Kristine Ibsen
Michael Grace II Professor of Latin American Studies
(PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, 1991)
161 Decio Faculty Hall
574-631-7563
email: kibsen@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/ibsen-kristine/
Geographic focus: Latin America (Mexico)
Thematic interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century historical narrative; women in colonial Spanish America; feminist studies.
Current research: Cultural representations of the Mexican Second Empire.
Selected publications: Books include Author, Text and Reader in the Novels of Carlos Fuentes (1993); The Other Mirror (1997), about contemporary Mexican women writers; Women's Spiritual Autobiography in Colonial Spanish America (1999); Memoria y deseo: Carlos Fuentes y el pacto de la lectura (2003); and Maximilian, Mexico and the Invention of Empire (forthcoming).
