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Head of School

Professor Bill Fish
Turitea Site
Palmerston North
Phone: +64 6 951 6559
Email: W.J.Fish@massey.ac.nz

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Professor Leonel Alvarado

Professor

School of Humanities Media and Creative Comm

Regional Director - Wellington

College Office - Wellington

Professor Alvarado earned a BA in 1989 at the National Autonomous University of Honduras, where he taught Latin American studies for five years, before obtaining a Fulbright-LASPAU scholarship to do a MA in Spanish at the University of Maryland, where he also completed his PhD with a thesis called Vida y Obra de Bulnes el memorioso (The Life and Works of Honduran Poet Edilberto Cardona Bulnes). While at Maryland, he taught Spanish language and culture, before taking up an Assistant Professor post at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, from 2000 to 2002, when he moved to 暴风资源. 

At 暴风资源, he teaches Spanish language and Latin American cultural studies, particularly popular music and travel writing. He also teaches on these areas at the University of New England, Australia, as part of a teaching agreement signed between both universities.

His research covers Latin American literature and cultural studies, particularly poetry, popular music and travel writing from Central America. Hailing from the Mayan region of Honduras, the richness of indigenous knowledge is essential to his writing and teaching. This has led to collaborations with M膩ori and international artists and several books exploring the relationship between indigeneity, migration, nation-building and cultural identity.

He is the author of 13 books of poetry, criticism, and short fiction, as well as several journal papers that have been published in international journals in the field of Latin American studies. He has served on the editorial boards of major international journals and the judging panels of prestigious literary awards, such as the Casa de las Américas Poetry Award (Cuba, 2017) and the Rogelio Sinán Poetry Award (Panamá, 2024).

Professor Alvarado is an award-winning poet. He teaches Latin American studies and Spanish language. His research covers Latin American literature and cultural studies, particularly poetry, popular music and travel writing from Central America.

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Research Expertise

Research Interests

Latin American literature and popular culture

Travel writing

Central American literature

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Cultural Studies (200200): Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified (200299): Languages, Communication And Culture (200000): Literary Studies (200500): Literature in Spanish and Portuguese (200514)

