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MarÍa Ospina

College Fellow in Romance Languages and Literatures

  • Office: Boylston Hall 408
  • Phone: (617) 495-8476
  • Fax: (617) 496-4682
  • E-mail: mospina@fas.harvard.edu
  • Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00-4:00, or by appointment
 

Academic Degrees: Ph.D., M.A., Harvard University; B.A. Brown University
Research Interests: Topographies of the Jungle in Contemporary Latin America; Violence,  Representation and History in Latin American Fiction; Contemporary  Colombian Culture; Memory, Trauma and Ethics in Latin American Fiction; Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Film and Literature;  Narco-Novelas, Sicarescas, and Representations of the Drug Trade; Latin American Film.
Recent Publications:
 Forthcoming: “’El Colombian Dream’ y los sueños de un nuevo cine colombiano”. Revista de Estudios Colombianos.

Cartas de la persistencia, Secretaría Distrital de Cultura, Bogotá, 2008.

“Sobre envíos epistolares y violencias: de cómo se cultiva la persistencia en Colombia”, in  ReVista, Harvard Review of Latin America, Spring 2008 .

“Las cartas sobre le mesa: la escritura epistolar y su público”.  Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango del Banco de la República, Bogotá, 2008.


Courses Offered in 2009-2010:
Spanish 90j. La juventud latinoamericana en el cine y la literatura - (New Course) [spring term]
Spanish 139. Trazar y tramar: La selva en la narrativa latinoamericana - (New Course) [fall term]
Spanish 159. Escrituras de la crisis: Violencia y narrativa en la Latinoamérica contemporánea - (New Course) [spring term]


For more information, go to the RLL course catalogue.


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Last updated on September 11, 2009