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Ramona Lagos
Associate Professor of Spanish

Phone:  (803) 777-8123; 777-4884 (messages)
Fax:      (803) 777-0454
E-mail: lagosr@gwm.sc.edu

 Education

B.A.:  
Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 1966
M.A.:  Universidad de Concepción, Chile, 1976
Ph.D.: The University of Arizona, 1982
 
 Teaching Interests
Language: All levels.

Survey courses: Spanish American literature, all genres & periods. Cross-cultural studies including women’s studies, literary criticism. film and mass media.

Monographic Courses: Seminars on diverse Spanish-American literature writers and/or topics from the 16th century to the present. Emphasis on colonial and contemporary literature and culture, women writers, testimonial literature; literary theory and textual praxis.



 Research Interests


Spanish American Literature and Culture
Spanish-American Cinema
Hispanic women writers
Literary theory, literary criticism

 

 Selected Publications and Presentations


BOOKS IN PRINT:

Jorge Luis Borges. 1923-1980: Laberintos del espíritu, interjecciones del cuerpo. Barcelona: Ediciones del Mall, 1986. 318 pp.

Varia Colección: Ensayos sobre literatura hispanoamericana. New York: Peter Lang, 1989. 310 pp.

Metáforas de lo indecible: Gioconda Belli, Lucía Guerra, Ángeles Mastretta. Chile: Cuarto Propio, 2003. 258 pp.

ARTICLES IN PRINT:

"Tentación y penitencia en Al filo del agua, de Agustín Yáñez." Atenea. (Chile), 419 (1968), 105-122. Reprinted in Homenaje a Agustín Yáñez. Ed. Helmy Giacoman (Madrid:Anaya, 1973), 167-190. Reprinted in Novelistas hispanoamericanos. Ed. Juan Loveluck (Madrid: Taurus, 1976), 115-126.

"Tres aspectos significativos de Ternura, de Gabriela Mistral." Humanitas, 13 (México, 1972), 243-260.

"Las tierras flacas: Capitalismo agrícola e ideología." Nueva Narrativa Hispanoamericana, 4. Ed. Helmy Giacoman. (Madrid: Edit. Anaya, 1974), 145-170.



Professional Organizations

Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (Revista Iberoamericana).
Asociación de intelectuales chilenos (Chilean Embassy, U.S.A)
Southwest Council for Latin American Studies (SCOLAS)
Asociación de literatura femenina hispánica. (Letras femeninas)
The South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS)

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