Spanish literature, culture, music, and cinema courses, as well as Spanish language and translation courses, at McGill University, the University of Toronto, Trent University and Queen’s. His research and teaching interests are Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature and Music; Hispanic Avant-Garde Movements; and the Political Song in Latin America (1960-1990), particularly in Mexico.

Books

Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2025)

The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde (Brill, 2020)

All publications

Publications: Claudio Palomares-Salas

Teaching 

LLCU 248: Introduction to Latin American Cultures
LLCU 205: Investigating Nations (Mexico)
LLCU 244: Hips don’t Lie? Music and Culture in Latin America
LLCU 249: Latin Lovers: Love, Sex and Popular Culture
LLCU 311: Hispanic, Latino, Latinx? Hispanic Cultures in the US and Canada
LLCU 395: Modern Latin American Fiction

Please contact Prof. Palomares-Salas for any inquiries about our Latin American Studies minor.