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 Politics of Representation, has been accepted for publication by Vanderbilt University Press and is set to appear in 2009. 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
