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Guillermo De Los Reyes, Ph.D.

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Department Chair
Associate Professor, Latin American Culture and Literature
Department of Hispanic Studies 
Associate Director, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Faculty in Residence, 2011-2016

Office: 
Phone: (713) 743-3716
Fax: (713) 743-0935
jdelosreyes@uh.edu
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Dr. Guillermo De Los Reyes is an Associate Professor of Latin American Cultures and Literatures and Director of Undergraduate Studies. He also serves as Associate Director of Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and he is a Faculty-in-Residence since 2011.  He holds a Ph.D. and a M.A. from the  (2004, 1999) and a M.A. and B.A. from the  (1997, 1994). Dr. De Los Reyes鈥 research interests are: Colonial Mesoamerica; gender, sexuality, and queer theory; Latin American cultural studies; secret and fraternal societies; and policy studies.

Dr. De Los Reyes is the author of Herencias Secretas: Masoner铆a, pol铆tica y sociedad en M茅xico (2009: Benem茅rita Universidad Aut贸noma de Puebla) and is currently working on a book-length project entitled: 鈥淓l pecado nefando:鈥 Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Colonial Mexico. Prof. De Los Reyes is member of the Board of Directors of two international organizations:  , Honor Society for International Scholars, where he serves as Director of Membership and, where he is Vice-President for publications. In addition he is a Life Member of the  (LASA) where he is Secretary/Treasurer of the Sexualities Section. Dr. De los Reyes serves as a member of two Editorial Boards: and . Dr. De Los Reyes is Editor-in-Chief of the Sexuality, Gender & Policy Studies Journal .

Education

  • Ph.D in 鈥 University of Pennsylvania (2004)
  • M.A. in Folklore and Folklife 鈥 University of Pennsylvania (1999)
  • M.A. in American Studies 鈥 Universidad de las Am茅ricas-Puebla (1997)
  • B.A. in International Relations鈥 Universidad de las Am茅ricas-Puebla (1994)

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Colonial Latin American Literatures and cultures
  • Mexican culture, Pre-Hispanic to present
  • Popular Culture and Folklore in the Americas
  • Cultural Studies: gender, sexuality, queer theory, identity, nationalism
  • Business Spanish and Cross-cultural communication
  • Voluntary Organizations, Fraternal Orders, and Democracy

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

  • Public Speaking
  • Spanish American Literature from 1492-1850
  • Written and Oral Communication in Spanish
  • Spanish for Business and Trade
  • Spanish for the Global Professions
  • Spanish American Culture and Civilization
  • Introduction to Hispanic Literature
  • Colonial discourse

Graduate

  • Colonial Latin American Discourse
  • Research Methods
  • Mexican and Chicano/a Cultural Studies
  • Gender, Race and Class in Colonial Latin America
  • Modern Spanish-American Narrative to 1950

Publications

Books

  • Herencias Secretas: Masoner铆a, pol铆tica y sociedad en M茅xico. Puebla, M茅xico: Benem茅rita Universidad Aut贸noma de Puebla-Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales, 2009.
  • Abominable Sins: Rethinking and Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in Colonial Mexico (1542鈥1750). In process
  • Freemasonry in Mexico: The Secret Heritage (translation of Herencias secretas:  Masoner铆a, pol铆tica y sociedad en M茅xico). Washington, D. C., Westphalia Press & Benem茅rita Universidad Aut贸noma de Puebla-Facultad de Derecho  y Ciencias Sociales, (Forthcoming 2024). 

