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Silvia Spitta

Ph.D., University of Oregon

Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
Chair of the Graduate Committee of the Master's Program
Former Chair of Women's and Gender Studies

Recent Scholarship:

Between Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America (Houston: Texas A & M, 2006 [Rice University Press 1995]).

Más allá de la ciudad letrada: crónicas y espacios urbanos, co-edited with Boris Muñoz (Pittsburgh: Insitituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Biblioteca de América, 2003).

Misplaced Objects: Transatlantic Subject Matters and New Cultural Geographies in the Americas (forthcoming University of Texas Press).

Interests:

Women and mestizaje in Latin/o American
Women writers of the borderlands

Courses Taught:

Roots of Feminism
The Borderlands: Latin/a Writing in the US
Women's Identities in Migration

Last Updated: 5/15/06