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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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Ana Peluffo

Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., New York University

Email: aopeluffo@ucdavis.edu
Office: 710 Sproul Hall
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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" ( 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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