Kimberle López
Associate Professor Kimberle López received an appointment in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of New Mexico in 1994. She maintains a geographical emphasis on Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Guatemala and specializes in 19th and 20th century narrative. López offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate level courses covering topics such as the canonical short stories from South American authors; representations of ethnic, racial, class, cultural, and gender identity in historical and fictional texts; and the fundamentals of conducting research in the field of literary and cultural studies. She has published articles on Latin American narrative in Colonial Latin American Review, Luso-Brazilian Review, Letras Femeninas, Chasqui and Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, and is the author of the book, Latin American Novels of the Conquest: Reinventing the NewWorld, (2002) which examines the ambivalent representation of Euro-American contact in a corpus of recent Latin American historical fictions that rewrite the chronicles of the conquest and colonization of the Americas.
Education
- PhD in Spanish, University of California, Berkeley (1994)
- MA in Spanish, University of California, Berkeley (1989)
- BA in Spanish, Russian and French, Portland State University (1987)
Research Areas
- 19th And 20th Century Narrative
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Guatemala
Latin American Studies Courses
- SPAN 430 Spanish American Short Story
- SPAN 639 El Cuento Hispanoamerica
- SPAN 639 Women Transgressing Roles
- SPAN 439 Women Crossing Borders
- SPAN 431 Spanish American Lit Survey I
- SPAN 502 Pro-Seminar Research Critical Methods
- SPAN 307 Intro Hispanic Literature
- SPAN 639 Seminar: Spanish American Novela Telurica
- SPAN 629 19th Century Spanish Novel
- , SPAN 639 Spanish American Novels of the 19th Century
*Latin America-related courses offered during the past three years*