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Romance Languages
Olin Center
180 Packard Avenue
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
Phone: (617) 627-2755
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Nina Gerassi-Navarro
Associate Professor of Latin American Literature

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

Major Awards: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2010-2011)

Scholarship & Research:

Books

• Revista Iberoamericana. Otros estudios transatlánticos: Lecturas desde lo latinoamericano. Co-edited with Eyda Merediz eds. Vol. 75. 228 (Pittsburgh, julio-septiember 2009).
   
• Pirate Novels: Metaphors of Nation Building in Spanish America (Duke University Press, 1999)

Recent Articles

• “Conflictos Imperiales: La mirada de Frances Calderón de la Barca,” Revista Iberoamericana: Otros estudios transatlánticos: Lecturas desde lo latinoamericano. Vol. 75. 228 (Pittsburgh, julio-septiembre 2009): 737-755.
   
• “Joaquín Murrieta: ícono de una identidad disputada” Cuadernos de Literatura Vol.13. #25, (Bogotá, junio-diciembre, 2008): 119-133.
   
• "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

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