Castillo, Debra Ann
Professorresearch
research and scholarship focus
- Contemporary narrative of the Americas
- Women's Studies
- Post-colonial literary theory
international geographic focus
- France | country
- Latin America | trans-national region
- Spain | country
- United Kingdom | country
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- Comparative Literature (COM L) | Cornell department
- Cornell in Rome | academic program office
- Romance Studies (ROM S) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Comparative Literature | graduate field
- Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies | minor graduate field
- Latin American Studies | minor graduate field
- Latino Studies | minor graduate field
- Romance Studies | graduate program
other Cornell affiliations
- Cornell in Rome | academic program office
- Latino Studies Program | academic program office
staff member in
- Latin American Studies Program (LASP) | academic program office
teaching
teaching focus
- Hispanic Theater Production (Teatrotaller)
- Latin American Women Writers
- Post-Revolutionary Mexican Fiction
- U.S. Latino Prose
- Hispanic Feminisms
teaches
- LATA 3010 - Hispanic Theater Production (MW 07:30:PM-10:30:PM) | fall 2009 class
- LSP 3010 - Hispanic Theater Production (MW 07:30:PM-10:30:PM) | fall 2009 class
- SPAN 3010 - Hispanic Theater Production (MW 07:30:PM-10:30:PM) | fall 2009 class
- SPAN 4190 - Special Topics in Hispanic Literature (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- SPAN 6390 - Special Topics in Hispanic Literature (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- LATA 3010 - Hispanic Theater Production (MW 07:30:PM-10:30:PM) | fall 2008 class
- LSP 4130 - Classics Of Latino/A Lit (MW 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2008 class
- SPAN 3010 - Hispanic Theater Production (MW 07:30:PM-10:30:PM) | fall 2008 class
- SPAN 4130 - Classics Of Latino/A Lit (MW 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2008 class
service
outreach focus
- Among the courses she teaches regularly are Hispanic Theater Production (Teatrotaller) http://www.csma-ithaca.org/
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)
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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.
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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)
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- 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