Latin America

Ashley Brock

Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Spanish ashbrock@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Film, Novel, Short Story, Latin America, US, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Ecocriticism/ Ecology, Post-colonial, Spatial Theory

David Kazanjian

Professor of English and Comparative Literature kazanjia@english.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Historiography and Historical Writing, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Africa & the Caribbean, Diaspora, Latin America, Middle East/North Africa, US, C19, Long Eighteenth Century, Deconstruction, Formalism/ Structuralism, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Marxism, Post-colonial, Psychoanalysis, Race and Empire, Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, Trauma

Rose Poku

Ph.D. Candidate rosepoku@sas.upenn.edu

Fields of Study: Novel, Poetry/ Poetics, Africa & the Caribbean, Diaspora, Latin America, US, Deconstruction, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Linguistic Theories and Culture, Post-colonial, Race and Empire, Translation

Jennifer Ponce de León

Associate Professor of English poncej@english.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Drama, Film, Novel, Poetry/ Poetics, Short Story, Latin America, US, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Marxism, Post-colonial, Race and Empire, Spatial Theory

Liz Rose

Ph.D. Candidate lizrose@sas.upenn.edu

Fields of Study: Africa & the Caribbean, Diaspora, Latin America, US, C21/ Contemporary, Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Race and Empire, Translation

Jorge Tellez

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese jtellez@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Novel, Poetry/ Poetics, Latin America, C21/ Contemporary, Early Modern (C14-C17), Museum/Object Studies, Sociology of Literature