Castillo, Debra Ann

Professor

research

research and scholarship focus

  • Contemporary narrative of the Americas
  • Women's Studies
  • Post-colonial literary theory

international geographic focus

affiliations

faculty appointment in

member of graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

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service

outreach focus

background

awards and distinctions

  • Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
  • Honorable mention, Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for her book Talking Back: Strategies for a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism 

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • Books:

    • Re-dreaming America: Toward a Bilingual Understanding of American Literature. Albany: SUNY, 2004.
    • Border Women: Writing from la Frontera (Minn: U Minn P, 2002). Co-author, Maria Socorro Tabuenca Cordoba.
    • Lecturas interculturales (with Julio López Arias). Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, 2002.
    • ed., with Mary Jo Dudley and Breny Mendoza. Rethinking Feminisms in the Americas. Ithaca: Latin American Studies Program, 2001.
    • ed., with José Edmundo Paz Soldán. Beyond the Lettered City: Latin American Literature and Mass Media. Hispanic Issues series. Garland, 2000.
    • ed., with Mary Jo Dudley. Transforming Cultures in the Americas. Ithaca: Latin American Studies Program, 2000.
    • Easy Women: and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction, Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P., l998.
    • Trans. and Intro., Tijuana: Stories on the Border by Federico Campbell. Berkeley: U of California P., l995.
    • Talking Back: Toward a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism. Ithaca: Cornell UP, l992.
    • The Translated World: A Postmodern Tour of Libraries in Literature. Tallahassee: Florida State UP, l984.
  • In progress:

    • Este ambiente de noche: La prostitución femenina en Tijuana (with María Gudelia Rangel Gómez, Armando Rosas Solís, and Carlos Castillo-Chavez).
    • Umbilical Objects (with Edmundo Paz-Soldán and Javier Durán)
    • Talking Back: Strategies for a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992)
    • Easy Women: Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998) 
    • Border Women: Writing from la Frontera (Minn: U Minn P, 2002). Co-author, Maria Socorro Tabuenca Cordoba.

contact

email address

dac9@cornell.edu