Welcome to the Department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Latin American and Peninsular Spanish Literature Faculty

Rosilie Hernández-Pecoraro, Associate Professor

Matthew J. Marr, Assistant Professor of Spanish

Dianna Niebylski, Professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature, Department Head

Gabriel Riera, Assistant Professor

Cristián A. Roa-de-la-Carrera, Associate Professor

Margarita Saona, Associate Professor

Silvia Rosman, Visiting Assistant Professor
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Rosilie Hernández-Pecoraro Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine; B.A., Boston University

Contact Details:
Location: 1709 UH
Phone No: 312-996-5845
Email id: rosieher@uic.edu

Major Interests:
16th and 17th Century Spanish Literature; Cervantes; Women Writers.

Selected Works:
• Bucolic Metaphors: History, Subjectivity, and Gender in the Early Modern Spanish Pastoral. Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures Series, edited by Frank A. Domínguez, University of North Carolina Press. Forthcoming.

• Disciplines on the Line: Feminist Research on Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latina Women. Co-edited with Anne J. Cruz and Joyce Tolliver. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta. 2003.

• “Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa and Isabel Correa: Competing Translators of Battista Guarini’s Il Pastor Fido.” Forthcoming in Romance Notes.

• “Busco la muerte en mi daño, que ella es vida a mi dolencia”: Diversas manifestaciones de la muerte en La Galatea.” Estas primicias del ingenio: Jóvenes Cervantistas en Chicago. Eds. Francisco Caudet and Kerry Wilks. Madrid: Editorial Castalia, 2003. 113-33.

• “Isabel Correa’s Transformative Translation of Guarini’s Il Pastor Fido.” Disciplines on the Line: Feminist Research on Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latina Women. Eds. Anne J. Cruz, Rosilie Hernández-Pecoraro, and Joyce Tolliver. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2003. 125-44.

• “Jarifa’s Choice: A Gendered Reading of El Abencerraje y la hermosa Jarifa.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies. LXXIX (2002): 429-446.

• “Don Quixote’s Dorotea: Portrait of a Female Subject.” Hispanófila. 135 (2002): 19-39.

• “La fuerza del amor or the Power of Self-Love: Zayas´s response to Cervantes´s La fuerza de la sangre.” Hispanic Review. 70 (2002): 39-57.

• “The Absence of the Absence of Woman: Cervantes’s Don Quixote and the Explosion of the Pastoral Tradition.” Cervantes. XVIII.1 (1998): 24-45.

• “Cervantes's La Galatea: Feminine Spaces, Subjects, and Communities.” Pacific Coast Philology. XXXIII (1998): 15-30.

Fellowships/Awards:

Monticello College Foundation Fellowship (Newberry Library)

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Matthew J. Marr
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., M.A., University of Virginia; A.B., College of William & Mary

Contact Details:
Location: 1719 UH
Phone: 312-996-0259
E-mail: mjmarr@uic.edu

Major Interests:
Modern and contemporary Peninsular Spanish narrative and cultural studies; twentieth-century Hispanic poetry; comparative literature and film studies.

Selected Publications:

• Postmodern Metapoetry and the Replenishment of the Spanish Lyrical Genre, 1980-2000. Anstruther, Fife, Scotland, UK.: La Sirena, 2007.

• “Realism on the Rocks in the Generational Novel: ‘Rummies’, Rhythm, and Rebellion in Historias del Kronen & The Sun Also Rises.” Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture. Eds. Christine Henseler & Randolph Pope. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP. (Forthcoming)

• “An Ambivalent Attraction?: Post-Punk Kinship and the Politics of Bonding in Historias del Kronen and Less Than Zero.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 10. (Forthcoming)

• “Stepping Westward from Spain: Literary and Cultural Reversal in Recent Transatlantic Academic Novels by Josefina Aldecoa, Javier Cercas, & Antonio Muñoz Molina.” Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea. (Forthcoming)

• “Mapping the Space of Self: Cartography and the Narrative Act in Esther Tusquets’s El mismo mar de todos los veranos.” Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 29.1 (2004): 217-33.