Edited Books/Journals

  • Female Emancipation and Masonic Membership: An Essential Collection,  Westphalia Press, Washington, DC, 2023.
  • 鈥淪exuality, Gender and Health鈥, Special Joint-Issue, World Medical & Health  Policy, & Sexuality, Gender and Policy, co-editor with Bonnie Stabile. Spring 2022.  
  • 鈥淕ender and Freemasonry: An Introduction鈥. Special Issue: REHMLAC: Revista de  Estudios Hist贸ricos de la Masoner铆a Latinoamericana y Caribe帽a.  (December 2020-April 2021.) 
  • 鈥淟atin American Freemasonry: An Historiographical Perspective.鈥 Special Issue:  Ritual, Secrecy, and Civil Society Journal. Fall 2017. 
  • Getting the Third Degree: Fraternalism, Freemasonry and History. Westphalia  Press, Washington, DC, 2016. (co-edited with Paul Rich)  
  • Mexico en 1554. by Francisco Cervantes de Salazar. Preface and Edition,  Westphalia Press, Washington, DC, 2015.
  • L'Enfant and the Freemasons. H. Paul Caemmerer's The Life of Pierre Charles L'Enfant. Introduction and Edition, Westphalia Press, Washington, DC, 2013.
  • Civil Society and Democratization. California and London: Sage Periodicals Press 1999, (co-edited with Isidro Morales and Paul Rich)
  • Policy Review Journal 15 (Summer/Autumn 1998) Special Issue: Latin America and Policy Studies (co-edited with Paul Rich)
  • American Behavioral Scientist 40 (June/July 1997) Special Issue: United States-Mexican Interaction: Shifting Cultures and Identities (co-edited with Paul Rich).
  • Journal of American Culture 20.2 (1997) Special Issue (co-edited with Paul Rich).
  • NAFTA Revisited: Expectations and Realities. The Annals of the American Academy of Political Sciences 551 (March 1997) Special Issue (co-edited with Paul Rich).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters (selected list)

