Indication: Professor Sara Del Rojo – Faculty of Letters/UFMG
Period: September 9 to 20, 2009
Doctor in Letters from the University of Paris, professor and researcher at the University of Santiago de Chile. Specialist in literature and culture in Latin America. During her career, she has taught courses at several universities in Latin America, the United States, Canada and Europe. She coordinated, among others, the volumes: Latin America: word, literature and culture (Three volumes. São Paulo: Memorial da América Latina / UNICAMP: 1993-95), The archipelago of external borders. Caribbean Cultures Today (Santiago: USACH, 2002), The Rifts in the Process of Civilizing. Marta Traba in the sixties (Santiago: LOM / USACH, 2002) and Silence, hum, lightning: the poetry of Gonzalo Rojas (Santiago: USACH, 2006). Among his individual works are On oysters and cannibals (Santiago: USACH, 1994. Municipal Prize for Literature in Santiago in the essay category), The south and the tropics. Latin American Culture Essays (Alicante: Universidad de Alicante, 2004) and Gabriela Mistral: The Lucila Project (Santiago: LOM, 2005). The results of her latest study, carried out with support from the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and Fondecyt-Chile, will be published under the title Amazonia: the river has voices (imaginary and modernization). Currently, with the sponsorship of the Fondecyt-Chile Program, she is developing a research entitled “Fables of identity: the autobiographical discourse in Maria Félix, Libertad Lamarque and Carmen Miranda”.