Debra Castillo is Emerson Hinchliff Chair of Hispanic Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature, former director of the Latin American Studies Program (two separate terms) and incoming director of the Latino/a Studies Program (beginning in Ja
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Debra Castillo is Emerson Hinchliff Chair of Hispanic Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature, former director of the Latin American Studies Program (two separate terms) and incoming director of the Latino/a Studies Program (beginning in January 2016). She is past president of the international, interdisciplinary Latin American Studies Association.
In her research, she specializes in contemporary narrative from the Spanish-speaking world (including the United States), gender studies, cultural theory, and theater. She is the author, co-author, translator, or editor of a dozen books and around a hundred scholarly articles, most recently Mexican Public Intellectuals (with Stuart Day) and a book on Spanish American queer cinema (with Andrés Lema Hincapié). She is frequently called on nationally and internationally for conference keynote addresses, invited lectures, and distinguished lecturer appointments in the US, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America (Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Puerto Rico, Perú, Costa Rica), India, and Taiwan. She advises the Cornell Hispanic Theater group, Teatrotaller, which was founded in 1993 with the idea of promoting Spanish, Latin American and Latino cultures through theater.
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