About

Mabel Moraña, the William H. Gass Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is professor of Spanish and director of the Latin American Studies Program. Her transdisciplinary research interests reach from colonial times to the present, including the Baroque, nationhood, and modernity; cultural criticism and cultural theory; and contemporary Latin American narrative, postcolonial studies, intellectual history, and gender and violence. The editor or coeditor of more than thirty books, she has authored nine, including most recently Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa. Dilemas y ensamblajes (Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2013). Moraña holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota.