María Rosa Olivera-Williams

Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
(PhD, Ohio State University, 1983)
265 Decio Faculty Hall
574-631-7268
email: molivera@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~romlang/faculty/williams.html

Geographic focus: Latin America (Southern Cone)

Thematic interests: Spanish American literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries; women's writings; feminist studies.

Selected publications: El salto de Minerva: Intelectuales, género, Estado en América Latina, coedited with Mabel Moraña (Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2005); "La imaginación salvaje: Entrevista a Marosa Di Giorgio." Hispanic Poetry Review 3.2 (2001): 82-105; "La poética de Chesed: Juan Gelman," in La página. Juan Gelman: Poesía y Coreje; La poesía gauchesca de Hidalgo a Hernandez (1986); numerous studies of other Spanish American authors, including Cristina Peri-Rossi, Juan Carlos Onetti, José Emilio Pacheco, and Armonía Somers.