MarÍa Ospina
College Fellow in Romance Languages and Literatures
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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:
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


