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Kirsten Silva Gruesz Home  Directory Kirsten Silva Gruesz
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Transnational Americas studies; Chicano/Latino literatures and cultures; 19th-century U.S. and Latin American literature; poetry; history of the book; reading and literacy; bilingualism |
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FALL 2009: W 1:30-3 & by appt |
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My work is broadly based in the cultural and political relations between the U.S. and the rest of the Americas, particularly Mesoamerica and the Caribbean/Gulf coast. I am interested in the changing conditions of literary production and reception, as well as in the general question of how and why we make history. The nineteenth century is my usual period focus, but I also write about contemporary works by U.S. Latinas and Latinos, whose experiences are deeply rooted in the history of the Americas. I direct the Latino Literary Cultures Project/Proyecto culturas literarias latinas, an initiative focused on new Latino/a writing housed under the Chicano/Latino Research Center at UCSC. My current book project engages sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology to explore the changing ideologies surrounding Spanish-language usage in what is now the U.S., from the seventeenth century to the present. |
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"Maria Gowen Brooks, In and Out of the Poe Circle," ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 54 (fall 2008), 75-109.
"Lexical Snacks at the Citizen Restaurant: A Response to Vicki Ruiz," ASA Presidential Address forum in American Quarterly 60:2, March 2008.
"Walt Whitman, Latino Poet," in Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present, eds. Michael Robertson and David Haven Blake (U Iowa Press, Iowa Whitman Series, 2008).
"The Cafetal of María del Occidente and the Anglo-American Race for Cuba," in The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange, ed. Meredith McGill (Rutgers University Press, 2008).
"The Mercurial Space of 'Central' America: New Orleans, Honduras, and the Writing of the Banana Republic," in Hemispheric American Studies, eds. Caroline Levander and Robert S. Levine (Rutgers University Press, 2008).
"The Once and Future Latino: Notes Toward a Literary History todavía para llegar," in Contemporary US Latino/a Literary Criticism, eds. Lyn Diloria Sandín and Richard Pérez (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
"America," entry in Keywords for American Cultural Studies, eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler (NYU Press, 2007).
"The Gulf of Mexico System and the 'Latinness' of New Orleans," American Literary History 18:4 (Fall 2006).
"Hacia un mundo nuevo latino: los periódicos hispanos en los Estados Unidos a fines del siglo XIX," Revista Iberoamericana LXXII (enero-marzo 2006), no. 214. pp. 185-198.
“Translation: A Key(word) into the Language of America(nists),” American Literary History 16:1 (Spring 2004).
“Other Languages, Other Americas,” in The Blackwell Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865, ed. Shirley Samuels, Blackwell Press 2004.
“Worlding American Studies” (co-authored with Rob Wilson and Susan Gillman), Comparative American Studies 2:3 (2004), 259-270.
“Utopía Latina: The Ordinary Seaman in Extraordinary Times.” Modern Fiction Studies 49:1 (Spring 2003), 54-83.
Book: Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing (Princeton University Press, 2002).
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