• “Out of the Office: Comic Self-Derision as a Vacation from Solemnity in the Postmodern Metapoetry of Roger Wolfe.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 56.2 (2003): 421-432.

• “Formal Subversion and Aesthetic Harmony in Mascarilla y trébol: A Reconsideration of Alfonsina Storni’s Late Poetics.” Romance Quarterly 49.1 (2002): 50-60.

• “’Dolor común’: Ontological (In)security in Unamuno’s Rosario de sonetos líricos.” España Contemporánea 14.1 (2001): 43-57.

• “(Anti)heroism in Ángel Ganivet’s Los trabajos del infatigable creador Pío Cid.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 54 (2001): 231-37.

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Dianna Niebylski
Department Head
Professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature

Contact Details:
Location: 1732 UH
Phone No.: 312-413-4927
Email id: dcn@uic.edu

Major Interests:
20th-21st Century Latin American Literature and Culture; Globalization and New Aesthetics in Latin American Literature; Trans-American Studies; Gender Studies

Selected Publications:

• Rosario Ferré. Maldito amor y otros cuentos. Edición crítica, introducción y notas de Dianna Niebylski.. AULA series in Contemporary Latin American Authors. Mexico, DF: Fondo de Educacion y Cultura, 2006.

• Humoring Resistance: Laughter, Bodies and Excess in Latin American Women’s Fictions. State University of New York Press, 2004.

• The Poem on the Edge of the Word: The Limits of Language and the Uses of Silence in the Poetry of Mallarmé, Rilke, and Vallejo. New York: Peter Lang, Inc., 1993.

• “Patologías postmodernas: Reflexiones sobre los poderes de la abyección en Sólo los elefantes encuentran mandrágora de Armonía Somers.” El salto de Minerva. Intelectuales, género y Estado en América Latina. Eds. Mabel Moraña and María Rosa Olivera-Williams. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2006: 254-268.

• “Caught in the Middle. Ambiguous Gender and Social Politics in Sabina Berman’s Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 39 (2005): 154-177.

• “Hacia una estética de la carencia: estrategias formales de resistencia en Diamela Eltitt.” La Torre (TE). Año X, Núm 38 (2005): 480-500.

• “Gramática y geografía de la carencia en Boca de lobo de Sergio Chejfec.” Dale no más, dale que va: autores Argentinos contemporaneos. Buenos Aires: Editorial Nueva Generación, 2005: 211-229.

• “Estéticas de la carencia en Mano de obra de Diamela Eltit.” Studies in Honor of Denah Lida. Ed. Mary Berg. Potomac, MD: Scripta Humanistica, 2004: 213-219.

• “Passion or Heartburn? The Uses of Humor in Esquivel’s and Arau’s Like Water for Chocolate.” In Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation. Eds. Robert Stam and Allesandra Raengo. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005: 252-271.

• “Refusing Translation in Exile: The ‘Language Barrier’ in César Vallejo’s Poemas humanos.” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Fall 2002. Vol. 35, No. 2: 88-99.

• “Translating in and Across Cultures. Editor’s Introduction.” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Vol. 35, No. 2 (Fall 2002): 1-4.

• “Lenguaje y desposesión en el exilio: Poemas humanos.” Hispanic Poetry Review. Vol 3, No. 5 (May 2002):1-15.

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Gabriel Riera
Assistant Professor
Ph. D. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine.

Contact Details:
Location: 1723 UH
Phone No.: 312-996-5218
Email id: griera@uic.edu

Major Interests:
Twentieth-century Literature, Literary Theory, Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature

Selected Publications:

• Intrigues: From Being to the Other (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006).

• Littoral of the Letter: Saer’s Art of Narration (Lewisburg/London: Bucknell University Press, 2006).

• Alain Badiou: Philosophy and its Conditions (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005).

• “Alain Badiou: The Event of Thinking,” in Gabriel Riera (Ed.), Alain Badiou: Philosophy and its Conditions (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005), 1-20.

