Faculty note: Gabriel T. Saxton-Ruiz

Gabriel T. Saxton-Ruiz, assistant professor of Humanistic Studies and Spanish, presented a paper at the recent II Congreso Internacional de Ficción Criminal: El género negro en la era de la globalización (1990-2010) at the University of León in Spain. This is an international conference on detective (“criminal”) fiction and violence in film. (Género negro generally refers to noir fiction or hard-boiled detective fiction). The title of the paper he presented is “Novela negra con peruanos: Abril rojo de Santiago Roncagliolo y el doble código.” The paper’s title is a play on the famous novel Novela negra con argentinos (1990) by Luisa Valenzuela – in English the presentation would be “Noir Novel with Peruvians: Santiago Roncagliolo’s Red April and double-coding.”