Program in Spanish: Faculty Profiles

Carla Giaudrone. Ph.D., New York University - Associate Professor

Fin-de-siècle Spanish American literatures, Southern Cone literature and culture, Latin American Modernismo, Post-colonial theory, Feminist Theory, and Gender Studies 

Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Rutgers-Camden.

 Associate Professor Carla Giaudrone holds a PhD in Hispanic literature from New York University, with a specialization in fin-de-siècle Spanish American literatures and Southern Cone literature and culture. Additional research areas include post-colonial theory, Latin American Modernismo, feminist theory, and gender studies. Currently, she is working on a book-length study that analyzes how the relationship between image and text impacts on cultural identity issues through the examination of commemorative illustrated books of the centennial celebrations of independence in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Books

·          La degeneración del Novecientos. Modernistmo y modelos estético-sexuales de la cultura. Montevideo: Editorial Trilce, 2005. Honorary mention. Premio Anual de Literatura. Ministerio de Educación Cultura (Uruguayan government’s Annual Literary Awards ceremony recognizing books published during 2005 and 2006).

·          El pudor y la cachondez de Julio Herrera y Reissig. Carla Giaudrone and Nilo Berriel edition, introduction, and notes. Montevideo: Arca, 1992.

Edited Dossier

Narrativas del Centenario y Bicentenario de la independencia en Latinoamérica. Carla Giaudrone and Shelley Garrigan edition and introduction. Iberoamericana América Latina, España y Portugal 40. Forthcoming 2010.

Recent Articles in Refereed Publications

·          “El barco y el cenáculo como heterotopias en el modernismo”. Los raros uruguayos: nuevas miradas. Valentina Litvan and Javier Uriarte coord. Cahiers de LI.RI.CO 5. Université Paris 8. Forthcoming 2010.

·          “Representaciones de lo vernáculo en el primer centenario de la independencia del Paraguay”. Iberoamericana América Latina, España y Portugal  40. Forthcoming 2010.

·          “Identidad y cultura visual del Centenario: imágenes del gaucho en publicaciones conmemorativas de 1910 en Argentina.” Building Latin American Bicentennials in the Age of Globalization. Buenos Aires and New York: New School’s Observatory on Latin America and Universidad de Buenos Aires. Honorary mention. International Call for Papers and Visual Digital Presentations Building Latin American Bicentennials in the Age of Globalization. Forthcoming 2010.

·          “El gaucho en el ámbito iconográfico del Centenario uruguayo (1925-1930)”. Revista Hispánica Moderna 61.2 (2008): 149-165.

·          “Nuevos sujetos en el espacio urbano de la escritura modernista rioplatense”. Hispania 91.2 (2008): 310-319.

·          “Deseo y modernización: El modernismo canónico esteticista en el fin de siglo uruguayo”. Uruguay: imaginarios culturales. De los orígenes a la modernidad. Eds. Hugo Achugar, Mabel Moraña. Montevideo: Trilce-Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2000, 259-292.

Jonathan Tittler, Ph.D., Cornell University - Professor

Colombian Literature and Culture, Contemporary Spanish-American Literature, Postmodernism, and Environmental Criticism

Professor Jonathan Tittler’s abiding research interests lie in literary and cultural criticism and theory, and he is especially fascinated with postmodernism and how postmodernism manifests itself in developing areas of a globalized world such as Latin America.  Additional research interests include literary translation (he has translated five Spanish American novels into English), Afro-Hispanic literature and culture, as well as environmental criticism regarding Spanish American eco-fiction.  He recently published, in Spanish, a political-literary biography titled El verbo y el mando:  Vida y milagros de Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazábal (2005) and, in English, the translation of Changó, el Gran Putas, by the Afro-Colombian novelist Manuel Zapata Olivella (2010).

Publications

 Books

• El verbo y el mando:  Vida y milagros de Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazábal (Tuluá, Colombia:  Unidad Central del Valle/Colección CantaRana, 2005).
• Manuel Puig (Boston:  G.K.Hall [Twayne World Authors Series], 1993).
• Narrative Irony in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel (Ithaca and London:  Cornell University Press, 1984); translated by Carmen Barvo as Ironía narrativa en la novela hispanoamericana contemporánea (Bogotá:  Banco de la República, 1990).
• Violencia y literatura en Colombia (Madrid:  Editorial Orígenes, 1989).

