Rebecca Biron

Associate Professor of Spanish

Department of Spanish and Portuguese
6072 Dartmouth Hall
Hanover, NH 03755-3511

Office: 313 Dartmouth Hall
2009 Spring office hours:  Wednesday 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm or by appointment
Telephone: (603) 646-2918
Fax: (603) 646-3695
e-mail: rebecca.biron@dartmouth.edu

Ph.D. (Comparative Literature) University of Iowa
B.A. (Comparative Literature and Spanish) University of Georgia

Primary Interests

• Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies
• Literary Theory and Gender Studies
• Mexican Cultural Criticism

Selected Publications

• “Mexico City: the Sewer and the Metro.” Delaware Review of Latin American Studies Vol. 6 No. 1 June 30, 2005.
• “Death in el D.F.: Urban Fantasy in Aguilar Mora, Ramírez, Fuentes, and Blanco.” Special Issue: Mexican Cinema from the Post-Mexican Condition. Discourse 26.1&2 (Winter & Spring 2004): 58-85.
• “Marvel, Monster, Myth: the City in Latin American Literature.” Cruelty and utopia: cities and architectures of Latin America. Ed. Jean-Francois Lejeune. Brussels: CIVA Editions, 2003. 119-133. Also in French: “Monstre, mythe et merveille: la ville dans la litérature latino-américaine.” ruauté et utopie: villes et paysages d’ Amérique latine. Ed. Jean-François Lejeune. Brussels: CIVA Editions, 2003. 119-133.
• “No se trata de la influencia, sino de la injerencia: Octavio Paz y Armonía Somers en diálogo con los modernistas anglo-europeos.” La palabra y el hombre: revista de la Universidad Veracruzana 121 (2002): 73-90.
• “Un hogar insólito: Elena Garro and Mexican Literary Culture.” The Effects of the Nation: Mexican Art in an Age of Globalization. Eds. Carl Good and John V. Waldron. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. 138-159.
• Murder and Masculinity: Violent Fictions of 20^th -Century Latin America. Vanderbilt University Press, 2000.
• “El tiempo femenino y los colonizados.” Pensamiento y crítica: Los discursos de la cultura hoy. Eds. Javier Durán, Rosaura Hernández Monroy, Manuel Medina. Mexico City: Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm, Michigan State, University, University of Louisville, 2000. 301-314.
• “Joking Around with Mexican History: Parody in Ibargüengoitia, Castellanos, and Sainz.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 34 (2000): 479-498.
• “Critical Confrontations: Elena Garro in Mexico.” Torre de Papel 10.2 (2000): 102-117. “Feminist Vision: Ethics and Aesthetics in La Correa Feminista.” Curare: Espacio crítico para las artes 13 (1998): 106-120.
• “Feminist Periodicals and Political Crisis in Mexico: fem, debate feminista and La Correa Feminista in the 1990s.” Feminist Studies 22.1 (1996): 151-169.

Current Projects

• City/Art: Latin American Urban Scene in Latin America (edited essay collection, forthcoming with Duke University Press).
• Defining Obsessions: Modernization to Globalization in 20^th-Century Mexican Culture (book manuscript)
• The Anxiety of Desire: Elena Garro and Mexico’s Modern Dreams (book manuscript)