People
María Rosa Olivera-Williams
Associate Professor
of Spanish
Degrees
B.A.S., University of Toledo; M.A., Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Research Profile
Olivera-Williams focuses on 19th—21st-century Latin American literature, with special emphasis on the Southern Cone literature and culture, Women's literature and feminist criticism. Her book El salto de Minerva: Intelectuales, género y Estado en América Latina, co-edition with Mabel Moraña, has just been published by Iberoamericana-Vervuert (2005). She is also the author of La poesía gauchesca de Hidalgo a Hernández (1986) and numerous studies on a range of Spanish American authors. She is finishing a book-length manuscript The Art of Creating the Feminine: Power, Sexuality and Desire in Spanish American Women Writers of the Southern Cone, and working on a new research project, Changes in Urban Rhetoric: Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile. Professor Olivera-Williams, twice honored with a Kaneb Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education (1999; 2005), has been elected member of the executive committee of the division on Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature of the Modern Languages Association (2003-2007), and is the 2006 Nevada Humanities Scholar.
Contact Information
265
Decio Faculty Hall
631-7268
olivera-williams.1@nd.edu
