"Cortar y Pegar": An Event with Professor Antonia Viu

Professor Antonia Viu of the Adolfo Ibáñez University (Chile) gave a talk at the University of Maryland.

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese sponsored an exciting event with a visiting scholar from Chile on Thursday, October 27, 2016. 

“Cortar y pegar: Recortes, propiedad y colaboración internacional en revistas latinoamericanas de las décadas del treinta y cuarenta”

Copy and Paste: Cutouts, Property, and Collaboration in Latin American Journals during the 30s and 40s

Presented By: Antonia Viu, Adolfo Ibáñez University (Chile)

Antonia Viu is an associate professor in the Department of Literature at the Adolfo Ibáñez University and the director of the master’s program in Comparative Literature at the School of Liberal Arts. Professor Viu holds a B.A. in English and Hispanic Literatures from the Catholic University of Chile, an M.A. in Spanish-American Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Chile. Her research focuses on 20th century Chilean fiction, and she is currently conducting research on readers and audiences in Chilean fiction and culture from 1940 to 1960. Professor Author of Imaginar el pasado, decir el presente: La novela histórica chilena (1985-2003) (Ril, 2007), and editor of Territorios del Tiempo: Historia, escritura e imaginarios en la narrativa de Antonio Gil (Dibam, 2013), she has also been published in journals such as Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana and Hispamérica.

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