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Faculty: Wasserspring . Renjilian-Burgy. Oles . Levitt . Roses Degrees: B.A. Mount Holyoke College M.A. Harvard University Ph.D. Harvard University Universidad Aut-noma de Madrid, certificate of studies Teaching Interests and Activities She devotes herself to contemporary Latin America writing in all its multiple dimension gender, class, politics, and culture with special emphasis on Mexico and the Caribbean. Her courses examine the role of family, gender memory, and political turmoil on the imagination of Latin American literature. She regularly teaches "fantasy and revolution" (taught in English), "Latin American Short Story," "The Literary World of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and "Realism and Magic Realism in Literature and Film. " She has engaged in interdisciplinary teaching with colleagues from Political Science, Anthropology, and Africana Studies. Research Interests and Activities The history and culture of Caribbean islands area is a major focus of her research, and she has traveled to many of the islands in pursuit of primary sources. Her first book dealt with the literary career of Cuban exile author (Voices of The Storyteller: Cuba's Lino Nova). A second line of her research focuses on Black women writers of the Harlem Renaissance Era. With a former students she published a reference book called Harlem Renaissance and Beyond (Macmillan, 1990) and an Anthology, Harlem's Glory Black Women Writing, 1900-1950 (Harvard University Press, 1996). AS CALVO, Greenwood Press). She has also worked on the evolution of magical realism as an aesthetic phenomenon and women writers of Mexico.
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