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	Emilio Bejel Introduction Contact Information Publications & Lectures Honors Education Academic Experience Professional Organizations Faculty Previous | Next Ana Peluffo Associate Professor of Spanish Ph.D., New York University Email: aopeluffo@ucdavis.edu Office: 710 Sproul Hall Office Hours 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 Latin America, funded in part by an NEH Summer Stipend Grant.  She serves on the MLA Executive Committee for the Division on Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900. 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 como máscara: Antonio Cornejo Polar ante la obra de Clorinda Matto de Turner" (In Antonio Cornejo Polar y los estudios latinoamericanos, Friedhelm Shmidt-Welle, ed., 2002);  "El ennui y la invención de la barbarie en Flora Tristán y Etienne de Sartiges" (In América Latina:  Nuevas visiones desde los estudios literarios y culturales, Ignacio Miguel Sanchez Prado, ed., forthcoming)
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