People
Anke Birkenmaier | Faculty
Assistant Professor: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Affiliated Faculty: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Latino Studies, American Studies
Office: Ballantine Hall 861
TEL: 855-0639
Email: abirkenm
Education
Ph.D. Latin American Literature, Yale University, 2004
M.A. Spanish, French, Yale University, 2002
M.A. Spanish, French, and German, University of Tübingen, Germany,1998
Specializations
- Caribbean literature and culture
- Modern Latin American narrative
- Latin American anthropology
- Radio and media theory
- Latin American avant-gardes
Publications
Books
- Co-editor, with Esther Whitfield, Havana Beyond the Ruins. Cultural Mappings after 1989. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011
- Versionen Montezumas. Lateinamerika in der historischen Imagination des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mit dem vollständigen Manuskript von Oswald Spenglers Montezuma. Ein Trauerspiel (1897). Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2011
- Alejo Carpentier y la cultura del surrealismo en América Latina. Madrid: Vervuert-Iberoamericana, 2006.
- Cuba: un siglo de literatura (1902-2002). Co-edited with Roberto González Echevarría. Madrid: Colibrí, 2004.
Selected Articles
- "Introduction: Is there a Post-Cuban Literature?" Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 82. Special issue: "Cuba Inside and Out" (Spring 2011) (forthcoming).
- "El hispanismo en América. Literatura, estudios culturales y lingüística en el panorama actual." Nuevos hispanismos interdisciplinarios y trasatlánticos. Ed. Julio Ortega. Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2010. 199-213.
- "Art of the Pastiche: José Manuel Prieto's Rex and Cuban Literature of the 1990s." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 43. Special Issue: "Cuban Literature of the 1990s" (2009): 123-147.
- "From Surrealism to Popular Art: Paul Deharme's Radio Theory." Modernism/Modernity 16.2 (2009): 357-374.
- Dirty Realism at the End of the Century: Latin American Apocalyptic fictions."Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 40 (fall 2006): 489-512.
- "Travestismo latinoamericano: Sor Juana y Sarduy."Ciberletras 7: "Homenaje al centenario de la independencia de Cuba" (2002).
- "Más allá del realismo sucio: El rey de La Habana de Pedro Juan Gutiérrez." Cuban Studies 32 (2001): 37-55.
Honors and Awards
- Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2010).
- Premio Iberoamericano 2007 of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for Alejo Carpentier y la cultura del surrealismo en América Latina.
- Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities (2003-2004).
Current Research Projects
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“Engaged Observation. Latin American Anthropology and Literature Between the Wars (1918-1945).”
