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Dr. Ana Rodríguez Navas is our featured professor this academic year.

Ana Rodríguez Navas, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

 

Born in Venezuela and raised in Caracas, Trinidad and the United
States, I completed my B.A. at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
in Caracas before moving to France, where I studied Latin American
literature and literature of the Americas at the Université de Paris
III Sorbonne Nouvelle. I left Paris for New Jersey in 2004, and spent
the next several years at Princeton University, where I completed an
M.A. and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. My research focuses on
Hispanic Caribbean and broader Latin American literatures of the 20th
and 21st centuries. I am especially interested in the work of
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, whose novels, essays and screenplays I take
to engage with broader regional and global critical trends. Through
his texts, I reflect upon practices such as cultural and linguistic
translation, rewriting and gossip, and seek to establish literary and
critical dialogues between writers ranging from Rosario Ferré and
Junot Díaz to Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel de Cervantes and Oscar Wilde.

As an Assistant Professor of Spanish at UNCP, I teach various courses
on Latin American and Caribbean literature, film and visual arts, as
well as Spanish language. I am especially interested in transnational
literary exchanges, literary confluence, and in the intersections
between postcolonial theory, translation studies and national, global
and diaspora literatures. Other interests include Anglophone, French
and Russian literature and film, media and cultural studies, and
narrative theory.

 

Updated: Wednesday, September 28, 2011

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