Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo completed an MPhil thesis at Wolfson College, Oxford on the construction of national identity in Gabriel García Márquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude". He holds a double honors degree in English and Spanish literature from St. Thomas University in Canada. In 2005, Matthew presented a paper on defining magical realism as a narrative mode in works by Jorge Luis Borges, García Márquez, and Alejo Carpentier at a postcolonial studies conference. His graduate studies at Oxford were supported by a Rhodes Scholarship.
Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo completed an MPhil thesis at Wolfson College, Oxford on the construction of national identity in Gabriel García Márquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude". He holds a double honors degree in English and Spanish literature from St. Thomas University in Canada. In 2005, Matthew presented a paper on defining magical realism as a narrative mode in works by Jorge Luis Borges, García Márquez, and Alejo Carpentier at a postcolonial studies conference. His graduate studies at Oxford were supported by a Rhodes Scholarship.
Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo completed an MPhil thesis at Wolfson College, Oxford on the construction of national identity in Gabriel García Márquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude". He holds a double honors degree in English and Spanish literature from St. Thomas University in Canada. In 2005, Matthew presented a paper on defining magical realism as a narrative mode in works by Jorge Luis Borges, García Márquez, and Alejo Carpentier at a postcolonial studies conference. His graduate studies at Oxford were supported by a Rhodes Scholarship.
Matthew's MPhil thesis considered the construction of national identity in Garcia
Marquez's "Cien años de soledad." He completed his undergraduate studies in English literature and Spanish literature (double honours) at St. Thomas University (New Brunswick, Canada). In April 2005 Matthew presented a paper entitled 'Defining Magical Realism as an Aesthetic Narrative Mode in the Works of Borges, García Márquez and Carpentier' at the conference Aesthetics and Politics in Postcolonial Studies. Matthew's graduate studies in Oxford were assisted by a Rhodes Scholarship.