Spanish Faculty

BA in Classics (Latin) and Latin American History, University of Arizona-Tucson. MA, MPhil, Columbia University. Special interest in Latin American literature and culture from the 19th century to the present, visual culture, the Latin American Left, and postcolonial theory. Currently completing a dissertation in Hispanic Studies titled, Avant-Garde and Socialist Dreamworlds in Latin America. This study explores socialist utopias in avant-garde cultural productions, including muralism (Diego Rivera), indigenismo (Amauta), and poetry (César Vallejo). Some of the main topics of this research are: the figure of the intellectual and the history of radical ideas in Latin America, public art and state sponsorship, and the autonomy of art at the intersection of politics and aesthetics. Recently published work includes: “This Will Be The Proletarian Revolution: Local and Global Dreamworlds in the Murals at the Secretariat of Public Education” in Seeing in Spanish: From Don Quixote to Daddy Yankee; Twenty-Two Essays on Hispanic Visual Cultures (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). SLC, 2012–

BA, State University of New York-Stony Brook. MA, Queens College. Currently completing a doctorate in Spanish literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; special interests include Golden Age peninsular literature, Latin American literature and culture in general, and fiction. SLC, 2004–

BA, Wheaton College. MA, PhD, University of California-Davis. Areas of specialization: 17th-century Spanish drama, Spanish drama from all periods, erotic literature, performance studies, and Cervantes. Publications: Los corrales de comedias españoles en el siglo XVII: espacios de sensualidad clandestina; Jugando con Eros: El erotismo metadramático en la Llamada de Lauren de Paloma Pedrero; En busca de un teatro comprometido: La entretenida de Miguel de Cervantes bajo el nuevo prisma de la CNTC; El coto privado de Diana: El perro del hortelano, de un texto sexual a un sexo visual; Mirar y desear: la construcción del personaje femenino en El perro del hortelano de Lope de Vega y de Pilar Miró. Co-authored, with Cristina Martínez-Carazo, La risa erótica de Sor Juana en “Los empeños de una casa.” SLC, 2008–

MA, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. PhD, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Special interests in translation theory, the aesthetics of the Baroque, and the connections among contemporary US Latino, Iberian, Spanish American, and Luso-Brazilian fiction writers. Author of Ladrón de mapas (Map Thief), a collection of short stories published in September 2007; Cuentos disperses (Scattered Tales, 2000), a collection of short stories; and Cuaderno de Méjico (Mexican Notebook, 2000), a memoir of a trip to Chiapas. First novel Llámame Brooklyn (Call Me Brooklyn, 2006) won Spain’s Nadal Prize and the City of Barcelona Award for best novel of the year, the Fundación Lara Award for the novel with the best critical reception, the National Critics Award, and best novel of the year in Spain by El Mundo. Recipient of the 2002 Bartolomé March Award for Excellence in Literary Criticism. Currently director of Instituto Cervantes of New York. SLC, 1994–

MA, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. PhD candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Dissertation in progress: a the critical edition of La guerra y batalla campal de los lobos contra los perros (1492) by Alfonso de Palencia. General research interests include the early modern period, with a special focus on humanism and the history of ideas. SLC, 2012–

BA, Universidad de Buenos Aires. MA, PhD Columbia University. Author of numerous books of poetry, three books of essays, two novels, and a book-object, Buenos Aires Tour, in collaboration with Argentine artist Jorge Macchi; translated from French and English the works of several poets, including Louise Labé, Valentine Penrose, Georges Bataille, H.D., Charles Simic, and Bernard Noël. Her work has appeared in the United States in The Paris Review, Circumference, Lumina and Bomb (New York). Recipient of Guggenheim (1994), Rockefeller (1998), Fundación Octavio Paz (2001), The New York Foundation for the Arts (2005), and the Civitella Ranieri (2007) fellowships; the PEN Award for “Best Book of Poetry in Translation” for Islandia; and, in Mexico City, the Siglo XXI International Prize for Essay Writing for her book Galería Fantástica. SLC, 1999–

PhD, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). Born in Havana, Cuba. Author of several works of fiction and nonfiction, including the internationally acclaimed Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire, Rex, and Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia; essays published in numerous publications, including The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The Paris Review. He has been a Fellow at The New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers, was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has taught as a visiting professor at Cornell University and Princeton University, as well as at Sarah Lawrence. SLC, 2012–

BA, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. PhD, Advanced Certificate in Creative Writing in Spanish, New York University. Area of specialization: modern and contemporary Latin American literature, with a special focus on South America. Interests in literature and film; life writing; women, gender, and sexuality studies; crossings among memory, gender, and political violence; transatlantic studies; performance and visual culture. Creator and director of Perufest: Festival of New Peruvian Cinema. Articles, essays, and short stories published in several books and journals. Editor of the anthology, Voces para Lilith, Literatura contemporánea de temática lésbica en Sudamérica (Editorial Estruendomudo: Lima, 2011). SLC, 2011–