Santiago serves on the editorial board of six scholarly journals, including Hispanic Journal, Chasqui, and Delaware Review of Latin American Studies. He has evaluated book manuscripts for university presses (Bucknell, SUNY, U of Arizona, Palgrave) and grant proposals for organizations and institutions such as the NEH, Guggenheim Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Swiss National Science Foundation, City University of New York, and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Santiagoâs research and teaching interests include historical fiction and film, transatlantic studies, Latin American culture, and comparative literature. He has conducted funded research in Havana (2006) and Buenos Aires (2007), and was recently selected to the Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster.
research interests
Contemporary Spanish American Fiction Film Studies Historical Fiction and Film Postmodernism and Globalization Literature, Film, and Propaganda Transatlantic Studies