Hector Melo, who completed his doctoral dissertation under the direction of Prof. Carlos A. Jauregui, has secured a tenure track position as an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the prestigious Carleton College, one of the best colleges in the country (in the top 10 National Liberal Arts Colleges and ranked #1 in Best Undergraduate Teaching). The dissertation, titled “Rebeliones urbanas: narrativas sobre la violencia popular latinoamericana,” examines a series of literary and cinematic representations of riots and political unrest in four major cities in Latin America during the twentieth century. In this work, Hector maintains that the novels, movies, and essays he studies defy elitist regimes of representation of the masses, and show how popular violence presents an aesthetic, epistemological, and ideological challenge. Hector specializes in 20th-Century Latin American Literature and Culture; he is a multifaceted scholar with a variety of interests that include Cuban cinema and the historical novel as well as early modern and colonial literature.