Francine Masiello at UMD
Francine Masiello at UMD
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Spanish and Portuguese
Thursday, April 12, 2018 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Francis Scott Key Hall,
2120
Merrill Room
, "The Senses of Democracy:
Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America",
, , A Conversation with Francine Masiello,
,, Francine Masiello is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She works on topics related to Latin American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, gender theory, and comparative North/South literatures. Her books include Lenguaje e ideología: los movimientos de vanguardia de los años 20, Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary in Modern Argentina, El periodismo femenino del s. xix, and The Art of Transition: Neoliberalism and Latin American Culture. She is also co-author or co-editor of numerous volumes, most recently a book on Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman. Currently, she is writing on Joyce in Latin America.