Professor of Spanish
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
6072 Dartmouth Hall
Hanover, NH 03755-3511
Office: 342 Dartmouth Hall
2008 Fall office hours: by appointment
Telephone: 603-646-3715
Fax: 603-646-3695
e-mail: Silvia.D.Spitta@dartmouth.edu
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 1989.
M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 1983.
B.A. General Literature, University of California, San Diego, 1979.
20th-century Latin American and US Latino literature
Hemispheric Americas Studies
Material Culture
Border Writing and Culture
Indigenismo
Spanish 1: Beginning Spanish
Spanish 2: Introductory Spanish
Spanish 3: Intermediate Spanish
Spanish 6: Language Study Abroad
Spanish 7: Latino/a American Female icons
Spanish 8: Writing and Speaking: A Cultural Approach for Speakers of Spanish
Spanish 9: Writing and Reading: A Cultural Approach
Spanish 31: Introduction to Hispanic Literature II: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Spanish 32: Introduction to Hispanic Literature III: The Twentieth Century
Spanish 37: Texts and Contexts: Topics in Writing
Spanish 72: Latin American and Latina Women: Gender, Culture, Literature (Spring 07)
Spanish 73: Literature and Social Protest: Alienation, Dictatorship, Revolution and Disillusionment in Twentieth-Century Latin America
Spanish 74: Old World, New World: Tradition and Change in Contemporary Latin American Culture
Spanish 77: Hispanic Literature in the USA
Spanish 79: Latino/a Literature: Between Literary Traditions, Languages and Cultures
Spanish 80: Seminar: Latin American Literature (Mestizaje, Misplaced Objects)
Spanish 89: Culminating Experience
Comparative Literature 7: X-ing: The US-Mexico Border
Comparative Literature 50: Europe and its Cultural Others (Theories of Colonialism)
Comparative Literature 52/WGST 40: Latin American Literatures (The Borderlands: Latino/a Writers in the United States)
Comparative Literature 67/WGST 40 Literature and Women’s/Gender Studies (Women’s Identity in Migration)
Comparative Literature 105 Graduate Seminar
Women’s and Gender Studies: 20 Roots of Feminism
Women’s and Gender Studies 40: Women’s Identities in Migration
Women’s and Gender Studies 40: The Borderlands: Latina Writers in the U.S.
Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll: Latinos in the 60s
Misplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas (Under contract with University of Texas Press.)
Between Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America. Houston: Rice University Press, 1995. (Paperback edition: College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2006.)
Más allá de la ciudad letrada: Crónicas y vivencias urbanas. Co-edited with Boris Muñoz. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Biblioteca de América, 2003.
“Lima the Horrible: The Cultural Politics of Theft.” Forthcoming in PMLA (January 2007).
“The State of Latino Studies.” Latino Studies. Eds. Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez and Nancy Saporta Sternbach (accepted).
“The Contingencies of Life and Reading: Para Gloria.” PMLA 121.1 (2006): 292-294.
“Sandra Ramos: La vida no cabe en una maleta.” Imaginarios Femeninos en Latinoamérica. Eds. Alicia Ortega and Susana Rosano. Special issue of Revista Iberoamericana LXXI-210 (2005): 35-53. Early version of this essay was posted by Sandra Ramos on her website. http://www.art-havana.com/sandra/
“Un altar a la presencia: Los objetos hallados, la fotografía, la memoria y la identidad latina en EEUU.” Hibridismos culturales: la literatura y cultura de los latinos en los Estados Unidos. Eds. Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez and Frances Aparicio. Revista Iberoamericana LXXI-212 (2005): 745-762.
“Más allá de la ciudad letrada. Prefacio." In: Más allá de la ciudad letrada: Crónicas y vivencias urbanas. Eds. Boris Muñoz and Silvia Spitta. Pittsburgh: Biblioteca de América, 2003. 7-23.
“De búfalos y cucarachas: Vasconcelos, Oscar Zeta Acosta y el mestizaje en Estados Unidos.”Estudios 9.17 (2001): 175-192.
“Of Brown Buffaloes, Cockroaches and Others: Mestizaje North and South of the Río Bravo.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos XXXV.2 (2001): 333-346.
“Desdoblamientos calibanescos: Hacia lo complejo.” Roberto Fernández Retamar y los estudios latinoamericanos. Eds. Elzbieta Sklodowska and Ben A. Heller. Pittsburgh: Serie Críticas, 2000. 275-298.
“Traición y transculturación: los desgarramientos del pensamiento latinoamericano.” Angel Rama y los estudios latinoamericanos. Ed. Mabel Moraña. Pittsburgh: Serie Críticas, 1997. 173-192
“De lo có(s)mico: José Vasconcelos en México y Aztlán.” Formaciones sociales e identidades culturales en la literatura hispanoamericana: Ensayos en homenaje de Juan Armando Epple. Ed. Rosamel Benavides. Chile: Ediciones Barba de Palo, 1997. 193-202.
“José María Arguedas: Hacia un lenguaje y un mestizo inmensamente abyectos.” Memorias de JALLA Tucumán 1995. Tucumán: Instituto de Historia y Pensamiento Argentinos, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, 1997. 566-574.
“The Spice of Life, the Taste of Diversity: Latino/a American Poetic Recipes and Iconoclastic Prayers." The Americas Review 24.1-2 (1996): 197-226.
“La traición de la tradición. ¡Qué pinche ser Malinche! Ensayo de una crítica feminista de la transculturación a raíz de un cuento de Elena Garro.” Estudios 4.8 (1996): 157-168.
“Hacia una nueva lectura del mestizo en la obra de José María Arguedas.” Hispamérica XXIV.72 (1995): 15-26. Reprinted as: “José María Arguedas: Un mestizo y un lenguaje inmensamente abyectos.” Universidad y Pueblo 5. 7 (1995): 89-93.
“La abyección del mestizo en la obra de José María Arguedas.” Tradición y actualidad de la literatura iberoamericana. Actas del XXX Congreso de Literatura Iberoamericana. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1995. 101-109.
“Transculturation, the Caribbean, and the Cuban-American Imaginary.” Tropicalizations. Eds. Frances Aparicio and Suzanne Chávez Silverman. Hanover, NH: UPNE, 1996. 160-180.
“Gloria Anzaldúa: The New Mestiza Rides/Writes.” Gender, Self, and Society: Proceedings of the IV. International Conference on the Hispanic Cultures of the United States. Ed. Renate von Barderleben. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1993. 75-85.
“Chamanismo y cristiandad: una lectura de la lógica intercultural de los Naufragios de Cabeza de Vaca.” Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana XIX.38 (1993): 317-330.
Book project:
Cultures of Theft
