Committee on Degrees in History and Literature at Harvard

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• NAME: Karen Elizabeth Bishop (Starting in History and Literature in September 2008)
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: Latin America; North America; Modern Europe (France); Postcolonial Studies
• Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara (Comparative Literature)
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
  • 20th-century Latin American literature (emphasis on Southern Cone)
  • 20th-century North American poetry and poetics
  • 19th- and 20th-century French and Francophone literature
  • 20th-century Literature of the Americas
  • Exile studies
  • Historical subjectivity under dictatorships
  • Peronism
  • The Argentine “Dirty War” (1976-1983): its politics, ethics, literature, representation
  • Torture: literature of torture; politics of torture; philosophy of human rights; disappearance
  • Testimonio
  • Philosophies of history, particulary 19th- and 20th- centuries
  • History and memory
  • History of literary forms, particularly Western poetics; the 19th- and 20th-century novel; and documentary narrative
  • Contemporary comparative poetics
  • Practice and theories of translation
  • Philosophies of space and place
  • Urban studies; architecture and literature
  • Critical and literary theory
• DISSERTATION TOPIC OR TITLE: "Mapping the Disappearing World: A Poetics of Exile and Emplacement"
• E-MAIL ADDRESS: kebishop@umail.ucsb.edu
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• HOME PHONE: 805.893.1695

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• Phone: (617) 495-4029 | Fax: (617) 496-5605 | Email: histlit@fas.harvard.edu

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