Kristine Ibsen

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
(PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, 1991)
161 Decio Faculty Hall
574-631-7563
email: kibsen@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~romlang/faculty/ibsen.html

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: Articles on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Julio Cortázar, and Pablo Neruda, among others. 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); and Memoria y deseo: Carlos Fuentes y el pacto de la lectura (2003).