Research Outputs

Journal

Alvarado, L. (2025). Contra la pesca de sirenas: cuatro poetas en sus Honduras. Hispamerica. LIV(161), 35-43 Retrieved from https://www.edicioneshispamerica.com/magazines/
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2021). Rambler Dreams. Poetry and Modernity on the North Coast of Honduras. Oltreoceano. 2022(18), 55-64
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2021). Rambler Dreams: poesía y modernidad en la Costa Norte de Honduras. Oltreoceano. 1(18), 55-64 Retrieved from http://www.lineaedizioni.it/
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2020). Decir Berlin, decir Buenos Aires de Saúl Sosnowski. Latin American Literature Today. 1(16), Retreived from http://www.latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/es/2020/noviembre/decir-berl%C3%ADn-decir-buenos-aires-de-sa%C3%BAl-sosnowski
[Book Review]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2020). Diário do Rio. Revista Alterjor: Jornalismo Popular e Alternativo. 21(1), 3-11 Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-1507.v21i1p03-11
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2018). La astucia de los mitos: la poesía de Rosalba Campra. Casa de Las Americas. 291(abril-junio 2018), 107-112 Retrieved from http://www.casa.co.cu/publicaciones/revistacasa/291/5-Notas.pdf
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2018). Los poetas de Hispamérica cumplen 45 años. Estudios de Teoría Literaria. 7(14), 21-29 Retrieved from https://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/etl/article/view/2866
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2018). Memoria, sin tu equipaje no alces el vuelo: Las geografías panamadas de Rómulo Castro. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research. 23(3), 313-324 Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13260219.2017.1452682
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2018). From positivism to YouTube: Music and nationalism in Central America. Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies. (Fall 2017 -Winter 2018), 42-49 Retrieved from https://clas.berkeley.edu/research/central-america-positivism-youtube-music-and-nationalism
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Bortolotto, MC., Díaz-Rodríguez, J., & Alvarado, L. (2017). Living legacies: Memories, identities, and belonging. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research. 23(3), 187-193
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L., Bortolotto, M.
Alvarado, L. (2017). Barroco, católico y homosexual: Edilberto Cardona Bulnes en sus Honduras. Chasqui. 46(1), 57-69
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2017). Poesia de las Honduras. Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos. 799(Enero 2017), 6-21 Retrieved from http://www.aecid.es/ES/cultura/publicaciones/cuadernos-hispanoamericanos
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2016). Mrs. Howe in Havana: Activismo político y exploraciones sociales en A Trip to Cuba. South Atlantic Review. 81(3), 21-35 Retrieved from https://samla.memberclicks.net/sar
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2014). Muestra de nueva poesia hondureña. Hispamerica. XLIII(128), 77-92 Retrieved from http://www.baquiana.com/Hispamerica_T%C3%ADtulos_Publicados.htm
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2014). Centroamericano 4ever: el nacionalismo musical en YouTube. Revista Casa de las Americas. 274(enero-marzo), 8-17 Retrieved from http://www.casa.co.cu/revistacasa.php
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2011). Bello y Sarmiento: dos modos de estudiar la historia. Hipertexto. 13, 120-131
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2010). The shapes of the void. The writing of pain in the poetry of John Gelman. BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES. 87(5), 637-639
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2009). La invención lírica de la nación: Los himnos nacionales de Centroamérica. Cuadernos Americanos: nueva epoca. 129, 109-136
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2008). Lezama in Xibalbá: The Mesoamerican expression in Paradiso. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 85(5), 717-732
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2008). Lezama in Xibalba: Mesoamerican expression in 'Paradiso'. BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES. 85(5), 717-732
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2007). Bolero: Sentimental Utopias, modernity, and mestizaje. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 32(63), 147-166
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2007). Toruno-Haensly, Rhina y Nelson, Ardis L., eds. Juan Felipe Toruno en dos mundos. Hipertexto. 6, 109-111
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2006). De Mallarme a Jimenez: los dados de Dios en el jardin de la pureza. Hipertexto. 4, 3-18
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2006). La hipnosis verbal en El libro de Calila e Digna. IXQUIC: International Hispanic Journal of Literacy and Cultural Analysis. 7, 113-130
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2006). Espacios privados y proyectos publicos en el romanticismo hondureno. La Torre. 11(40), 115-132
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2004). Tiempo, lenguaje y otras falsedades en la novela sentimental. IXQUIC. 5, 115-131
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2004). Una estetica de las cosas viejas: Modernismo, barroco y marxismo en la literatura centroamericana. Kipus: Revista Andina de Letras. , 33-44
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2004). Sirenas, bananos y Sandino: Modernismo y modernizacion en Centroamerica. Cuadernos Americanos. 105(3), 77-96
[Journal article]Authored by: Alvarado, L.

Book

Alvarado, L.(2025). Respiración circular. Honduras: Editorial Cisne Negro
[Authored Book]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L.(2025). Zona en construcción. Spain: Nautilis Ediciones
[Authored Book]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2023). Cinco poetas de las Honduras: proyectos individuales y mitologías nacionales. In F. Morales Santos, JM. Ramos, L. Alvarado, J. Sobalvarro, & Á. Mata Guillé (Eds.) Pioneros : los poetas centroamericanos que definieron el siglo veinte. (pp. 117 - 160). El Salvador: Chifurnia Libros
[Chapter]Authored by: Alvarado, L.Edited by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L.(2021). Un lugar donde caerme vivo. Antología.. Honduras: Editorial Efímera
[Authored Book]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L.(2018). El lirismo patriótico centroamericano: himnos, nacionalismo e identidad. San José: Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
[Authored Book]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L.(2018). El futuro que no fuimos. Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Editorial Universitaria UNAH
[Authored Book]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L.(2017). Estos dias se llaman Blanca/These Days are called Blanca. Bilingual edition. : National Autonomous University of Honduras Press
[Authored Book]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L.(2014). Driving with Neruda to the Fish 'n' Chips. Palmerston North, New Zealand: Haunui Press
[Authored Book]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L.(2014). Xibalbá, Texas. Panama: Technological University of Panama
[Authored Book]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L.(2014). Retratos mal hablados. La Habana, Cuba: Casa de las Americas & Haunui Press
[Authored Book]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L.(2007). Vida y obra de Bulnes, el memorioso. Tegucigalpa, Honduras, C.A.: Universitaria
[Authored Book]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L.(1997). Diario del odio. : University of Miami Iberian Studies Institute
[Authored Book]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L.(1994). El reino de la zarza. San Jose, Costa Rica: Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana
[Authored Book]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L.(1991). Casa vacia. Honduras: Editorial Universitaria
[Authored Book]Authored by: Alvarado, L.

