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Latino/a Literature Area

The English Department at Ohio State University has a number of faculty who specialize in the study of Latino/a literature, film, comic books, music, and rhetoric as well as faculty who write and teach Latino/a fiction. While the dominant approaches are driven by aesthetic (narrative theory) and contextual material (social, historical, and cognitive) concerns, those who teach and publish in the area of Latino/a literature and culture keep centrally in mind that the advancement of knowledge in this field is always necessarily interdisciplinary.

English Faculty

Frederick Luis Aldama, Professor
Books: Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia: Conversations with Writers and Artists (2006); Critical Mappings of Arturo Islas's Narrative Fictions (2007); Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity (2005); Dancing With Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas; (2004); Postethnic Narrative Criticism (2003); Arturo Islas: The Uncollected Works (2003).
Courses: English 578.02 “Mexico in Cinema”; English 578.01 “Greed, Vengeance, and Love in Ethnic Technicolor”; English 581 “Introduction to Ethnic Literature Through a Short Story and Comic Book Lens”; Arts & Sciences 137.01 “Your Brain on Latino Fiction”
Manuel Martinez, Associate Professor
Books: Drift: A Novel ( 2003 ); Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomás Rivera (2003); Crossing (1998).
Courses: 578: Studies in Latino/a Literature and Culture; 588: Latino/a Literature and Culture; 788: Imaginative Writing.

Other OSU Faculty

Pat Enciso, Associate Professor, Education
Theresa Delgadillo, Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies
Lilia Fernandez, Assistant Professor, History
Guisela Latorre, Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies
Eugenia Romero, Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Ruby Tapia, Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies

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