Madeline Camara
Madeline Camara
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Office: CPR 401
Phone: 813/974-2924
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Bio
Madeline Cámara Betancourt, Ph.d in Hispanic Languages and
Literature in SUNY at Stony Brook, is Professor of Latin American
Literature in World Language at the University of South Florida. She
has taught at the University of Havana, UNAM in Mexico City, and San
Diego State University, California. She has received, among other
awards, a Rockefeller Resident Fellowship in the Humanities at Florida
International University, as well as a Fulbright Border Program Award.
She has just has published the co-edited anthology María Zambrano: Palabras para el
mundo (Juan de la Cuesta, 2011) in her new area of research,
Transtlantic Studies. Before, she was focused on Cuban literature and
in this domain has published, edited and contributed to several books,
among others: Cuban Women Writers:
Imagining a Matria (NY: Palgrave, 2008), La memoria hechizada (Barcelona:
Icaria, 2002) La letra rebelde:
estudios de escritoras cubanas (Miami:Universal, 2002), Cuba: the Elusive Nation
(Gainsville, Florida UP, 2000) Vocación
de Casandra (NY: Peter Lang: 2000) and Cuentos Cubanos Contemporáneos (Xalapa:
Editorial Veracruzana, 1997).
She has authored numerous articles that have been published in national
and international academic journals and literary publications. Founder
and editor of the literary journal Letras Cubanas, in La Habana
(1986-1992), she still has a passion for literary criticism and she
writes a column for El
Nuevo Herald, the most important Hispanic news paper in the
U.S. She is considered a leading scholar in the field of Cuban
Studies.
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