About Salvador Lopez Rivera

I am presently a Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Loyola University Maryland. My academic interests include contemporary French culture and literature, gender studies, and critical theory.

Salvador Lopez Rivera is a Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Loyola University Maryland.

NBN Episodes hosted by Salvador:

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…