Synopsis:
I was born in Havana, Cuba, where I spent my formative years. I then moved to the United States, and completed my high school and college education in Boston, took a master's degree at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida and a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I joined the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Carolina in 1978, and am a Professor of Spanish and Assistant Dean of Academic Advising and Director of the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program. I have held several fellowships, including two Pogue Foundation Research Leaves and a National Endowment for the Humanities summer grant. My first book, Noche intelectual, a study of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's Primero sueno, was published by the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico Press in 1982, and my second, Los Limites de la Femineidad en Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: estrategias retoricas y recepcion literaria, was published in Madrid/Frankfurt by Iberoamericana/Vervuert in 2004. Since then I have continued to think and write about Sor Juana and other writers of Colonial Spanish America, and am currently at work on a book-length study of the description of nature in epic poems written in Spanish America in the 16th and 17th centuries. I teach a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses, expecially those dealing with Colonial Spanish American literature, contemporary Spanish American narrative, and Latino literature and culture.

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Colonial Spanish-American Literature Contemporary Spanish-American Narrative; Latino Literature