Rebecca Biron

Associate Professor of Spanish

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

Office: 116 Silsby Hall

2013 Spring Office Hours: leading off campus program in Buenos Aires

Telephone: (603) 646-6549
Fax: (603) 646-3695
E-mail: Rebecca.E.Biron@Dartmouth.edu

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

Primary Interests

• 20th-21st Century Latin American Prose and Film
• Literary/Critical Theory
• Mexican Cultural Criticism
• Gender Studies

Selected Publications

• Murder and Masculinity: Violent Fictions of 20th Century Latin America (Vanderbilt University Press, 2000).
• City/Art: The Urban Scene in Latin America, editor. (Duke University Press, 2009).
• Articles on globalization, urbanization, modernization, Mexico City, Mexican authors, and feminism in books and in journals such as: Latin American Literary Review, Discourse, Feminist Studies, and Revista de estudios hispanicos.

Current Projects

• Mexico's Modern Dreams: Elena Garro and the Anxiety of Desire: (Book manuscript)
• Globalization in 21st Century Film: Thinking Through Trilogy (Book manuscript)

Latest Courses

• SPAN 80: Senior Seminar: "Los Modernismos Latinoamericanos"
• SPAN 65: Cien años de soledad
• SPAN 43: Boom: The 20th Century Spanish American Novel
• COLT 10: Introduction to Comparative Literature: Hollywood Adaptions of Latin American Novels
• COLT 42: Cultures of Surveillance
• LALACS 30: Latin American Mega-Cities
• WGST 7: First Year Seminar: "Latin American Masculinities"