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Name: Nina Gerassi-Navarro
Title: Associate Professor of Latin American Literature
Departmental Affiliation: Romance Languages Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Columbia University; M.Phil Columbia University; M.A. Columbia University; B.A. Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires
Expertise: Nineteenth-Century Latin American literature; Nation building; The culture of outlaws; Visual culture and film studies; Travel narratives; Popular culture
E-mail: nina.gerassi@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Books

Más allá de lo transatlántico. Co-edited with Eyda Merediz (Pittsburgh: Biblioteca de América, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, University of Pittsburgh, expected Fall 2009)

Pirate Novels: Metaphors of Nation Building in Spanish America (Duke University Press, 1999)

Recent Articles

"La literatura de cordel: el delito colectivo en la era de la modernización," Iberoamericana America Latina-España-Portugal 29 (Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, marzo, 2008): 143-156.

“Antônio Silvino, el otro “gobernador del sertão” The Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies vol. 4, 2007: 35-48

“Latin American Cinema,” Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia 2 vols. Michael Frances ed. (California: ABC-CLIO, 2006) vol. 1: 222-227

"Turning Cannibalism Inside Out: Re-reading the Chronicles in 'Como era gostoso o meu francês," Bridging Continents: Cinematic and Literary Representations of Spanish and Latin American Themes eds. Nora Glickman & Alejandro Varderi (Tempe: Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana, 2005): 11-23

“Between Empires: Fanny Calderón de la Barca” co-authored with Amy Kaplan Symbiosis 9.1 (April, 2005): 3-27

“Crímenes literarios, juegos de bandidos: la literatura de cordel,” Heterotropías: narrativasde identidad y alteridad latinoamerica, eds. Carlos Jáuregui y Juan Pablo Dabove (Pittsburgh: Biblioteca de América, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, University of Pittsburgh, 2003): 197-210.

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