CLACS: Faculty

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Faculty affiliated with CLACS work in many disciplines and countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Please choose a department below for information on specific faculty.

J. Michael Dash
michael.dash@nyu.edu
Professor, French and Social and Cultural Analysis
Ph.D., University of the West Indies, 1973
Specialties: French Caribbean literature; literature and ideology
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Arlene Dávila
arlene.davila@nyu.edu
Professor, Anthropology and Social and Cultural Analysis
Ph.D., The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 1996
Specialties: Nationalism, cultural politics, media and expressive culture, urban studies, U.S. Latinos
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Thomas A. Abercrombie
thomas.abercrombie@nyu.edu
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1986
Specialties: Cultural history/historical anthropology, colonized societies, postcolonial situations, nationalism, cultural performance, narrative, Gender and Sexuality; Andes, Spain.
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Arlene Dávila
arlene.davila@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Social and Cultural Analysis
Ph.D., The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 1996
Specialties: Nationalism, cultural politics, media and expressive culture, urban studies, U.S. Latinos
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Aisha Khan
ak105@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., City University of New York, 1995
Specialties: Race and ethnicity; social stratification; theory and method in diaspora studies; religion; the Caribbean and Latin America.
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Lok Siu
lok.siu@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Anthropology & Social and Cultural Analysis
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2000
Specialties: Migration, diaspora, transnationalism, cultural citizenship, race and gender, Chinese diaspora, Central America and Panama, Asians in the Americas
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Constance R. Sutton
constance.sutton@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1969
Specialties: Caribbean, transnational migrations, West Indian/West African sex-gender systems, international feminism, Caribbean race/class relations and political change
Author: Caribbean Life in New York City, ed., with E. Chaney (Center for Migration Studies); Caribbean Migration to New York, ed., with E. Chaney (Special issue of International Migration Review); Protest and Change in Barbados: the Study of a Sugar Community (Institute of Caribbean Studies); "Feminism, Nationalism, Militarism," ed, American Anthropological Assoc., and many articles.

Robert P. Stam
rps1@nyu.edu
University Professor, Cinema Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1976
Curator, film content pf "Brazil" Body and Soul" exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in NY, 2001
Specialties: Brazilian cinema novo; Third World cinema
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Jorge Castañeda
jorge.castaneda@nyu.edu
Global Distinguished Professor, Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Ph.D., University of Paris, 1978
Specialties: Inter-American relations; Mexican politics; Latin American politics
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Odi Gonzales
Language Lecturer, CLACS and Dept. of Spanish
ABD/Candidate to PhD, University of Maryland (Department of Spanish and Portuguese).
M.A. Latin American Literature. University of Maryland, College Park, 2003
Licenciado in Latin American Literature and Linguistics. Universidad Nacional de San Agustin, Arequipa, Perù, 1985
Specialities: Quechua oral tradition; Interaction between Quechua Orality and Latin American Literature; Study, Transcription and Translation of Quechua oral tradition heritage; Comparative studies about ancient andean myths, tales, songs; Quechua poetry.
Author, Urban Virgins. Pictures and poems. Ana de Orbegoso and Odi Gonzales. Trilingual edition: Quechua, Spanish, English. Lima, Peru,2007; La escuela de Cusco. Textos sobre los pintores indìgenas de Cusco, siglo XVII. Ediciones El Santo Oficio. Lima, Perú, 2005;
Tunupa/Siren’s book(poetry). Co-edition: El Santo Oficio de Lima, Perú, and National Foreign Language Center, USA. Trilingual edition: Spanish, Quechua, English. 2002;
Taki parwa/22 poemas de Kilku Waraka. Study and translation of Andres Alencastres’s Quechua poetry. Ediciones Municipalidad del Cusco, Perú, 2000; El Quijote en Quechua. Estudio sobre la versiòn Quechua del Ingenioso Hidalgo don Quijote. Primera Revista Latinoamericana. No. 1. New York, Octubre 2007; Sobre Dioses y hombres de Huarochiri, el primer libro quechua de los Andes. Primera Revista Latinoamericana. No. 2. New York, Lima Peru, 2008.

