Lorgia García-Peña

Resident/Faculty Advisor of La Casa and Lecturer of Spanish from 2007 to 2008

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

Telephone: (603) 646-2140
Fax: (603) 646-3695

Ph.D. in the Latino/a Studies Program at the University of Michigan.
Dissertation: “Santo Domingo from the Margins: The Construction of Racial and (Trans) National Identities in Dominican National Discourse”
M.A., Rutgers University
B.A., Rutgers University

Primary Interests

• Latin American Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
• Contemporary Spanish American Poetry
• Regional and Alternate Literatures in Spanish America

Selected Courses Taught at Dartmouth

• SPAN 3: Intermediate Spanish

Publications

• “A Woman Named City: Josefina Báez Performance of Migration, Identity and Resistance” Wadabagei, Journal of Afro Caribbean Studies and Its Diaspora.
• “De dominicano a dominicanyork: el viaje en la narrativa de Junot Díaz y Josefina Báez.” Xinesquema. April, 2003.

Additional Information

Lorgia García-Peña is also an independent journalist. Her articles appear with regularity in various independent as well as mainstream media in the Caribbean and the United States.