Sara Castro-Klarens: Transatlantic Studies and National Literatures

Thursday, May 22, 2008

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Literature Building, Room 155 (deCerteau)

Prof. Sara Castro-Klaren is a senior scholar in Latin American literature currently at the University of California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA and has taught at Darmouth College and John Hopkins University. Her current research focuses on colonial studies and postcolonial theory as well as on feminist criticism. Prof. Castro-Klaren’s talk is based on her on-going research and critique of the epistemological foundations of literature programs in Spanish in the United States and of the relation of these programs with the emerging field of transatlantic studies.

Sara Castro-Klaren has published several books, among them: El mundo mágico de José María Arguedas (1973), Escritura sujeto y transgresión en la literatura latinoamericana (1989), and Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa (1990). She is the editor of Narrativa femenina en América: prácticas y perspectivas teóricas (2003), and with Sylvia Molloy and Beatriz Sarlo she co-edited Women’s writing in Latin America: an anthology (1991).