• “For an Ethics of Mystery: Philosophy and the Poem,” in Gabriel Riera (Ed.), Alain Badiou: Philosophy and its Conditions (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005), 61-86.

• “Procedures of Truth and Figues of the Subjet in Alain Badiou’s Logiques du Monde,” in Cardozo Law Review, special issue “Alain Badiou: Law and the Event,” forthcoming.

• “L’ innefaçable difference: Blanchot chez Levinas,” in Un siècle avec Levinas, Eric Hoppenot, (Ed.) (Paris: L’Harmattan, forthcoming).

• “Reading The Otherwise: Faced To The Impossible Real”, in Reading Otherwise: The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism, Erin Graff Zivin (Ed.) (New York: Palgrave, forthcoming).

• “Intrigue: l’épreuve du temps chez Blanchot,” in A. Coors (Ed.), L’Epreuve du temps dans l’écriture de Maurice Blanchot (Paris: Édition Complicités, 2006).

• “Juan José Saer,” in Bill Marshall (Ed.), France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, History (Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2005).

• “’Regia victoria’ o más acá del fantasma (Encuentros con lo real en La pesquisa),” Revista Iberoamericana, 215-216: (2006), 415-432.

• “‘The One Does Not Exist’: Borges and Modernity’s Predicament,” Romance Studies, 24.1 (March 2006).

• “Repetición, libro y anti-Libro: reflecciones sobre la intertextualidad en Borges,” Variaciones Borges: Journal of Philosophy, Semiotics and Literature, 20 (2005).

• “Poetic Language: Between Allusion and Commentary (Ingratitude, or Blanchot in Lévinas II), Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 9: 3, (2004): 121-135.

• “The Possibility of the Poetic Said in Otherwise than Being (Allusion, or Blanchot in Lévinas I),” Diacritics, 34: 2, (2004), 14-36.

• “Intrigas del otro (Lévinas/Blanchot),”Etcétera, Fundación Descartes, Círculo de Actualización Filosófica, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2003).

• “Fidelidad al acontecimiento: Memoria, trauma y narración en Saer,” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, 57: 91-106 (2003).

• “Narrative and Film,” Juan José Saer, Entrevistas de Princeton, Cuadernos de PLAS, (2002).

• “Don du poème: Alain Badiou After the ‘Age of Poets’,”(a): The Journal of Culture and the Unconscious 1, (2000).

• “Abyssal Grounds: Lacan and Heidegger on Truth,” qui parle? IX: 2, Spring/Summer, 51-76 (1996).

• “La ficción de Saer: ¿una antropología especulativa? (Una lectura de El entenado),” MLN 111: 2, 368-90 (1986).

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Cristián A. Roa-de-la-Carrera
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University



Contact Details:
Location: 1710 UH
Phone No: 312-996-0125
Email id: roa@uic.edu

Major Interests:
16th-century Spanish American colonial writing, ethics and politics.

Selected Works:
• Chimalpahin and the Conquest of Mexico by Francisco López de Gómara, Anne J. Cruz, Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera, Susan Schroeder, and David E. Tavarez, eds. and trans., Codex Chimalpahin, volume 5, Susan Schroeder, gen. ed. Forthcoming.

• Histories of Infamy: Francisco López de Gómara and the Ethics of Spanish Imperialism. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005.

• “El Nuevo Mundo como problema de conocimiento: Américo Vespucio y el discurso geográfico del siglo XVI,” Hispanic Review 70.4 (Autumn 2002): 557-80.

• “La historia de Indias y los límites del consenso: Gómara en la cultura del imperio,” Colonial Latin American Review 10.1 (2001): 69-86.

Exhibits:
The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico

Fellowships/Awards:
NEH Collaborative Translation Award. Susan Schroeder, Project Director.
Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago.

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Margarita Saona
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University; M.Phil., Columbia University; Licenciatura, Universidad Católica del Perú, B.A. Universidad Católica del Perú

Contact Details:
Location: 1711 UH
Phone No: 312 996 5222
Email id: saona@uic.edu

Major Interests:
Contemporary Latin American Literature; national identities, family, and gender; modernity and posmodernity in Latin America; utopian and dystopian narratives; trauma studies.

