Thomas F. Anderson
Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Director, Latin American Studies Program
(PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1998)
126 Decio Hall
574-631-8448
email: tanders6@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/anderson-thomas/
Geographic focus: Latin America, Hispanic Caribbean.
Thematic interests: Hispanic Caribbean literature and culture; Afro-Cuban studies, human rights, U.S.-Latin American relations.
Selected publications: Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo (University Press of Florida, 2011); Everything in its Place: The Life and Works of Virgilio Piñera (Bucknell University Press, 2006); “Piñera y la política: escritos en Revolución y Lunes,” in Revista Iberoamericana (2009); “Marcelino Arozarena’s Divergent Depictions of Afro-Cuban Cultural Manifestations,” Afro-Hispanic Review (2008); “Carnival, Cultural Debate, and Cuban Identity in ‘La comparsa’ and ‘Comparsa habanera,’” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (2006); “Hunger and Revolution: A New Reading of Virgilio Piñera’s El flaco y el gordo,” Latin American Theatre Review (2005); “The Politics of Consumption and Excretion in “Termina el Desfile” by Reinaldo Arenas,” Caribe (2001–2002); “Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Images of Collective Suffering in the Poetry of Pedro Mir,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (2001).
