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María Mercedes Andrade

María Mercedes Andrade is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Black and Hispanic Studies and the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Baruch College. She grew up in Bogotá, Colombia, and has a Bachelors degree in Philosophy from the Universidad de los Andes. She holds an M.A. in Philosophy from the New School, as well as an M.A. in Hispanic Languages and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook.

Professor Andrade's research interests include the literature and culture of Latinos in the United States, Latin American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, women's writing, and literary theory. Her book, La ciudad fragmentada (The Fragmented City), which addresses the representation of the urban riots that took place in Colombia in 1948, was published by Ediciones Inti, Rhode Island, in 2002 (see www.revista-inti.com). She is working on a second book about the process of modernization in Colombia during the first half of the twentieth century.

Her recent articles include "Achy Obejas" (Forthcoming, Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, Oxford University Press), "El poder y la colección: reinterpretaciones latinoamericanas de un tema europeo" (Forthcoming, Encuentros, Universidad Católica de Perú), "Deferring Judgment: Reading Derrida's Reading Against the Grain" (Forthcoming, Studies in the Humanities, Indiana University of Pennsylvania), "Crossing Identities in Sarduy's From Cuba with a Song" (Atenea, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2003), "La crisis de la comunidad nacional en Los elegidos" (Hispamérica, University of Maryland, 2002). She is the Spanish editor of the interdisciplinary journal of Latin American studies, Latin American Essays (www.maclas.vcu.edu/journal/index.html).

Professor Andrade teaches courses on Latin American and Latino culture and history, women's studies, and world literature. Some of her recent courses include "Latinos in the U.S.: Culture and Society," "Latinas: A Social and Cultural Survey," "Latin America and the Caribbean," and "Great Works of Literature."

Phone: (646) 312-4236
Fax: (646) 312-4441
E-mail:Maria_Andrade@baruch.cuny.edu