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PhD, University of Minnesota
Professor of Latin American Literature

ANNOUNCEMENT

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and The Program in International and Area Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri proudly announce the appointment of Professor Mabel Moraña as the William H. Gass Professor in Arts and Sciences.

As Professor Moraña assumes the position of Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Washington University, she will continue as Director of Publications of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana until the end of her term, in June 2008.

Director of Publications, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana

Specializes in Colonial, 19th-century and 20th-century literature and culture. Teaches courses on Baroque/Neobaroque, emergence and development of national cultures, Latin American literary and cultural criticism, and critical theory.

Professor Mabel Moraña was Chair of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures from 1996 to 2002. During those years, she created the International Conferences on Latin American Cultural Studies which took place at the University of Pittsburgh in 1998, 2000, and 2002, and constituted one of the most important international forums for Latin American intellectual exchange in the U.S.

She has worked as a Visiting Professor at the Universities of California, Santa Cruz, the Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador, the Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay. She has also given lectures in France, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, etc.

In 1998 Professor Moraña received a Senior Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation to work in the program on "Posdictadura y transición democrática" in Santiago de Chile, and also in the Rockefeller Institute in Montevideo on the topic of " Culturas del Mercosur."

She is the author of several books, including Literatura y cultura nacional en Hispanoamérica (1910-1940) (1984), Memorias de la generación fantasma (1988), Viaje al silencio, Exploraciones del discurso barroco (1998) Política de la escritura en América Latina, De la Colonia a la Modernidad (1997). She has edited Relecturas del Barroco de Indias (1994), La imaginación histórica en el siglo XIX (w/ Lelia Area) (1994), Mujer y cultura en la colonia hispanoamericana (1997), Angel Rama y los estudios latinoamericanos (1997), Indigenismo hacia el fin del milenio. Homenaje a Antonio Cornejo Polar (1998), Uruguay: Imaginarios culturales (3 vols., two forthcoming) (2000), Espacio urbano, Comunicación y Violencia en América Latina (2000). She has also published more than fifty articles on colonial and contemporary Spanish American literatures and cultural criticism.

As director of publications of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, an elected position that Professor Moraña has held since 1996, she has refurbished the internationally known Revista Iberoamericana, and the book series Biblioteca de América, devoted to the collective volumes on topics related to Latin American literature and culture. In addition, Professor Moraña has created four new series of books: Criticas, devoted to the study of Latin American literary and cultural critics; Nuevo Siglo, which publishes theses and monographs by a single author on Latin American topics; and Tres Rios, which publishes articles resulting from international conferences and symposia; finally, the series ACP (honoring Antonio Cornejo-Polar, former professor in the Department and President of the IILI and internationally known literary critic) concentrates on collective volumes on Latin American canonical writers.