Selected Works:

• Novelas Familiares: Figuraciones de la nación en la novela latinoamericana contemporánea. Rosario, Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2004.

• “Los márgenes de la paria potestad: El Dock de Matilde Sánchez y la familia argentina después del proceso”. Actas del XIV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. New York, 16-21 de Julio de 2001. Ed. De Isaías Lerner, Robert Nival y Alejandro Alonso. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004.

• ”Pierced Tongues: Language and Violence in Carmen Boullosa’s Dystopia.” Body and Violence: Race, Gender, and the State. Ed. Arturo Aldama. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.

• “Do we Still Need the Family to Imagine the Nation? National Family Romances by Latin American Women Writers.” Disciplines on the Line: Feminist Research on Spanish, Latin American, and Latina Women. Co-editors: Anne Cruz, Rosilie Hernandez-Pecoraro, and Joyce Tolliver. Newark, DL: Juan de la Cuesta, 2003.

• “Borges, ‘El Sur’ y la nación imaginada”. Inti. Revista de Literatura Hispánica. 55-56 (Primavera 2002-Otoño 2002): 139-148.

• “El kibbutz del deseo: familia y nación en Rayuela”. Lexis 23 (1999): 87-105.

• “La búsqueda de la identidad en La nave de los locos de Cristina Peri Rossi.” Romance Review. 6 (Fall 1996): 149-157.

Fellowships, Awards, Honors:
Institute for the Humanities Fellow
Recognition by the Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Faculty Who Makes a Difference
Faculty in Residence of the Year

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Silvia Rosman
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish
Ph.D., Princeton University

Contact Details :
Location : 1625 UH
Phone No :312-996-2425
Email : srosman@uic.edu

Major Interests:
Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture, Visual Cultures, Psychoanalysis, Film Studies, Political Theory

Selected Publications:

Sobre la responsabilidad: Etica, escritura e imagen en la posdictadura argentina (forthcoming)

Being in Common: Nation, Subject and Community in Latin America Literature and Culture. London/Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2003.

Dislocaciones culturales: Nación, sujeto y comunidad en América Latina. Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2003.

“La Otra América: Disputas sobre el nombre en ‘Benito Cereno’ de Herman Melville,” Benito Cereno, Nostromo y Cía: Imaginarios y Américas. (Serie Montevideana No. 3) Ed. Beatriz Vegh. Montevideo: Linardi y Risso, 2006.

“Entre el deseo y la memoria: los relatos de viaje en el Río de la Plata”, Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies, 3:1 (Fall 2005). [Special Issue: “Travel Narratives: From Columbus to the New Age”]

“La comunidad por-venir”, ARAUCARIA (Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política y Humanidades) (Spain), Año 6, No, 13, 2005.

“Las vueltas de Guillermo Enrique Hudson: errancias de la crítica y desplazamientos de la memoria” in Hudson y La tierra purpúrea - Reflexiones desde Montevideo (Serie Montevideana No. 2) Eds. Jean-Philippe Barnabé and Beatriz Vegh. Montevideo: Linardi y Risso, 2005.

“The Legacy of a Decision: Motherhood and Militancy in Matilde Sánchez’s El Dock.” MLN 118: 2, March 2003.

“The Poetics of Politics and the Politics of the Poets: Experience and Testimony in Pablo Neruda” in T. Longo, ed., Neruda’s Legacy and the U.S. Culture Industry. New York: Routledge, 2002.

“Politics of the Name: On Borges’ ‘El Aleph.’” Variaciones Borges 14 (October 2002).

“Fragmentos: Ensayo y Nación en Martínez Estrada.” Boletín/10 (Rosario), December 2002.

Prologue to Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, El mundo maravilloso de Guillermo Enrique Hudson. Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2001.

“Of Travelers, Foreigners and Nomads: The Nation in Translation.” Latin American Literary Review XXVI: 51 (1998).

“Latin American Literary and Cultural Criticism in the U.S.” Latin American Research Review 32: 1 (1997).

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