Francine Masiello/biography
Francine Masiello is Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and a member of the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature. She works on topics related to Spanish American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, gender theory, and comparative North/South cultures, but has principally been identified with work on Southern Cone literature and culture.
Her books include Lenguaje e ideologia: las escuelas argentinas de vanguardia (1986); Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina (1992), winner of the Modern Language Association award for best book on a Latin American topic and subsequently revised and translated into Spanish (1997); La mujer y el espacio público (1994). Her most recent books are The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001; Spanish translation, Buenos Aires: Editorial Norma, 2001), again winner of the Kovacs prize of the Modern Language Association and also recipient of Honorable Mention in the Bryce Wood competition of LASA. Her Dreams and Realities, The writings of Juana Manuela Gorriti a critical edition published by Oxford University Press, appeared in 2003. She has also participated (with pleasure) in several collaborative endeavors: Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America (UC Press, 1990) was the fruit of a decade-long seminar in which several faculty members of the northern California campuses devoted themselves to the study of feminism in Latin America. With Tulio Halperin Donghi and Gwen Kirkpatrick, she edited Sarmiento, Author of a Nation (1994), a volume that enjoyed the participation of distinguished Argentinists from the United States and abroad. A forthcoming edited volume on Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman, prepared in collaboration with Dan Balderston, will be in print later this year.
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