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Room 618, Sproul Hall
UC Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

(530) 752-0835 Undergrad phone
(530) 752-5799 Grad phone
(530) 752-8630 fax

 
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Linda Egan

Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Email: ldegan@ucdavis.edu, lindadeeegan@comcast.net
Office: 707 Sproul Hall
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Research Areas and Interests

Although she teaches in the general Latin American field, she specializes in Mexican literature and culture from the colony to the present, including Mexican novel, Mexican poetry, Mexican culture, colonial non-fiction genre (chronicle, essay, testimonial, documentary, journalism), Sor Juana, and cultural studies. Her emphases are in narrative (fiction and nonfiction) and poetry.

Recent Publications

Professor Linda Egan (UC Santa Barbara) has published principally on the contemporary chronicle of Mexico and the colonial poet sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Professor Egan's most recent work is the book Carlos Monsivais: Culture and Chronicle in Contemporary Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 2001).

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