Carmen Medeiros
cm88@nyu.edu
Assistant Professor, CLACS
Ph.D., City University of NY, 2005
Specialities: Andean Studies, critical development theory, indigenous movements, multicultural citizenship, neo-liberal project, post-colonial theory.

Rafael Sanchez
rs193@nyu.edu
Assistant Professor, CLACS
Ph.D., New York University, 2004
Specialities: religion and state, colonial/post-colonial theory, nationalism, media, modernity and Latin American history

Patricio Navia
pdn200@nyu.edu
Master Teacher, General Studies Program, NYU
Ph.D., New York University, 2003
Specialties: Electoral Systems, Democratization and Democratic Institutions
Author: Las Grandes Alamedas: El Chile Post Pinochet (Mondadori, 2004); "The Politics of Second Generation Reforms in Latin America" (with Andrés Velasco) in Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and John Williamson (eds.), After the Washington Consensus: Restarting Growth and Reform in Latin America (Washington: Institute for International Economics, March 2003); "The Trials of Pinochet", Foreign Policy, May-June 2003; "Democracy, Dictatorship and Infant Mortality Revisited", Journal of Democracy, 14.3 (July), 2003; "From Politics by Individuals to Party Militancy: Socialization, Political Competition and Electoral Growth of the Chilean UDI (1989-2001)" (with Alfredo Joignant), forthcoming in Kay Lawson and Peter Merkl (eds), When Parties Prosper (2002). "Democracy, Dictatorship, and Infant Mortality" [with Thomas D. Zweifel] Journal of Democracy 11.2 (2000) 99-114; "Fair Play at Voting Precincts: A Comparison of Mexican and Chilean Elections" Democratisation, Volume 7.1 (Spring 2000).

George Y�dice
gy2@nyu.edu
Professor, Spanish, Social and Cultural Anaylsis
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1977
Specialties: Latin American literature and culture
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Anthony DePalma
depalma@nytimes.com
Lecturer, CLACS
B.A Journalism, Seton Hall, 1975
Specialties: International Journalism

Carlos Ulises Decena
cudecena@rci.rutgers.edu
Adjunct Professor, CLACS
Assistant Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studiesof International Economics, Tufts
Department of LAtinio and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
Ph.D. American Studies, New York University, 2004
Specialties: gender and sexuality studies, migration studies
Author: Forth . “A randomized controlled trial to test an HIV-prevention intervention for Latino gay and bisexual men. Lessons learned.” Co-Authors: Alex Carballo-Diéguez, Curtis Dolezal, Chen-Shiun Leu, Luis Nieves, Francisco Díaz, and Ivan Balan. AIDS Care; In Prep. “New Latino/as in New York State : Inclusion, Gender, and Labor Politics.” Co-Editor of Special Issue with Margaret Gray. Social Text (Commissioned); 2004 “Looking for a tall, dark, macho man ... Sexual-role behaviour variations in Latino gay and bisexual men.” Co-Authors: Alex Carballo-Diéguez, Curtis Dolezal, Luis Nieves, Francisco Díaz, and Ivan Balan. Culture, Health and Sexuality , Volume 6, Number 2, 159-171 (March-April); 2002 “Intention to notify sexual partners about potential HIV exposure among New York City STD Clinics’ clients.” Co-Authors: Alex Carballo-Diéguez, Robert Remien, Deborah Benson and Susan Blank. Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Vol. 29, No. 8, 465-471.

