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Name
  
Forrest Hylton


Books
  
Evil Hour in Colombia, Revolutionary Horizons

Espiritus guerreros un documental de lina britto y forrest hylton


Forrest Hylton has been a postdoctoral fellow at New York University's Tamiment Library and an Associate Professor of History and Political Science at the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá). He is currently a Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University, and beginning in 2014, he will be a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.

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Books

Hylton is the author of Evil Hour in Colombia, which has been translated into French and Portuguese. With Sinclair Thomson, he is co-author of Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics, which has been translated into French. With Thomson, he is an editor of and contributor to Ya es otro tiempo el presente: Cuatro momentos de insurgencia indígena (La Paz: Muela del Diablo, 2003), now in its third printing in Bolivia.

His book manuscript, Reverberations of Insurgency: Indian Communities, the Federal War of 1899, and the Regeneration of Bolivia, is based on his doctoral thesis, which won the Dean's Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities at New York University in 2010.

Research

Hylton is working on a monographic project entitled Atlantic Borderlands: Colonialism, Commerce, Sovereignty, and Warfare in the Guajira and the Darién, 1727-1831.

Documentary Films

With Lina Britto, Hylton is co-author and co-producer of a documentary, Espíritus Guerreros (2012, 35 mins., Spanish and Wayuunaiki, Universidad de los Andes), about historical memory of Spanish colonization projects in the Guajira peninsula in the Age of Revolution.

Fiction

Hylton's first novel, Vanishing Acts: A Tragedy, was published by City Works Press in 2010, and his short fiction, translations, and excerpts from a novel in progress, entitled Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy, have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail. Excerpts from another novel in progress, Gajes del oficio: El caso Padilla, have been published in Arte y Parte (Riohacha, Colombia).

References

Forrest Hylton Wikipedia