Thomas Anderson

Associate Professor; Undergraduate Coordinator, Program in Iberian
and Latin American Studies
(PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1998)
617 Flanner Hall
574-631-8448
email: tanders6@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~romlang/faculty/anderson.html

Geographic focus: Latin America (Caribbean)

Thematic interests: Hispanic Caribbean literature; postrevolutionary Cuban fiction; Afro-Cuban studies.

Selected publications: Carnival, Comparsas, and National Identity in Cuban Poetry, 1916–1961 (forthcoming); “Marcelino Arozarena’s Divergent Depictions of Afro-Cuban Carnival Ensembles,” Afro-Hispanic Review (forthcoming); Everything in Its Place: The Life and Works of Virgilio Piñera (2006); “Carnival, Cultural Debate, and Cuban Identity in ‘La comparsa’ and ‘Comparsa habanera,’” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos(Spring 2006); “Hunger and Revolution: A New Reading of Virgilio Piñera’s El flaco y el gordo,” Latin American Theatre Review (Spring 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).