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Professor of Women’s Studies and Global Studies
Interim Chair, Department of Women’s Studies

Research Interests

  • Gender and sexuality in Latin American literature and film
  • Women writers in Spain and Latin America
  • Exile and national identity
  • Jewish film in Latin America

Selected Publications

After Exile: Writing the Latin American Diaspora (University of Minnesota Press, 1999)

Reading the Body Politic: Latin American Women Writers and Feminist Criticism (University of Minnesota Press, 1992)

Water Lilies/Flores del agua: Anthology of Spanish Women Writers from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century (University of Minnesota Press, 1995)

Is Academic Feminism Dead?: Theory in Practice, co-edited volume, (NY: New York University Press, 2000)

“Genealogies and Diasporas: A Personal Reading of a Family History” Letras Femeninas 27: 2 (2001), 42-53.

“María de Zayas and the Invention of a Women’s Writing Community,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 35 (2001), 487-509.

Argentina: Stories for a Nation (University of Minnesota Press, in press). Sole author

“Argentina White” solicited for inclusion in At Home and Abroad: Whiteness in Performance, Politics, and Popular Culture, La Vinia Jennings, ed. Tennessee Studies in Literature vol 40. University of Tennessee Press (forthcoming).

“The Jew in the City: Buenos Aires in Jewish Fiction,“ CITY/ART: The Urban Scene in Latin America, ed. Rebecca Biron, Duke University Press, forthcoming.

Hacia un verbo queer,” Revista Iberoamericana. (in press).

“Autobiographical Criticism,” Intertexts 10:1 (Spring 2006), 87-103).

“The Cinema of Witness: Marco Bechis’s Garage Olimpo and the Language of Memory,” Jump/Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 48 (winter 2006) 19 pp. http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/index.html

Reprint "The Real Circle of Iron: Mothers and Children in Four Argentine Novels," special issue of Letras Femeninas 2006

Book Review Diana Niebylski, “Humoring Resistance.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 39:1 (January 2005), 221-222

Courses

  • Out of Europe: History Memory, and Exile
  • Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory
  • Women Write the World