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• Sandra María Benedet is an Assistant Professor of Spanish. She holds a Masters Degree and a Ph.D. from Stanford University and has taught at Roosevelt University, Northwestern University, The University of Iowa, and Stanford University. Professor B...More

  Sandra María Benedet is an Assistant Professor of Spanish. She holds a Masters Degree and a Ph.D. from Stanford University and has taught at Roosevelt University, Northwestern University, The University of Iowa, and Stanford University. Professor Benedet teaches a wide range of courses, including language, composition, and literature and culture courses on such subjects as women and the Mexican Revolution, Mexican national identity, urban imaginaries, and literary utopias and dystopias. Her principal area of interest is Mexico and she has worked extensively on the Estridentistas, a Mexican avant-garde movement of the 1920s. Benedet has published in La palabra y el hombre, Contratiempo, Estos Tiempos, and in a special edition of Revista Iberoamericana that is devoted to the avant-garde. Her latest work, soon to be published, is an interview with her uncle, a Trotskyist who participated in the Spanish Civil War. In her free time, Professor Benedet practices yoga. Less

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