Lawrence Krohn
ldk3@nyu.edu
Adjunct Professor, CLACS
Adjunt Associate Professor of International Economics, Tufts University
Ph.D. Economics, Columbia University
Specialties: international economics, Brazilian markets

Peter Lucas
peterlucas@nyu.edu
Adjunct Professor, CLACS
Ph.D. International Education, Steinhardt School of Education
Specialties: international human rights, peace education, global security
Author: Viva Favela: New Media, Visual Inclusion, and Human Rights in Brazil, forthcoming on Umbrage Editions; Human Rights Films Seeding Peace Education. 2005. Writings on Documentary Films (Belgesel Film Ustune Yazilar). Ed. Nilufer Pembecioglu Ocel. Ankara: Babil Yayincilik Press;Pedagogy of Indignation: Paulo Freire’s Relationship to Human Rights and Peace Education. 2005. Teachers College Record. Vol. 108. No. 6.; The Mural of Pain and The Ethics of Memory. 2005. Um Mural Para a Dor: Movimentos Civicoes Religiosos Por Justica e Paz. Ed. Patricia Birman and Marcia Leite. Porto Alegre: Editora da UFRGS; Blood Diamonds in Africa: A Human Rights Curriculum. 2004. Ethics and Global Politics: An Active Learning Sourcebook. Ed. April Morgan, Lucinda Peach, Colette Mazzucelli. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press; The Missing Person Photos. 2003. The Scholar and Feminist Online Journal. http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline Issue 2.1 Public Sentiments: The Archives of Trauma; Peace Education: The Case of Cyprus. 2003. The Accession of Cyprus to the EU: Challenges and Opportunities. Ed. George Yiangou. Proceeding of an International Conference, May 4-5, 2003. Institute for the Study of Europe.

Albor Ruiz
ARuiz@edit.nydailynews.com
Lecturer, CLACS
M.A., University of Florida, 1970
Specialties: Spanish language journalism

Kamau Brathwaite
kb5@nyu.edu
Professor, Comparative Literature
Ph.D., University of Sussex, 1968
Specialties: Caribbean and comparative Literature, history, and culture
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Ana María Dopico
ana.dopico@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1998
Specialties: Comparative studies of the Americas, North-South studies/politics of the global South, Cuban and Caribbean Literature, nationhood and imperialism, public intellectuals and cultural genealogies, U.S. Latino cultures, cold wars and drug wars, gender and narrative, psychoanalysis and social mythologies
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Robin Nagle
robin.nagle@nyu.edu
Director, Draper Program in Humanities and Social Thought
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1994
Specialties: Religion, ethnohistory, narrative and symbolic structures, social theory, northeast Brazil.
Author: Claiming the Virgin: The Broken Promise of Liberation Theology in Brazil (Routledge); "Pelo Direito de Ser Igreja: the Struggle of the Morro da Conceicao," in The Progressive Church As a Catalyst for Social Change in Latin America, ed. John Burdick and William Hewitt, (Greenwood Press).

Raquel Fern�ndez
raquel.fernandez@nyu.edu
Professor, Economics
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1988
Specialties: International economic relations, inequlity, education
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Pedro Noguera
pedro.noguera@nyu.edu
Professor, Teaching and Learning, Social Science and Humanities, Steinhardt School of Education
Ph.D. Sociology, UC Berkeley, 1989
Specialties: Sociology of Education, Race and Ethnic relations,
Sociology of Development, Immigration, Political change in the Caribbean
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Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
mso3@nyu.edu
The Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education, Steinhardt School of Education
Specialties: cultural psychology and psychological anthropology with a focus on the study of immigration and globalization; Latino Studies
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Bruce J. Altshuler
bruce.altshuler@nyu.edu
Director, Program in Museum Studies
Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts
Ph.D., Harvard University 1977
Specialties: History of exhibitions, museum studies, modern and contemporary art
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Edward J. Sullivan
edward.sullivan@nyu.edu
Professor, Fine Arts
Dean for Humanities, Graduate School of Arts and Science
Ph.D., New York University Institute of Fine Arts, 1979
Specialties: Art of Latin America: colonial to modern, art of the Iberian Peninsula
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Ada Ferrer
af6@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1994
Specialties: Cuba, Caribbean, comparative slavery and emancipation, nationalism, impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
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Gregory Grandin
grandin@nyu.edu
Professor, History
Ph.D., Yale University, 1999
Specialties: Political violence, revolution, and US-Latin American relations, the history of Latinos/as in North America, history and anthropology in Mesoamerica, terror and memory in Latin America, Latin American Cold War, Revolution and Counterrevolution in Latin America
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Sinclair Thomson
st19@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1996
Specialties: Andean colonial history, Indian and peasant politics, popular religion
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Cristina Rodriguez
cristina.rodriguez@nyu.edu
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., Yale; M.Litt., Oxford, U.K.; J.D., Yale
Specialties: Language, Culture and the Law, Constitutional Law, International Law and International Human Rights
Author: "Accommodating Linguistic Difference: Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Language Rights in the United States," 36 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 133 (2001); "Clearing the Smoke-Filled Room: Women Jurors and the Disruption of an Old Boys' Network in Nineteenth-Century America," 108 Yale L.J. 1805 (1999)

