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Dr. Susana Cavallo
Title/s: Professor
Professor
Specialty Area: Peninsular, Latin American and Latino/a Literature & Culture, and Gender Studies
Office #: CC217C
Phone: 773.508.2870
Email: scavall@luc.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D. The University of Chicago (Romance Languages and Literatures)
- M.A. Middlebury College (Spanish)
- B.A. Brown University (History and Music)
Research Interests
- 20th Century Peninsular Poetry
- 20th Century Hispanic Prose
- Latin American Poetry
- Latina Writers
- Hispanic Women's Writing
- Feminist Theory and Criticism
- Translation
Professional & Community Affiliations
- Board of Trustees (Patronato), Universidad Loyola Andalucia
- Steering Committee, Women's Studies Program
- Steering Committee, Italian American Studies Committee
- Dean of Faculty, John Felice Rome Center, 2007 - 2015
Courses Taught
- Contemporary Spanish Poetry
- Modern Spanish Narrative
- 20th Century Latin American Poetry
- 19th Century Poetry
- Hispanic Women Writers
- Latina Writers
- Critical Analysis
- Honors: Encountering Latin America and the Caribbean
Selected Publications
Books
- La Poetica de Jose Hierro (Madrid: Taurus, 1987).
- Estudios en Honor de Janet Pérez: el Sujeto Femenino en Escritoras Hispánicas, eds. Susana Cavallo, Luis Jiménez and Oralia Preble-Niemi. Potomac, Washington: Scripta Humanistica, 1998.
- Dreams on Fire. Sueño en el fuego. A Bilingual Edition of the Poetry of Alejandro Duque Amusco. Ed., Susana Cavallo and Trans. Susan Kimmelman. Chicago: Clouds Hands Press, 2022.
Articles
- "European Feminisms: Theories and Practices of Sexual Differences." Duoda. Revista d’EstudisFeministes 14 (1998): 181-7.
- "Francisco Brines. La última costa y Escritos sobre poesía española." Alaluz 28.1&2 (primavera- otoño 1996): 110-114.
- "Autobiografía, testimonio, y ficción en la literatura carcelaria femenina: Lidia Falcón, Tomasa Cuevas, y Eva Forest." Duoda. Revista d'Estudis Feministes 10 (1996): 87-100.
- "President's Column: Diversity, Relevance, and Creativity," M/MLA Newsletter 21 (December 1999): 3 (8).
- “Preface: Witness: The Real, the Unspeakable, and the Construction of Narrative,” M/MLA 33-3 & 34-1 (Fall 2000/Winter 2001): 1-3.
- “Emotions Recollected Through Antiquity: Francisco Brines’s Poemas a D.K.,” Hispania. Vol. 84.2 (May 2001): 205-212.
- “Las sombras de su pasado: El tema de la muerte en tres relatos de Francisco Ayala,” Hispania. December 2006. Homenaje a Francisco Ayala. Hispania 89-4: December 2006, 718-728.
- "Polvo en la tierra: la poesía temprana de Susana March", en Escritoras españolas del siglo XX, Vol. 2, Arbor (CLXXXII, 2006): 447-53. From a three-volume journal on 20th century Spanish women writers entitled “Vidas abreviadas.”
- “Dos odiseas españolas: Juan Goytisolo y Montserrat Roig en la URSS.” Memoria Histórica, Género e Interdisciplinariedad. Los estudios culturales hispánicos en el siglo XXI. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2008, 45-54.
- “The Gift of Tongues: Re-visiting Molly Bloom’s Monologue in Joyce’s Ulysses,” in Variantes de la modernidad. Estudios en honor de Ricardo Gullón, Newark & Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2010, pp. 65-79.
- Poemas a D.K.: Emociones convocadas desde la Antigüedad. Sevilla: Renascente, 2011.
- “Francisco Ayala: A Man for All Seasons.” Epilogue to Francisco Ayala en Chicago. Acercamiento oral y escrito. Gemma Delicado Puerto, Tànit Fernández de la Reguera Tayà, eds. Cáceres: Universidad de Extremadura, 2017.
- “Emily Dickinson and Flannery O’Connor: Lives Beyond Convention,” Special Edition of English Studies on Flannery O’Connor and the Arts: Walking Hand in Hand: Flannery O'Connor's Artistic and Spiritual Companions. Ed., Mark Bosco, S.J.. English Studies, Vol. 100, N. 5, 2019. London: Routledge. https://doc.org/10.108010013838X_2019.1610238.
Video
- “Rumba para Ayala,” commissioned by the Ministerio de Cultura of Spain & the Fundación Francisco Ayala