Beatriz Pastor
Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
6072 Dartmouth Hall
Hanover, NH 03755-3511
Office: 219 Dartmouth Hall
2013 Spring Office Hours: Monday 4:00-5:00 p.m., or by appointment
Telephone: (603) 646-2016
Fax: (603) 646-3695
E-mail: Beatriz.Pastor@Dartmouth.edu
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Research Interests
- Latin American Literatures
- Comparative Literature
- Colonial Studies
- Transatlantic Studies
- Utopian Studies
- Language Teaching Pedagogy
Selected Courses Taught at Dartmouth
- SPAN 65: One Hundred Years of Solitude
- COLT 45: The Quest for Utopia
- MATH 5/COLT 65: A Matter of Time
- SPAN 68: Interdisciplinary (Math/Humanities) Study of Time Literature and Ideas in Latin America
- SPAN 66: Latin American Culture: Migrations, Displacement, Exclusion and Exile
- COLT 52: Myths, Literature and Reality in the European Discovery of the New World
- SPAN 73: Literature and Social Protest
- SPAN 37: Borges: Topics in Writing
- SPAN 80: Playing the Colonial Game. Seminar
- COLT 50: Europe and its Cultural Others
- LACS 4: The Many Faces of Latin America
- SPAN 45: Slaves in the Past/Slaves Next Door; a Brown U-Dartmouth Inter-campus course
Awards and Prizes
- 1983: Premio Casa de las Américas en la categoría de ensayo
- 1984: Huntington Best Teacher Award. Dartmouth College
- 1987: Endowed Professorship: Pat and John Rosenwald Professor in the Arts and Sciences
- 2007: Cátedra Alfonso Reyes, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, México
Selected Publications
- Roberto Arlt y la rebelion alienada. Hispamérica, 1981.
- El Discurso Narrativo de la Conquista: Mitificacion y Emergencia. Colección Premio Casa de las Américas, 1983. Second Revised Edition: Ediciones del Norte, 1988. Third edition: July 1998.
- El segundo descubrimiento: Discursos narrativos de la conquista de América. New revised edition with EDHASA. Published June 2008.
- The Armature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the discovery of America, 1492-1589. Stanford University Press, 1992. Paperback edition 1994.
- El jardín y el peregrino. Ensayos sobre el pensamiento utópico latinoamericano: 1942-1700. Revised and expanded edition. Mexico, UNAM. April 1999.
Forthcoming
- A Matter of Time (With Dwight Lahr). Key College Press. Scheduled for publication 2012.
- Lope de Aguirre y la expedición de Ursúa a el Dorado, Critical annotated edition. Clásicos Castalia. Scheduled for publication 2010.