 Published translations:

• Manuel Zapata Olivella, Changó, the Biggest Badass (orig. Changó, el Gran Putas) (Lubbock, TX:  Texas Tech UP, 2010).
• Antonio Skármeta, Love-Fifteen (orig. Match ball) (Pittsburgh:  Latin American Literary Review Press, 1996).
• Manuel Zapata Olivella, Chambacú: Black Slum (orig. Chambacú, corral de negros) (Pittsburgh:  Latin American Literary Review Press, 1991).
• Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazábal, Bazaar of the Idiots (orig. El bazar de los idiotas) (Pittsburgh:  Latin American Literary Review Press, 1989).
• Adalberto Ortiz, Juyungo (orig. Juyungo) (Washington, D.C.:  Three Continents Press, 1982).

Recent Articles, papers and interviews:

• Book presentation:  “Prólogo a Revolución en Gaia: La corrección política desde una perspectiva ecocrítica”, Santiago, Chile, 25 March 2010.
• Conference paper:  "La crítica solar de Seymour Menton:  Seis décadas de trabajo esclarecedor," XVI Conference of the Association of Colombianistas, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 6 August 2009.
• Invited lecture: "In Praise of Quijote," The University of Auckland, 14 May 2009.
• Interview:  "Entrevista con Fernando Raga Castellanos, autor de Los hijos de Gaia," Revista Crítica.cl (Santiago, Chile) www.critica.cl/html/entrevistas/jonathan_tittler_01.html, 16 April 2008.
• Article:  "Una relectura ecocrítica del canon criollista:  Mariano Latorre y Horacio Quiroga," Tabula Rasa: Revista de Humanidades 7 (marzo 2008): 197-210.

Ana Laguna, Ph.D., Purdue University - Associate Professor

Early Modern Literature and Culture, Visual Studies, Race Theory, and Material Culture

Executive Member for the Cervantes Society of America, Vice President for the EMIT (Early Modern Image and Text) Society, Resident Director of the Rutgers Summer Study Abroad Program in Salamanca

Professor Laguna holds a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Purdue University. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Spain, exploring how literature reflects and shapes prominent artistic and socio-political anxieties. Her work has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Ministry of Culture of Spain and United States Universities, and the Rutgers Research Council. In 2008, she was the recipient of Rutgers Chancellor Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Selected Publications:

 Book

Cervantes and the Pictorial Imagination. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University  Press, 2009.

Recent Articles in Refereed Publications

·          “Calderón and the Scholastic Pursuit. Life is a Dream and the Fractures of Reason.” Philosophical Approaches to Calderón. Ed. Andrés Lema-Hincapié. Forthcoming.

·          “Antonio Pérez and the Art of Influence.” Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World. Ed. Jason McCloskey and Ignacio López. Forthcoming.

·          “The Unlikely Friendship of Cervantes and David Smith” exhib. cat. New York: Craig F. Starr Gallery, 2010.

·          “Cervantes en Hollywood. El curioso impertinente en Kissing a Fool (1998)”.  Don Quijote, cosmopolita: Nuevos estudios sobre la recepción internacional de la novela cervantina Colección Humanidades. Toledo: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, 2009. 369-82.

·          “Entre el museo y el teatro:  oportunidades didácticas de la entrada real de Ana de Austria en Madrid” (Between the Museum and the Theater:  Didactic Opportunities at Queen Ana’s Entry in Madrid). Bulletin de Comediantes. 61.2 (2009): 51-69.

·          “Through the Bonfires of Petrarchism: Flemish Aesthetics in Cervantes’s El coloquio de los perros.”  Hispanic Review 75. 1 (2007): 23-45.

·          “An Exemplar Case of Jealousy. Cervantes's Jealous Old Man from Extremadura: Fall and Rise of Virtue as an Operative Principle.”  Hispanófila 143 (2005): 1-19.

·          “Ekphrasis in the Prologue to Don Quijote I:  Urganda ‘the Unknowable’ and the Mirrors of Fiction.”  Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes. Ed. Frederick de Armas. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2005. 135-57.

·          “Carmen Martín Gaite.  Ecos postmodernos.” Romance Languages Annual 9 (1997): 505-07.