Associate Professor, Coordinator of Latin American & Iberian Studies

I have taught in the Haverford College Department of Spanish since 1991. Before that, I was an instructor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the History and Literature Concentration at Harvard. I received my B.A. in Sociology at Kenyon College, my M.A. at Vanderbilt University in Spanish Literature, and an A.M. and Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University, (1992) with a dissertation on the captivity narratives of the Spanish American Colonial period.

[ Research and Writing Interests ]

My scholarly training and focus is in Colonial Spanish American Literature and Historiography. I wrote my dissertation on captivity narratives, particularly on the Cautiverio feliz, a Seventeenth-Century text written by a Chilean-born Spanish soldier captured by the so-called Araucanian Indians. I am also interested in Nineteenth-Century Latin American political and literary thought; Ethnic, Race, and National Identity in Spanish America; Historical Fictions; Literature of Exile; Popular Culture; Music and Politics. I am also interested in Creative Fiction Writing.

My first novel, "Muriendo por la dulce patria mía", was published by Planeta in 1998. The book is available at the Haverford College Bookstore and at Amazon Books. You can access an interview by Verónica Cortínez in Mester Literary Journal, of UCLA, in pdf format.

You may also find some articles and reviews:

Proyecto Sherezade at Princeton University has included one of my short stories: "Acabo de mundo", in their site.

Another short-fiction piece, "Another Chance: Postal de Cool New Shork", can be found at Escáner Cultural.

You can access some opinion columns that have appeared in Revista El Sábado of El Mercurio and El Mostrador of Santiago, Chile in 2002-03:

[ Courses ]

[ Scholarly Publication Sample ]