  • 鈥淣ew perspectives on Latin American Freemasonry: three case studies.鈥 Routledge  Studies in the History of the Americas (book series) London: Routledge,  2022.
  • 鈥淟a d茅cada de 1990: la figura de sor Juana se agiganta cada vez m谩s.鈥 La recepci贸n  literaria de Sor Juana In茅s de la Cruz y la cr铆tica: un siglo de apreciaciones  cr铆ticas (1960-2000). Edited by Rosa Perelmuter. New York: IDEA, 2021.  
  • 鈥淭he Folklorization of Queer Theory: Public Spaces, Pride, and Gay Neoliberalism.鈥 Advancing Folkloristics, Indiana University Press, 2021 (co authored with Cory Thorne).  
  • 鈥淪ecularizaci贸n, Nacionalismo y Escuela de Formaci贸n pol铆ticas: Las logias  mas贸nicas en el M茅xico postrevolucionario.鈥 Historia M铆nima de la  Masoner铆a en M茅xico. Zacatecas, Mexico: Texere Editores, 2021  
  • 鈥淧roblem谩tica racial, de sexualidad y de g茅nero: encrucijadas de la masoner铆a  norteamericana en el siglo XXI鈥. Exclusi贸n. 300 a帽os: masoner铆as y  masones, 1717-2017, Vol. 4, Yvan Pozuelos, Ricardo Mart铆nez and Rogelio  Aragon, Eds. Mexico City: Palabra de Cl铆o: historiadores mexicanos, (co author Paul Rich), 2018  
  • 鈥淚ntroducci贸n: Exclusi贸n鈥. Exclusi贸n. 300 a帽os: masoner铆as y masones, 1717-2017,  Vol. 4, Yvan Pozuelos, Ricardo Mart铆nez and Rogelio Aragon, Eds. Mexico  City: Palabra de Cl铆o: historiadores mexicanos, 2018. 
  • Masoner铆a y la sociedad civil: el caso de Estado Unidos. Migraciones. 300 a帽os:  masoner铆as y masones, 1717-2017, Vol. 1, Yvan Pozuelos, Ricardo Mart铆nez and Rogelio Arag贸n, Eds. Mexico City: Palabra de Cl铆o:  historiadores mexicanos, 2017. 
  • 鈥淟a influencia de organizaciones no democr谩ticas en la promoci贸n de la democracia:  el caso de las logias mas贸nicas en M茅xico y Estados Unidos.鈥 La masoner铆a  hispano-lusa y Americana: De los absolutismos a las democracias (1815- 2015). Jos茅 Miguel Delgado Idarreta e Yv谩n Pozuelos, editors. Zaragoza:  Centro de estudios Hist贸ricos de la Masoner铆a Espa帽ola (CEHME), n. de  Paginas, 261-271, 2017.
  • 鈥淒e masoner铆a, salvamentos y otras lealtades fraternales: el rescate de Porfirio D铆az  por un hermano mas贸n,鈥 REHMLAC: Revista de Estudios Hist贸ricos de la  Masoner铆a Latinoamericana y Caribe帽a. 7 (2): 181-201 (December 2015-April  2016)
  • 鈥淎 Mexican Virgin: The uses of Symbolism, Folklore and Ethnicity in the Creation of Mexican Identity.鈥 Tla-melaua, Revista de Ciencias Sociales 35, Puebla: BUAP, 2014.
  • 鈥淐olonial Confinement, Confession and Resistance in 脕ngeles del abismo by Enrique Serna,鈥 In Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico, Oswaldo Estrada & Anna Nogar, eds. Phoenix: Arizona University Press, 2014. (co-author Josu茅 Guti茅rrez-Gonz谩lez)
  • 鈥淒eseo sexual, migraci贸n y pertenencia: Apropiaci贸n y mexicanizaci贸n de espacios LGBT en Houston, Texas.鈥 En Migrantes all谩 y ac谩. Mujeres y hombres en Estados Unidos y el noreste de M茅xico, Oscar Hern谩ndez y Mar铆a Elena Ramos, eds., Universidad Aut贸noma de Nuevo Le贸n-Miguel 脕ngel Porr煤a, M茅xico, 2014.
  • 鈥淔reemasonry and Civil Society: The Case of the United States/ Masoner铆a y sociedad civil鈥 El caso de los Estados Unidos.鈥 Revista de Estudios Hist贸ricos de la Masoner铆a Latinoamericana y Caribe帽a. (ISSN 1659-4223) Special Issue UCLA-Grand Lodge of California, pp. 193-214 & 191-212.
  • Gender, Sexual, and Racial Trouble: The Crossroads of North American Freemasonry in the Twenty-First Century. Revista de Estudios Hist贸ricos de la Masoner铆a Latinoamericana y Caribe帽a, 4 (2), 156-170.鈥 (co-author Paul Rich)*
  • 鈥Curas, Dones y Sodomitas鈥: Sexual Moral Discourses and Illicit Sexualities among Priests in Colonial Mexico,鈥 Anuario de Estudios Americanos, June 2010, pp. 53-76.*
  • 鈥淓l impacto de la masoner铆a en el discurso secular y liberal de M茅xico鈥. En Secularizaci贸n del Estado y la sociedad. Patricia Galeana, ed. Siglo XXI Editores-Senado de la Rep煤blica Mexicana, M茅xico, DF, 2010.*
  • 鈥淕茅nero, educaci贸n y socializaci贸n: Una propuesta de pol铆ticas p煤blicas con perspectiva de g茅nero. RNP: Revista de Administraci贸n P煤blica Vol, XLIV, No. 3 (September-December, 2009), pp. 125-142.
  • 鈥淭he Cross and the Compass: The Influence of the Catholic Religion and Masonry in the Formation of the Mexican Political Thought鈥, Hispanic Religious Thought, Vol. III, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, pp 8-24.*
  • 鈥淎 Brief History of Male (Homo) Sexuality in Colonial Spanish America.鈥 Journal of Homosexuality Vol. 51 (3): 2006, pp. 249-266.*
  • 鈥淭ranslating, Smuggling, and Recovering Books in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Thomas Smith Webb鈥檚 El Monitor de los Masones Libres: 贸, Illustraciones sobre la Masoner铆a.鈥 In The Critical Importance of Region: Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project Vol. VI. Antonia Casta帽eda and Gabriel Mel茅ndez, eds. Houston: Arte P煤blico Press, 2006, pp. 143-158.*
  • 鈥淥pus Dei and Mexico: Civil but Sinister.鈥 Review of Policy Research, Volume 22, Number 1 (2005): 93-101* (co-author Paul Rich)
  • 鈥淯pstaging the Masons: The Promise Keepers and Fraternal Orders.鈥 Ed. Dane S. Claussen Jefferson The Promise Keepers: Essays on Masculinity and Christianity, NC: McFarland & Co., 2000, 29-41 (with Paul Rich)

Affiliations

  • , Honorary Society for International Scholars (PBD)