Academic Degrees

Ph.D., M. Phil, M.A., Columbia University; B.A., Harvard University

Research Areas

Latin American Literature and Culture, with an emphasis on the colonial period and 19th century; Historiography; Narrative theory

Books

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

“Espectáculos de la imaginación: La interpretación histórica en los Comentarios reales.” 400 años de los Comentarios reales. Ed. Song No and Elena Romiti. Montevideo: Universidad de la República (Uruguay), Purdue University, and Aitana Editores, 2010, pp. 15-33.

“Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y la incipiente conciencia criolla en la historiografía de Indias.” Poéticas de lo criollo: Inestabilidad semántica y heterogeneidad identitaria. La transformación del concepto ‘criollo’ en las letras hispaonamericanas (siglos XVI-XIX), ed. David Solodkow and Juan Vitulli. Buenos Aires: Editorial Corregidor, 2009, pp. 62-79.

“Totems and Taboos Revisited: Roberto Matta and the New World Tradition.” Matta: Making the Invisible Visible. Exhibit co-curator. Chestnut Hill, MA: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2004, pp. 9-14.

Recent Papers and Presentations

“Literacy and the Imagination in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s Comentarios Reales.” Atlantic World Literacies Conference. University of North Carolina, Greensboro, October 7-9, 2010.

“Don Quixote and the Discourses of History.” NEMLA conference, Boston, February 28, 2009.

“Signposts of Fiction, Territories of History.” Program of the Society for the Study of Narrative session, MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, December 2007.

“Bernal Díaz and the Territories of History.” Program of the Division on Colonial Literature, MLA Annual Convention, December 27-30, 2006.

“Race, Culture and Memory in the Cuban Literary Tradition.” Invited lecture, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government Cuba Seminar, March 15, 2006.

“Infidels, Heretics, and History according to Las Casas.” Program of the Division on Colonial Literature, MLA Annual Convention, December 27-30, 2005.

“Informing ‘Indians’: Science and Religion in the Histories of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo.” Colonial Americas Study Association Symposium, Bogotá, Colombia, August 8-11, 2005.

“Science and Religion in the Early Spanish Historiography of America.” Society of Early Americanists, Old Town Alexandria, VA, March 31-April 2, 2005.

“Discursive Borderlines in the Early Chronicles of the Indies,” Program of the Division on Colonial Latin American Literatures. MLA Convention, December 2004.

“Fictions of Identity and Empire in Colonial 19th-century Cuba.” 2004 Atlantic World Conference, University North Carolina, Greensboro, September 17-18, 2004.