Rebecca Biron
Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
313 Dartmouth Hall
(603) 646-2918
rebecca.biron@dartmouth.edu
Research Interests
- Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies
- Literary Theory and Gender Studies
- Mexican Cultural Criticism
Publications: Books
- Murder and Masculinity: Violent Fictions of 20th-Century Latin America, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000.
Publications: Edited Volumes
- City/Art: theLatin American Urban Scene in Latin America (in press with release date in 2008, Duke University Press). Essays by Néstor García Canclini, Nelly Richard, George Yúdice, Amy Kaminsky, Marcy Schwartz, José Quiroga, Adrián Gorelik, Nelson Brissac Peixoto, Hugo Achugar, and James HolstonCultures
- Introduction by Rebecca Biron: “Setting the Scene” (42 pp in manuscript form)
Essays Translated
- “What is a City?” (García Canclini, from Spanish—29 pp)
- “Buenos Aires is (Latin) America, too” (Adrián Gorelik, from Spanish—31 pp)
- “City/Art/Politics” (Nelly Richard, from Spanish—15 pp)
- “Latin American Megacities: the New Urban Formlessness” (Brissac Peixoto, from Portuguese—20 pp)
- “On Maps and Malls” (Hugo Achugar, from Spanish—27 pp)
Publications: Articles
- “Fantasías frustradas: la modernidad mexicana en Agustín Yánez y Elena Garro” (forthcoming in special volume on Elena Garro, Lucía Melgar, Ed—28 pp. in manuscript form)
- “Globalización” (forthcoming in Diccionario de Estudios Culturales, Robert Irwin and Mónica Szurmuk, Eds. Editorial Siglo XXI and Ediciones Mora—10 pp. in manuscript form)
- “Quince años con Rosario Castellanos.” Homenaje a Rosario Castellanos. Mexico City: Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de la Mujer, Colegio de México (forthcoming—22 pp in manuscript form).
