Osvaldo Oyola

Osvaldo Oyola: After a nearly 10-year detour into the world of new media following receiving his B.A. from SUNY New Paltz in 1997, Osvaldo Oyola completed his M.A. in English at Brooklyn College in 2008. After putting aside his lifelong dream of being a subway conductor for the MTA, Osvaldo began the doctoral English program at SUNY Binghamton. He hopes to continue his study of contemporary American literature with a focus on how many contemporary novelists collapse the distinction between so-called “high” and “low” literature in their work by referencing an assumed literacy with both popular culture and canonical works. In his master’s thesis, “Collection, Identity and the Narratives of Brooklyn,” he explored how the unfixed and non-linear narratives of superhero comic books inform concepts of authentic identity in the gentrified landscape of Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude.

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