Dr. Arcadio Antonio Bolaños

• Assistant Professor of Spanish
• BA in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• MA in Spanish at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
• PhD program in the Spanish Department at the University of California, Davis

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Contact Information

• Department: Language & Cultural Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology
• Office: Crabbe Library, room 111A
• Mailing Address: 103 Libraries Complex
• Email: Arcadio.BolanosAcevedo@eku.edu

Bio

Arcadio Bolaños was born in Lima, Peru, and spent most of his childhood surrounded by thousands of books; thanks to his father’s library, he became an avid reader but also an aspiring writer at a young age. He obtained his BA in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In the past seven years, Bolaños has been writing comic book scripts, and his stories have been published both in print and digitally. He completed his MA in Spanish at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, where he wrote a thesis on failure and sexual frustration in the short stories of Julio Ramón Ribeyro. Bolaños was in the PhD program in the Spanish Department at the University of California, Davis. His dissertation was about masculinities and alternative sexualities in contemporary Peruvian narrative. Currently he is a visiting assistant professor at EKU.

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