Rebecca Elizabeth Biron

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese;
Chair of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies

Departments and Programs Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies Spanish and Portuguese Comparative Literature Related Links Department of Spanish and Portuguese Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Comparative Literature Program

Contact Information

Email: rebecca.e.biron@dartmouth.edu

Phone: 603-646-1462

Hinman Box: HB 6072

Education

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

Areas of Expertise

• Latin American Cultural Studies; Mexico; Gender Studies; Globalization

Selected Works

• “Globalization,” in Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies, R Irwin and M Szurmuk (eds.), (2012) 160-166.
• City/Art: the Urban Scene in Latin America (ed.) (2009).
• “Muerte en el DF,” Género, Cultura y Sociedad 3 (2006) 79-116.
• “Marvel, Monster, Myth: The City in Latin American Literature,” in Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Architectures of Latin America , J-F Lejeune (ed.), (2003) 119-133.
• Murder and Masculinity: Violent Fictions of 20 ^th -Century Latin America (2000).
• “Joking Around with Mexican History: Parody in Ibargüengoitia, Castellanos, and Sainz,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 34 (2000) 479-498.
• “Feminist Periodicals and Political Crisis in Mexico : fem, debate feminista and La Correa Feminista in the 1990s,” Feminist Studies 22.1 (1996) 151-169.

Current Projects

• Elena Garro and Mexico’s Modern Dreams; Thinking through Trilogy: Globalization in 21st-Century Film