Departments and Programs

• Comparative Literature
• Spanish and Portuguese

Related Links

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

Contact Information

Email: rebecca.e.biron@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-1462
Office: 6072 Dartmouth Hall

Education

B.A. University of Georgia; Ph.D. University of Iowa

Areas of Expertise

Mexican literature; globalization and Mexico; Latin American film

Selected Works

• "Marvel, Monster, Myth: the City in Latin American Literature," Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Architectures of Latin America, J-F Lejeune (ed.) (2003) 119-133.
• "No se trata de la influencia, sino de la injerencia: Octavio Paz y Armonía Somers en diálogo con los modernistas anglo-europeos," La palabra y el hombre: revista de la Universidad Veracruzana, 121 (2002) 73-90.
• "Un hogar insólito: Elena Garro and Mexican Literary Culture," The Effects of the Nation: Mexican Art in an Age of Globalization, C Good and J V Waldron (eds.) (2001) 138-159.
• Murder and Masculinity: Violent Fictions of 20th-Century Latin America, (2000).
• "El tiempo femenino y los colonizados," Pensamiento y crítica: Los discursos de la cultura hoy, J Durán, R H Monroy and M Medina (eds.) (2000) 301-314.

Current Projects

City/Art: The Urban Scene in Latin America; "Death in el D.F.: Urban Fantasies of Aguilar Mora, J. J. Blanco, Ramírez, and Fuentes;" The Anxiety of Desire: Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams; Defining Obsessions: Modernization to Globalization in 20th-Century Mexican Culture; "Urban Romance; Allegories of Globalization in Amores perros and Y tu mamá también;" "El género imposible: feminismo y la novela-testimonio"