Julie Lirot

Lecturer in Spanish

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

Office: 304 Silsby

2011 Spring Office Hours: Thursday 9:00-10:20 a.m., or by appointment

Telephone: (603) 646-0328
Fax: (603) 646-3695
E-mail: Julie.Lirot@Dartmouth.edu

Ph.D., University of Arizona

Education:

• Ph. D Spanish. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 2002. La identidad postmoderna: Base temática y estructural en la narrativa de Esther Tusquets y Reinaldo Arenas. Director: Malcolm Compitello.
• M.A. Spanish. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1995.
• B.A. Spanish. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1992.
• Interpretation Certificate. Agnese Haury Institute, 2000.

Fields of Specialization and Interests:

• Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture
• Film and Television Studies
• Colombian and Caribbean Writers
• Gender Studies
• Digital Humanities
• Online Media Studies

Publications:

Books:

• Rastros de violencia: narradoras de la coetaneidad. Manuscript in progess.
• Alzar la voz: escritoras colombianas contemporáneas. Conditionally Accepted for publication, Universidad Pontificia Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia, 2010.
• La identidad postmoderna en El mundo alucinante de Reynaldo Arenas. Editorial Universal, Miami, Florida, 2006.

Editions:

• Editor. El Universo Literario de Laura Restrepo, Eds. Elvira Sánchez Blake and Julie Lirot. Alfaguara 2007.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles and book chapters:

• “Feminist Bildungsroman in Las cuitas de Carlota and Prohibido salir a la calle.” Hybrido 8:2006, 52-55.
• “Entrevista con David William Foster: Perspectivas sobre el arte y la cultura hispanas.”
• Letras Hispanas 2:1 (2005). 91-99. http://letrashispanas.unlv.edu/Vol2/vol2index.htm
• “La mujer incorpórea en La novia oscura, La multitud errante, y Delirio de Laura Restrepo.” Ensayos sin frontera: Estudios sobre literatura hispanoamericana. Eds. Carlos Aguasaco, Osorio y Saavedra. Cali: Botella y Luna, 2005.
• “La identidad femenina como subversión amorosa en la narrativa de Esther Tusquets.” Letras Peninsulares 16:3 (2003-2004).

Recent Courses:

• Spanish 9: Culture and Conversation
• Spanish 10: Introduction to Literary Genres
• LACS 9: First year seminar: Latin American Narratives of Revolution
• LACS 37: Latin American Women Writers
• LACS 30: Cuisine and Culture: Latin American Film

Additional Information:

• Editor, Letras Hispanas (Http://letrashispanas.unlv.edu)