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Contact Information

4150A Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Bldg.
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801
PhD Candidate
Fellow
TA

Education

  • PhD. Hispanic Literatures and Cultures - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (in progress)
  • MA. Literature - Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 2015
  • BA. Literary Studies - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia, 2011

Grants

  • Timothy J. Rogers Memorial Summer Fellowship (Summer 2024)
  • Whitten Fellowship, CLACS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023
  • Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Declined), 2023

Awards and Honors

  • Best Graduate Student Paper Competition 2023-2024, Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
  • Conference Participation Award from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2023)                                         
  • Conference Travel Award, Graduate College, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2022)
  • Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities and Arts (2021)

 

Courses Taught

SPAN 122 - Beginner Spanish 

SPAN 130 - Intermediate Spanish

SPAN 254 - Approaches to Culture

SPAN 232 - Spanish in the Community 

SPAN 326 - Latin American Cultural Studies II "El cuerpo latinoamericano"

Additional Campus Affiliations

Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory 

Recent Publications

  • Mora Moreno, Sergio Antonio (2022). La desnaturalización de la Violencia a partir de dos cuentos de Hernando Téllez. In Jarrín B, H., Bautista-cabrera, Á., & Delgado, H, Instantáneas del cuento latinoamericano (pp. 317–326). essay, Universidad ICESI, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Universidad del Valle. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18046/EUI/ee.2.2022
  • Mora Moreno, Sergio Antonio, and Jorge Mario Sánchez Noguera. “El Eros amenazado: cuerpos y territorios ganados en Un mundo huérfano de Giuseppe Caputo.” Revista Letral, no. 24, 24, July 2020, pp. 120–38. https://doi.org/10.30827/rl.v0i24.11544.
  • Mora Moreno, Sergio Antonio, et al. Escritura en la universidad: redactar y enseñar textos académicos. Universidad Santiago de Cali, 2020.
  • Noguera, Jorge Mario Sánchez, and Sergio Antonio Mora Moreno. “El hogar imposible: la experiencia del desarraigo en Tiempo muerto de Margarita García Robayo.” Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, no. 46, 46, 2020, pp. 37–54. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.n46a02.
  • Mora Moreno, Sergio Antonio. “Carne y nada más: la configuración del discurso cárnico en La Carne de René de Virgilio Piñera.” La Palabra, no. 30, 30, July 2017, pp. 243–59. https://doi.org/10.19053/01218530.n30.2017.6203.