Conference

Alvarado, L. (2013, June). Mrs Howe in Havana: Activismo político y exploraciones sociales en a trip to Cuba. Presented at Congreso Internacional Cuba Transatlántica.. Universidad de La Habana, Cuba.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2012, November). YouTubeing the nation: The online identity of the national anthems of central America. Presented at Arts New England’s Annual Research Symposium. Armidale, NSW.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2011, June). Los himnos (trans)nacionales de Centroamérica: Nacionalismo, inmigración e identidad en YouTube. Presented at II Central American Cultural Studies Conference. Northridge, CA.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2004, April). Modernismo y modernizacion en Centroamerica. Presented at Duodecimo Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamerican. Liverpool, UK.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2004). La Cuba portatil de Jose Maria Heredia. (pp. 116). , Society for Latin American Studies Annual Meeting and Conference Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands: Leiden University, Department of Latin American Studies
[Conference Abstract]Authored by: Alvarado, L.

Other

Alvarado, L. (2021, March). Portable Aotearoa. A Kiwi Poet in Mexico and Central America. Presented at Online Conference. : National Autonomous University of Mexico.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2020, November). Music and Nationalism in Central America. In Open to the public. Presented at Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá -- Zoom. : Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2020, June). Mexico City and Other Real and Imaginary Places. In Open to the public. Presented at Embassy of Mexico in Wellington. : Embassy of Mexico.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2020, May). Poetry Reading and Conversation. In Open to the public. Presented at Zoom. : Dominican Republic International Book Fair.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2020, September). Poetry Reading and Conversation. In Open to the public. Presented at Zoom. : Latin American Poetry Festival.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2020, August). Honduran Poetry: An author's Journey. In Academic staff and students. Presented at Zoom. : National Autonomous University of Honduras.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2020, November). The Life and Works of Brazilian Writer Clarice Lispector. In Open to the public. Presented at Unity Books. : Unity Books and Brazilian Embassy.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2020, April). Bolero: Latin American Music and Modernization. In Latin American Club of Wellington members and guests. Presented at Zoom. : Latin American Club of Wellington.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2016, May). Tango and Bolero: Music, Migration and Modernisation. : Auckland Art Gallery.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2016, September). No More Magical Realism, Gracias!. Presented at Auckland Art Gallery.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L., Aitchison, J., McKergow, F., Plumb, V., & Watson, G. (2015, March). 'Manawatu- Writing in/Writing of.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L., Watson, G.Contributed to by: Watson, G.Edited by: Conroy, T.
Alvarado, L. (2014, September). “Classicism, modernity and provincialism in the works of Honduran poet Edilberto Cardona Bulnes.”. Presented at National Autonomous University of Honduras.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2013). Poetry Selection. (pp. 85 - 88). Casa de las Americas
[Other]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2010). Book review: The shapes of the void. The writing of pain in the poetry of John Gelman. (pp. 637 - 639). Liverpool University Press
[Other]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2008). Book review: “Manlio Argueta. Poesía completa”. (pp. 190 - 193). Cuadernos Americanos
[Other]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2008). Book review: “Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera. Cuentos”. Edición crítica de José María Martínez.. (pp. 225 - 229).
[Other]Authored by: Alvarado, L.
Alvarado, L. (2007). Book review: “Juan Felipe Toruño entre dos mundos”. Edición crítica de Toruño-Haensly, Rhina y Nelson, Ardis L.. (pp. 109 - 111). University of Texas-Pan American
[Other]Authored by: Alvarado, L.

Consultancy and Languages

Languages

  • Spanish
    Last used: All the time
    Spoken ability: Excellent
    Written ability: Excellent

Teaching and Supervision

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Co-supervisor 0 3

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2023 - April-Rose Geers - Doctor of Philosophy
    Transnational Creative Activism: Writing Activism Poetry in Response to an International Human Rights Crisis
  • 2018 - Fahd Hamad A Alqasham - Doctor of Philosophy
    "Virtual social network-mediated English language learning in a Saudi tertiary EFL context: Innovation and agency"
  • 2011 - Van Nguyen - Doctor of Philosophy
    Computer-mediated collaborative learning in a Vietnamese tertiary EFL context

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