| Areas
of Expertise |
Graduate
Courses |
- Latin American
Literature of the Twentieth Century
- Latin American
Women Writers
- Latina Writers
- Hispanic Civilization
and Culture
- Latin American
Narrative
- Latin American
Theater
- Latin American
Studies
|
- Women and Nation:
Thoughts, Voices, and Actions of Latin American Women Activists
- Contemporary
Latina Writing in the United States
- The Latin American
Short Story
- Latin American
Women Writers
- The Latin American
Novel
- Women in Latin
American Theater
- Politics and
Latin American Women’s Fiction
- Dictatorship
and the Latin American Novel
- Twentieth Century
Latin American Theater
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| Undergraduate
Courses |
- Spanish Language
courses: all levels
- Introduction to
Hispanic Literature
- Latin American
Culture and Civilization
- Hispanic Culture
and Civilization
- Latin American
Women Writers: Literature and Film
- Introduction
to Latin American Studies
- Latin American
literature 1880 to the present
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| Conferences:
|
A.L.F.H. Conference 2003
A.I.L.F.H.
Conference 2003 Call For Papers -pdf
A.I.L.F.H.
Conference 2003 Registration Form -pdf |
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| Selected Publications: |
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| Books: |
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- Beyond the
Border: A New Age in Latin American Women’s Fiction. Gainesville,
Fl.: UP of Florida, 2000. 2nd. Edition. Co-editor Caridad Silva.
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- La nueva escritora
hispánica. Miami: Editorial Universal, 1990. Co-editor. Juan
Cruz Mendizábal.
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- Puerta abierta:
la nueva escritora latinoamericana. Mexico City: Joaquín
Mortiz, 1986. Co-editor Caridad Silva-Velázquez.
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| Articles:
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- “Isabel
Allende,” Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography: African,
Caribbean, and Latin American Writers. Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli, Clark,
Layman, Inc. 2000.37-45.
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- “Creación
e identidad en The House on the Lagoon de Rosario Ferré.”
in La seducción de la
escritura: Los discursos de la cultura hoy Eds. Rosaura Hernández
Monroy and Manuel F. Medina. Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana,
Universidad Estatal de Michigan, Universidad de Louisville, 1997. 176-81.
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- “Teaching
Approaches to Sweet Diamond Dust.” CCHA Review. Special Issue.
August 1996. 119-29.
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- “Armonía
Somers.” in Spanish American Women Writers. Ed. Diane Marting.
Westport, Ct.:
Greenwood P, 1990. 493-500.
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| Awards
and grants: |
| Professorial
Excellence Program Award. Florida Atlantic University, 1998; Scholar-in-Residence.“The
Women of Latin America: Images and Realities,” 1998, University of
Orlando Foundation Humanities Institute, Valencia Community College, Orlando,
Florida, August 10-21, 1998; National Endowment for the Humanities Award
“Women in Twentieth Century Latin America.” 1996-1197; Florida
Endowment for the Humanities,” Summer 1990; Research Grant, Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1978; Fulbright Scholarship,
1961. |
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peralta@fau.edu
