Ctr. of Latin American Studies
1440 Jayhawk Blvd. Suite 320
Lawrence, KS 66045-7574
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Phone: (785) 864-4213


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Lee Skinner
Associate Professor
3073 Wescoe Hall
 
 
   
Current Research
19 th century Spanish American narrative and essay with an emphasis on gender and nation-building
 
Current Projects

Book project: “Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America , 1850-1920”

 
Research Interests
19 th century Spanish American narrative, essay, and intellectual history; representations of gender, race and nation
 
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Courses Taught

Graduate courses and seminars:
Seminar on Spanish American Narrative: History, Memory, Nostalgia

Seminar on Spanish American Narrative: Consuming Modernity

Seminar on Spanish American Essay

Discourses of Colonial Spanish America

Nineteenth-Century Spanish American Texts

Colonial Encounters

Undergraduate courses (major):

Revolutions and Revolutionary Thought in Spanish America

Race and Romance in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America

Nineteenth-Century Spanish-American Studies: Nation and Nation-Building

Spanish-American Women Writers

Comparative Cultures of Mexico and Peru

Mexican Culture

National Traditions in Spanish American Literature: Mexico

Colonial Spanish American Studies: The Colonial Encounter

Spanish American Literature I

Advanced Composition

Introduction to Textual Analysis and Critical Reading

 
Education

Ph.D. in Spanish, Emory University ; B.A. in Comparative Literature, Brown University