Professor of Spanish and Latin American Culture and Literature; PhD, UCLA
Professor Castro-Klaren earned her Ph.D. at the University of California (UCLA) in 1968. Before coming to JHU as Professor of Latin American Culture and Literature she taught at Dartmouth College and Georgetown University. She has been a pioneer in cultural studies, the interdisciplinary study of Latin America’s rich intellectual and literary culture and feminist studies. Her work includes books on major writers such as Jose Maria Arguedas and Mario Vargas Llosa. She has published essays on Diamela Eltit, Julio Cortazar, Guaman Poma and the Inca Garcilaso with an emphasis on the question of the inversion of epistemologies and the trenchant search for different ways of knowing. Her research has been published in major journals and presses in both English and Spanish. She has also opened up fields of research such as the poetics of archeology, subaltern knowledges and the epistemological-affective search for the sensory web that ties humans to animals and plants in her work of Arguedas, Hudson and Cortazar. At the moment she continues work on the relation of the poetics of archeology and the rise of the nation.
Current Interests: Publishing and Research.