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Ana PeluffoAssociate Professor of Spanish Email: aopeluffo@ucdavis.edu |
Research Areas
Latin American literatures and cultures with an
emphasis on the 19th and early 20th century. Areas of
interest include gender and ethnicity, literature and the nation, Andean
and Southern Cone cultures, poetry and visual arts.
Current Projects
She is currently
working on a project on the politics of sentimentality in
Book
Lágrimas andinas: Sentimentalismo, género y virtud republicana en Clorinda Matto de Turner. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Serie Nuevo Siglo, 2005.
Selected Articles
"Why Can't an Indian be More like a Man?: Sentimental Bonds in Manuel González Prada
and Clorinda Matto de Turner" (Revista de
Estudios Hispánicos 38, 2004);
"Latin American Ophelias: The
Aesthetization of Female Death in Nineteenth-Century Poetry" (Latin American Literary Review,
forthcoming); "Las trampas del naturalismo en Blanca Sol: Prostitutas y
costureras en el paisaje urbano de Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera" (Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana 2002); "El indigenismo
