Faculty & Staff
Claudia Cabello-Hutt
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Ph.D., Spanish and Latin American Literature, Rutgers University, 2010. (Graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University.) M.A., Spanish and Latin American Literature, Rutgers University, 2004. Licenciatura en Letras con mención en Lingüística y Literaturas Hispánicas, Catholic University of Chile, 2000. Phone: (336) 334-3853 Fax: (336) 334-5358 Email: c_cabell@uncg.edu |
Research/ Teaching Interests
- 19th and 20th century Latin American literature and culture
- Intellectual history
- Women writers
- Visual culture
- Gender studies
- The intersections of media, markets and culture
Personal Statement
My research and teaching interests include the literary and intellectual culture of Latin America during the 19th and 20th century, with particular attention to: the essay genre since the era of independence and its relationship with cultural and national identity; the creation of transnational/ transatlantic networks of writers and intellectuals; the circulation of images, texts and bodies in the context of Latin American modernity (modernidad).
I am currently completing a book manuscript on Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral as a modern transnational intellectual. The project revises the dominant image of Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) as a primarily literary figure and challenges both an academic and a broader readership to think about Mistral as a major public intellectual who played an active role in key national and transnational debates throughout the first half of the twentieth century.
Selected Professional Achievements
Recent Publications
- “La letra y el cuerpo: la imagen visual de Gabriela Mistral de 1905 a 1922.” Revista Iberoamericana (forthcoming).
- "Another 'Waste Land': Gabriela Mistral in 1922". Article co-authored with Osvaldo de la Torre. Modernist Cultures7.1 (2012): 1-14.
- "Gabriela Mistral artesana de sí misma: multifuncionalidad de la prosa mistraliana en su construcción como sujeto intelectual" Taller de Letras 41 (2007): 53-67.
Recent conference papers and invited lectures:
- “Desencuentros y alianzas: una mirada al campo literario latinoamericano de 1910-1940 a partir de los epistolarios de Gabriela Mistral”. IILI (Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana), Cádiz, July 3-6, 2012.
- “Cartas y retratos: Mistral y el arte de creación de redes transnacionales”. LASA (Latin American Studies Association) 2012, San Francisco, CA, May 23-26, 2012.
- “Gabriela Mistral, tránsito hemisférico y redes transatlánticas”. Hispanic Transatlantic Studies: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, April 19-21, 2012.
- "Mucho más que cartas: el poder de las redes transnacionales de Gabriela Mistral". Simposio "Redes, alianzas y afinidades: escritura de mujeres en América Latina, siglos XIX y XX. Homenaje a Montserrat Ordóñez", Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, November 2-4, 2011.
- "Gabriela Mistral y la intelectualidad norteamericana: sus orígenes y su trascendencia". NeMLA Conference, New Brunswick. April 7-10, 2011.
- "Latin American Women Intellectuals' Redefinition of the 'Man of Letters': 1900-1950." Women's History Month, University of Mary Washington, March 10, 2011.
