People
Kristine Ibsen
Michael P. Grace II Professor of Latin American Studies
Degrees
B.A., California State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California,
Los Angeles
Research Profile
Professor Ibsen specializes in Spanish American literature with a particular interest in Mexican narrative. Her Author, Text and Reader in the Novels of Carlos Fuentes was published in 1993, and in 1997 she published The Other Mirror, a book on contemporary Mexican women writers. Her third book, Women's Spiritual Autobiography in Colonial Spanish America, appeared in 1999, and a fourth, Memoria y deseo: Carlos Fuentes y el pacto de la lectura, was published by the Fondo de Cultura Economica in 2003. Her most recent book, Maximilian, Mexico, and the Invention of Empire (Vanderbilt University Press, 2010) is a comparative study of the politics of representation. A Fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies and the Kellogg Institute, Ibsen has been a recipient of NEH and Fulbright fellowships, served as on-site director for the International Studies Program in Mexico and received a Kaneb Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to undergraduate education.
Contact Information
161 Decio Faculty Hall
631-7563
kibsen@nd.edu
