Diana Alvarez-Amell
Modern Languages
Spanish
  

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You can find some biographical information about myself here, as well as information about the classes I am teaching. Also, you can follow some of my favorite links to other web sites. 

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Contact Information

  • I can be reached via email at alvaredi@shu.edu
  • I can be reached in my office in Fahy Hall, Room 227
  • I can be reached via phone at x5849
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Teaching

  • Span 1001: Elementary Spanish
  • Span 1002: Elementary Spanish II
  • Span 1202: Advanced Spanish II
  • Honors 3197: Literature and History 
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Biographical Information

I am originally from Havana,Cuba. I have lived and studied in the Caribbean, Europe and the United States. I obtained my doctorate from Cornell University and taught at the University of Kansas before coming to Seton Hall University. I am currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages, where I teach courses in Spanish language and literature. I have specialized in Golden Age Spanish Prose, but my present interest is in contemporary Cuban cultural studies.  My current research project is on the configuration of a national identity in Cuban literature in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. 

 (Soy de la Habana, Cuba. He vivido y estudiado tanto en el Caribe y Europa como en los Estados Unidos. Obtuve el doctorado en la Universidad de Cornell. Luego de trabajar en la Universidad de Kansas, vine a la Universidad de Seton Hall en donde soy profesora asociada de lengua y literatura. Me he especializado en la prosa del Siglo de Oro; me intereso en la actualidad en estudios culturales cubanos.  Trabajo ahora en un libro sobre el concepto literario de nacionalidad en los textos cubanos de los siglos XIX y XX.)To Top

Research Information

Some of my most recent publications:

El discurso de los prologos del Siglo de Oro
(book in press in Scripta Humanistica.) 

" La carne": politica de la destruccion del cuerpo en la narrativa de Virgilio Pinera. (forthcoming article in La Habana Elegante (electronic journal: Http:\\habanaelegante.home.pileline.com/home)

"La creacion y la recreacion: el dilema de la representacion de lo femenino en la poesia de Belkis Cuza Male"  Explicacion de Textos Literarios, Spring, 1996.

"El arte y la naturaleza: el espacio de la creacion en el prologo de Don Quijote." Actas del Segundo Congreso Internacional de la Asociacion de Cervantistas, Naples, 1995.

"Cambio y Permanencia en Una fuente, una casa de piedra de Heberto Padilla." Puente Libre, Mexico, 1995.

"Del exilio y otras minorias.  Entrevista a Jesus J. Barquet." Puente Libre, Mexico, 1995.
 

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