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Vicky Unruh

Vicky Unruh, Professor, received her B.A. and M.A.T. from Antioch College and her Ph.D. in Spanish American Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching fields include modern Spanish American narrative and theatre, the literary vanguards in Latin America, and Hispanic Caribbean literature, particularly Cuban. She is the author of Latin American Vanguards: The Art of Contentious Encounters (U of California Press, 1994) and Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America (U of Texas Press, 2006). Her articles have appeared in critical collections in the U.S. and abroad and in Cuadernos Americanos, Discurso Literario, Hispania, Hispanic Review, Latin American Literary Review, Latin American Research Review, Latin American Theatre Review, Modern Drama, PMLA, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Revista Iberoamericana, Romance Quarterly, and Siglo XX/Twentieth Century. She has received research support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas, the Center for Twentieth-Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Tinker Foundation, and the Danforth Foundation. She has served on the editorial board of Latin American Research Review, and she currently serves on the editorial boards of PMLA and Revista Iberoamericana. Her current projects include the co-edited volume (wth Michael J. Lazzara), Telling Ruins in Latin America (forthcoming with Palgrave/MacMillan) and a book-length study of post-Soviet Cuban cultural activity.