Hilda Chacón
My blogs
- Senior Seminar on Contemporary Latin America
- SPN314-Border Cultures: Mexico and the United States (Fall 2008)
Blogs I follow
- Contemporary Narratives of Latin America
- Contemporary Narratives of Latin America
- Latin American Literature Senior Seminar
- Latin American Senior Seminar
- Latin American Senior Seminar
- Latin American Senior Seminar
- Spanish Senior Seminar: Latin American Literature
- SPN 401G Spanish Seminar
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | College professor |
| Location | Rochester, NY |
| Introduction | Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at Nazareth College, in Rochester, NY. Has directed the Women’s Studies Program and the Emerson Language Lab. First career is journalism; has worked on radio, TV, and press media. Free-lance producer for Hispanic TV in the United States. Obtained her Ph.D. in Literature and Cultures of Latin America at The Ohio State University (1999). She has published several articles on Mexico-US cultural interactions, cyberspace and globalization, gender issues, contemporary films, testimonial, post-war narratives of Central America, and a book chapter entitled “Political Cartoons in Cyberspace: Rearticulating Mexican and US Cultural Identity in the Global Era”, in Mexico Reading the United States (Vanderbilt UP, 2008). She has also published some of her creative writing in Spain, Guatemala, and the United States. She is currently working in two book projects. She is member of the Modern Languages Association (MLA) Division Executive Committee on Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature (2009-2014). She has been appointed as Rose Marie Beston Chair for International Studies at Nazareth College (2009-2014). |
| Interests | Literature and culture of Latin America, Mexico-USA relationship, political cartoons in cyberspace, the Internet as a new medium, testimonial narratives, gender issues, graphic novel and comics production in Latin America. |
| Favorite Movies | Il nome della rosa (Italia), Amores perros (Mexico), Y tu mamá también (México), Children of Men (Mexico-England), El laberinto del fauno (Spain), and all the movies by Almodóvar (Spain): Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, Todo sobre mi madre, Volver, Hable con ella. Also all the movies by Ferzan Oztepek (Italy): Saturn in Opposition, Un giorno perfetto, Il bagno turco, Le fate ignoranti, La finestra di fronte, Le mine vaganti. |
| Favorite Music | Bossa nova, salsa, classic rock, nueva trova, Latin American folklore music, Latin jazz |
| Favorite Books | Too many to be listed here! Some of my favorite authors: Adrienne Rich, Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Luisa Valenzuela, Marguerite Yourcenar, Virginia Woolf, Uriel Quesada, Rosario Castellanos, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Elena Poniatowska, Carlos Monsiváis, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, Mabel Cuesta, Pablo Neruda, Julio Cortázar, etc, etc, etc! |
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