Departments and Programs

• Jewish Studies
• Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies
• Spanish and Portuguese
• Women's and Gender Studies

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanport/people/merino.html

Contact Information

Email: ana.merino@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2140
Office: 6072 Dartmouth Hall

Education

Rijksuniversitiet, Groningen, The Netherlands; Lincenciatura Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; M.A. Ohio State University; Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh

Areas of Expertise

Contemporary Latin American literature and culture, transatlantic cultural studies: issues of ideology and power, Spanish literature (poetry), women's studies, childhood poverty and marginality and comics/graphic novel criticism

Selected Works

• "Variable Identities in the Mexican Comic-Strip: Don Catarino in the Stereotypical Space of the Cannibals," International Journal of Comic Art, 8:1 (Spring/Summer 2006) 362-377.
• Chris Ware: La secuencia circular, (2005).
• Del Fanzine al Manga Yaoi: Lesbianes, gais i transsexuals al cómic, edited with J Acebrón, (2005).
• El Cómic Hispánico, (2003).
• Fantagraphics creadores del canon, (2003).

Current Projects

"El Tebeo español en vías de extinción;" Boletín Galego de Literatura;" "The Bros. Hernández: A Latin Presence in Alternative U.S. Comics;" essay in Redrawing the Nation: Latin/o American Comic and the Graphic Construction of Cultural Identities