About Salvador Lopez Rivera

I am presently a Cultural Studies Lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. I've previously held an appointment as a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at Loyola University Maryland. I earned a Ph.D. in French Literature from Washington University in Saint Louis in 2024. My academic interests include, broadly, contemporary French culture and literature, gender studies, place and environmental studies, and critical theory.

Salvador Lopez Rivera is a Cultural Studies Lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

NBN Episodes hosted by Salvador:

Julie Singer, "Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

June 14, 2025

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Julie Singer

A wide-ranging study of the rich questions raised by speaking infants in medieval French literature. Medieval literature is full of strange moments wh…

Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

February 25, 2025

Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema

Florence Martin

Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) unfolds and analyzes the work of Moroccan director, producer, and scriptwriter Farida …

Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

November 22, 2024

Speculative Whiteness

Jordan S. Carroll

Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a hig…

Morgane Cadieu, "On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

September 10, 2024

On Both Sides of the Tracks

Morgane Cadieu

An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move between social classes. Social cli…

Polo B. Moji, "Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives" (Routledge, 2022)

May 31, 2024

Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives

Polo B. Moji

Polo B. Moji's book Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Routledge, 2022) approaches the study of AfroEurope …

Robert Payne, "Reimagining the Family: Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature" (Peter Lang, 2021)

July 23, 2023

Reimagining the Family

Robert Payne

Robert Payne's Reimagining the Family: Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature (Peter Lang, 2021) is the first book-length study of repres…

Macs Smith, "Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City" (MIT Press, 2021)

April 29, 2023

Paris and the Parasite

Macs Smith

The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites. A…

Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)

February 25, 2023

Code

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan traces the shared intellectual and political history of computer scientists, cyberneticists, anthropologists, linguists, a…