Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez published an article “Los hombres y sus barbas: visibilidad y atenuación del deseo homosexual en ‘Tercer Fausto’ de Salvador Novo” [“Men and their Beards: Visibility and Attenuation of Homosexual Desire in Salvador Novo’s ‘The Third Faust’.”] in the November issue of Chasqui, journal of Latin American Literature 45.2. The article is an exploration of how a Mexican playwright manages the visibility of homosexual themes in one of his plays, and how such visibility intersects with the development and growth of Mexico City in the first half of the twentieth century.