Ren�e Blake
renee.blake@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997
Specialties: language contact, sociolinguistic variation, language diffusion, pidgin and creole language studies, African American Vernacular English
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John V. Singler
jvs1@nyu.edu
Professor, Linguistics
Ph.D., UCLA, 1984
Specialties: sociolinguistics; phonology; pidgins and creoles
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Miriam Basilio
miriam.basilio@nyu.edu
Assistant Professor

Specialties: Art, propaganda, cultural property and national identity in Spain, modern Spanish and Latin American art, and the reception of Latin American art in the United States.
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Ana María Ochoa-Gautier
ana.ochoa@nyu.edu
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1996
Specialties:Colombian, Mexican and Brazilian music
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Jason Stanyek
jstanyek@nyu.edu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Specialties: Brazilian music and dance, improvisation studies, music and diaspora, hip hop, politics of presence, interculturalism
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Barbara Browning
barbara.browning@nyu.edu
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1989
Specialties: Brazil and the African diaspora, dance ethnography; race, gender and postcoloniality, spirit possession and healing
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Jose E. Mu�oz
jose.munoz@nyu.edu
Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Performance Studies
Ph.D., Duke University, 1994
Specialties: Queer theory and critical race analysis
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Diana Taylor
diana.taylor@nyu.edu
Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish
Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1981
Specialties: Performance and politics, theatre and ritual, gender and performance
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Jorge Casta�eda
jorge.castaneda@nyu.edu
Global Distinguished Professor, Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Ph.D., University of Paris, 1978
Specialties: Inter-American relations; Mexican politics; Latin American politics
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Youssef Cohen
youseff.cohen@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Politics
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1979
Specialties: methodology; comparative politics; Latin American Politics
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Shepard Forman
shepard.forman@nyu.edu
Research Professor
Director, Center for International Cooperation
Ph.D., Columbia University
Specialties: Anthropology; international relations; international law and organizations
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Christopher Mitchell
chris.mitchell@nyu.edu
Professor, Politics
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1971
Specialties: U.S.-Caribbean relations; Dominican politics, Inter-American migration
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Adam Przeworski
adam.przeworski@nyu.edu
Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor in European Studies, Politics
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1966
Specialties: Comparing processes of democratization and economic liberalization in varied world regions, including Latin America and Eastern Europe
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Sonia M. Ospina
sonia.ospina@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Public Management and Policy
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Faculty Director of the Research Center for Leadership in Action
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1989
Specialties: public management reform, governance and collaborative problem-solving in public service, both in the United States and in Latin America
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María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
msp6@nyu.edu
Visiting Associate Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis
Director, Latino Studies, spring 2007
Ph.D., Stanford University, Modern Thought and Literature; B.A., Yale University, English Literature
Specialties: Latina/o cultural studies; development and globalization studies; comparative race in the Americas; 20th century revolutionary thought and literature of the Americas.
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Juan E. Corradi
juan.corradi@nyu.edu
Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1974
Specialties: sociology of knowledge and ideology; literature and society; social change and modernization; Latin American societies
Author: Fear and Society: The Culture of Fear in Authoritarian Regimes of the Southern Cone, with P.W. Fagen and M.A. Garretón (University of California Press); The Fitful Republic: Economy, Society and Politics in Argentina (Westview Press).

