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
Phone: 860-486-2529
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
New Short Fiction from Cuba (Northwestern University Press, 2007) and an advisor to
Literature from the Axis of Evil: Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations (New Press, 2006). Among the writers she has translated into English are Cubans VÃctor Fowler Calzada. Ernesto René RodrÃguez, Jorge Miralles, and Armando Suárez Cobián. 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. Her manuscript,
Dreaming in Russian, and her co-edited volume
Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the post-Soviet Experience are forthcoming.
