Department Affiliations
- Spanish & Portuguese
- American Studies
- Advanced Feminist Studies
- Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Specialties
- African and Caribbean writing in French and English
- indigenous revitalization movements and writing
- issues of colonialism, race and nationalism
- Latin-American literature and culture
- Mexico
- the Caribbean
- women's writing
- feminism and feminist theory
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: Comparative Literature (Spanish, French, English), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 1998
- B.A.: Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 1979
Publications
- Co-editor of Post-Colonial, Emergent, and Indigenous Feministms, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 20:4. , June 1995.
- Prospero's Daughter: The Prose of Rosario Castellanos. University of Texas Press, 1995.
- Pre-Columbian Literatures in Mexico. , 1994.
Courses Taught
- Span 3104W - Analysis and Interpretation of Texts
- Span 3222 - Discourses of Nation Building and Modernization in Latin America
- Span 3972W - Graduation Seminar
- Span 5528 - Popular Literary Consciousness: 1900-1950
- Span 8900-Seminar: Feminist Approaches
- Span 5525-Caribbean Literature
- Span 3512-Latin American Cultures
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