Jeff Goodwin
jeff.goodwin@nyu.edu
Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1988
Specialties: Sociology of Revolution and Social Movements, Central America, US-Latin American Relations
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Guillermina Jasso
guillermina.jasso@nyu.edu
Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, 1974
Specialties: Immigration, Justice, status and other basic social processes, income distribution and inequality, factorial survey methods, theory construction
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Gerard L. Aching
gerard.aching@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1991
Specialties: 19th and 20th-century Caribbean literatures, 19th-century Spanish American literature, contemporary cultural theories and criticism.
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Helene M. Anderson
hma1@nyu.edu
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1961
Specialties: 19th- and 20th-century Mexican Literature; under 19th century: Mexican narrative and the formation of the natinal literary canon", under 20th century narrative: Mexican literature within its historical and political contexts
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Miriam Ayres
miriam.ayres@nyu.edu
Senior Language Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D., Yale University, 1995
Specialties: Second language acquisition and instruction (Spanish and Portuguese); Comparative literary studies: Brazil, Spain, Spanish-America
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Ana María Dopico
ana.dopico@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1998
Specialties: Comparative studies of the Americas, North-South studies/politics of the global South, Cuban and Caribbean Literature, nationhood and imperialism, public intellectuals and cultural genealogies, U.S. Latino cultures, cold wars and drug wars, gender and narrative, psychoanalysis and social mythologies
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Georgina Dopico-Black
gdb3@nyu.edu
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D., Yale, 1995
Specialties:Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Early Modern Spain, autobiographical writing, women and the body.
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James D. Fern�ndez
jf2@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Chair and Director, Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1988
Specialties: Literature, history, and culture of modern Spain; autobiography, cultural relations between Spain and Latin America, visions of Spain
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Sibylle Fischer
smf287@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1988
Specialties:Caribbean and Latin American literatures (Spanish, Portuguese, French); culture and politics in the nineteenth century; literature and dictatorship; literature and philosophy; cultural, aesthetic, and political theory; the Black Atlantic; the Haitian Revolution.
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Kenneth L. Krabbenhoft
kk1@nyu.edu
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D., New York University, 1982
Specialties: Spanish and Portuguese literature, 1500-1700, contemporary Brazilian literature, literary rhetoric, mystical literature
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Jo Labanyi
jl1220@nyu.edu
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
B.A. 1967 (Spanish), Oxford.
Specialties: Spanish literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries; film, especially that of the early Franco period; gender studies; popular culture; memory, especially in relation to the Spanish Civil War.
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Sylvia Molloy
m3@nyu.edu
Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Universit� de Paris, 1967
Specialties: Latin American literature, Argentine literature, Borges, women and writing, autobiographical narrative
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Judith K. N�methy
judith.nemethy@nyu.edu
Senior Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D., University of Szeged, Hungary, 1999
Specialties: Foreign language methodology, second-language acquisition, curricular planning, teacher training, ethnic and minority studies
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Marta C. Peixoto
mcp1@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1977
Specialties: Contemporary Brazilian literature, feminist theory
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Mary Louise Pratt
mlp7@nyu.edu
Silver Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975
Specialties: Latin American literature since 1800, postcolonial criticism and theory, cultural studies, women and print culture in Latin America, literary theory, discourse and ideology, travel literature, literature and colonialism, Latin American cultural theory, modern prose fiction
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Kathleen A. Ross
kar1@nyu.edu
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D., Yale University, 1985
Specialties: Colonial Latin American Studies, translation Studies
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George Y�dice
gy2@nyu.edu
Professor, Spanish, Social and Cultural Analysis
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1977
Specialties: Latin American literature and culture
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