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Jacqueline Loss
Associate Professor of Spanish
 Education
PhD University of Texas, in Comparative Literature
Areas of Expertise
Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies, Cuba, Comparative approaches
Contact Information
Office/Hours: Arjona 114 W 10-12; F 11-12
Phone: 860-486-3314
E-mail: jacqueline.loss@uconn.edu
Website
Bio:
Jacqueline Loss (PhD, 2000, Comparative Literature, University of Texas-Austin) teaches Latin American and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. Her book “Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place” was published by Palgrave in 2005. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming anthology of Cuban short stories to be published by Northwestern University Press and currently she is collaborating on a collection of literature from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Libya, and Cuba. Among the writers she has translated into English are Cubans Víctor Fowler Calzada. Ernesto René Rodríguez, and Jorge Miralles. Her critical essays have appeared in Nepantla:Views from South, Miradas (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños), Chasqui, Latino and Latina Writers, Mandorla, and New Centennial Review, among other publications. She is currently preparing a manuscript whose working title is “Cultural Memory: Cuba and the Soviet Bloc.”
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