Field-Of-Study: Literary Studies

José Quiroga was born in Havana, Cuba, and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received a B.A. in English and Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures from Boston University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in Spanish American Literature. Before joining the Emory University faculty in 2002, he taught at The George Washington University

As Assistant Professor in the Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR), Mónica Bernabé has specialized in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American Literature. Since 2005, when she received her Ph.D. from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), she has been a guest professor at this university as well as the Université Lumiére

Renowned essayist and film critic Ana Amado was born in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. She studied political science at the Universidad Católica de Santiago del Estero, taking supplemental courses in 1969 at Harvard and other Boston-area universities with the support of the Fundación Harriet-Argentina, before finishing her undergraduate degree at her home institution in 1970.

Widely esteemed as one of the most insightful and original writers and academics in Perú today, Víctor Vich is an Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and a Principal Investigator at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP). His interdisciplinary approach to understanding Perú’s complex literary, cultural, and political histories and current

Nora Domínguez is an Associate Professor of Literary Theory at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and a major force in the shaping of Argentine literary and cultural debate.  She is well known for her analyses of nineteenth and twentieth century literature and studies of gender and narrative fiction. De donde vienen los niños. Maternidad y escriturea en la

Associate Professor Florencia Garramuño joined the faculty of the University of San Andrés in Buenos Aires in 1999 and became the founding director of its program in Brazilian Culture in 2004. Before coming to San Andrés, Ms. Garramuño taught at the University of Buenos Aires and Temple University in Philadelphia.  She received her Ph.D. in

Adriana Rodríguez-Pérsico is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and, since 2005, an Independent Investigator for CONICET. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Salvador in 1975 and her Ph.D. from UBA in 1992. Her dissertation, entitled Un huracán llamado progreso. Utopía

Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia is Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland. Before joining the faculty at College Park in 2001, Mr. Quintero-Herencia held an appointment in the Department of Hispanic Studies of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, as an assistant (1995-99) and then associate (1999-2001) professor. During