Blanca M. Rivera
Associate Professor of Spanish
Chair
Hagg-Sauer Hall 311
1500 Birchmont Drive NE
Bemidji, MN 56601-2699

Office Hours
MWF 9:00 – 9:50 a.m.;
MW 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.;
T 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 1:15 – 3:00 p.m;

Ph.D    Cornell University, Ithaca NY (Department of Romance Studies, Latin American Literature; Minor Fields: English and Comparative Literature)

Dissertation: A critical study of modern poetics through the work of the 19th Cuban poet, journalist, and revolutionary leader José Martí (“Poetry and Machinery of Illusion: José Martí and the Poetics of Modernity”)

M.A. Cornell University, Ithaca NY (Department of Romance Studies, Latin American Literature; Minor Fields: English and Comparative Literature)

B.A. Princeton University, Princeton NJ (Comparative Literature, Certificate in Latin American Studies)

Research Interests

• Latin American 19th & 20th Century literature
• Caribbean Literature and Culture
• Argentine Literature & Culture
• Comparative poetics
• Film
• Comparative Studies on Romanticism
• Latin American Cultural Studies
• Material and Popular Culture

Courses for Fall Semester, 2006

• Spanish 2211: Intermediate Spanish I
• Spanish 3311: Composition & Conversation
• Spanish 4930: Caribbean Literature & Culture