Julio Quintero es profesor asociado de espaol en Grove City College. Se interesa en la teora de la imaginacin y la representacin en la narrativa del siglo diecinueve y veinte en Centro y Suramrica al igual que en la inclusin de formas innovadoras de enseanza del espaol y la cultura hispanoamericana en el saln de clase. Usando la crtica a la narrativa del dictador de inicios de la dcada de los ochenta como punto de inflexin, La mquina dictatorial analiza repeticiones de la figura del dspota como si fueran partes que se aaden a un antiguo mecanismo de representacin. La mquina dictatorial se centra en novelas de Arturo Uslar Pietri, R.H. Moreno Durn, Federico Vegas y Rodrigo Rey Rosa. Quintero es autor de El poeta en la novela hispanoamericana (Universidad de Antioquia, 2010) y artculos y reseas suyas han aparecido en Hispanic Issues, Revista Hispnica Moderna e Hispania , entre otras. ~ Julio Quintero is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Grove City College. He is interested in the theory of imagination and representation in the narrative of the 19th and 20th centuries in Central and South America as well as the inclusion of innovative ways of teaching Spanish and Hispanic American culture in the classroom. Taking the criticism of the dictator's narrative from the early 1980s as a turning point, La mquina dictatorial analyses repetitions of the despotic as if they were parts added to an old mechanism of representation. La mquina dictatorial focuses on novels by Arturo Uslar Pietri, R.H. Moreno Durn, Federico Vegas and Rodrigo Rey Rosa. Quintero is the author of El poeta en la novela hispanoamericana (Universidad de Antioquia, 2010) and his articles and reviews have appeared in Hispanic Issues and Revista Hispnica Moderna e Hispania , among others.