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Jerome Branche


Bobby J. Chamberlain


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Professor Jerome Branche

Professor Jerome Branche is currently Director of Graduate Studies. His research orientation is towards the Black Atlantic, with emphasis so far on Afro-Hispanic Studies and the Caribbean. Recent publications include Colonialism and Race in Luso-Hispanic Literature (2006) and an edited volume, Lo que teníamos que tener: raza y revolución en Nicolás Guillen (2003). He is currently working on a monograph to be titled Transatlantic Musings: The Poetics of Philosophy of Diaspora, while editing respectively Race, Coloniality and Social Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Diversity across the Curriculum, A Guide for Faculty in Higher Education. Recent essays include "Sub-poena: Slavery, Subjugation and 'Sufferation' in Juan Francisco Manzano", Vol. 155, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, 2005, and "The Dreadren and the Message: Mythopoiesis and Martyrdom in Caribbean Literature," in Latin American Narrative and Cultural Identity 2004.


Professor Bobby J. Chamberlain

Professor Bobby J. Chamberlain specializes in Portuguese language and Brazilian literature, with a concentration on the prose fiction of Brazilian modernism and postmodernism, and on contemporary literary theory.A two-time Fulbright scholar, Professor Chamberlain has served as national chairman of the AATSP Task Force for the Promotion of Portuguese (1979-84) and a member of the MLA Luso- Brazilian Division executive committee (1981-86) and has sat on the editorial boards of the Revista Iberoamericana (1985-87) and Chasqui (1981-98). He was the director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Brazil Studies Program from 1999 to 2001 and is currently secretary-treasurer of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (1996-present).


Professor Elizabeth Monsasterios

Born in La Paz, Bolivia, Elizabeth Monasterios received her "Licenciatura en Literatura" from the Universidad Mayor de San Andres, and obtained her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1992, where the study of philosophy and poetry broadened her earliest training in Latin American and Andean literatures. She currently teaches Andean epistemology and Latin American poetry.

Monasterios has published numerous articles, has also edited two books on Latin American literature, and authored Dilemas de las poesia de fin de siglo: Jose Emilio Pacheco y Jaime Saenz. Recently, she has served as a co-ordinator and contributor for the Comparative History of Latin American Literature, edited by Mario J. Valdes, and to be published by the University of Oxford Press. Monasterios also chairs the Race and Ethnicity Track Committee for LASA 2003, serves as contributor-editor for the Handbook of Latin American Studies, and is a member of the executive committee of JALLA (Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana).