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Sara Castro-Klaren Colonial and Feminist Latin American Literature Romance Languages and Literatures Telephone: 410-516-8790 Sara Castro-Klaren is Professor of Latin American Culture and Literature at The Johns Hopkins University. Her fields of specialization are the Modern Latin American Novel, Literary and Cultural Theory and Colonial Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California in Los Angeles in l968. She taught at Dartmouth College (l970-83) and chaired the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (l979-82). She was the Chief of the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress for three years and joined the Hopkins faculty in the Spring of l987. She has been the recipient of several teaching awards. Most recently the Foreign Service Institute conferred upon her the title of "Distinguished Visiting Lecturer" (l993). She was appointed to the Fulbright Board of Directors by President Clinton in 1999. Her research and publications have been sustained by a combined interest in anthropology, literature and theory. Her publications include El mundo magico de Jose Maria Arguedas (l973), Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa (l990) and Escritura, Sujeto y transgresion en la Literature latinoamericana (l989), along with Latin American Women Writers (l99l), ed. with Sylvia Molloy and Beatriz Sarlo. More recently she has published many chapters in collections dealing with her current book length projects: subaltern subjects and the representation of cannibalism.
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