Jacqueline Nanfito

Jacqueline Nanfito, Associate Professor of Spanish (Latin American Literature and Culture) is also a faculty member of the interdisciplinary programs of Women's and Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies.  She is the author of several articles in Latin American literary journals, and has published several books on Latin American women writers: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, El sueño: Cartographies of Knowledge and the Self; Gabriela Mistral: On Women, a compilation and translation of selected prose writings about women by the Chilean Nobel Prize Poet, Gabriela Mistral; the translation of the short short stories (microcuentos) by award winning Chilean female author, Pía Barros, Marks Beneath the Skin/Signos bajo la piel; the translation of an anthology of short short fiction (microcuentos) by Chilean female authors denouncing violence towards women, edited by Pía Barros, ¡BASTA! + de 100 mujeres contra la violencia de genero/ENOUGH!  100+ Women Against Gender Violence; the translation of 70 poems by the Chilean Jewish author and human rights activist, Marjorie Agosín, The White Islands / Las Islas Blancas the translation of Agosin's prose poems about Anne Frank, Anne: An Imagining of the Life of Anne Frank; and the novel, Fish Hair Woman, from English into Spanish, Mujer Pelo Pez, by the award winning Filipina female author, Merlinda Bobis.