Lucille Kerr, Ph.D. Yale University, Professor
Lucille Kerr's area of research is modern Latin American literature, with emphasis on narrative fiction, the Boom and post-Boom eras, literary history, and literary theory. She is the author of Suspended Fictions: Reading Novels by Manuel Puig (U of Illinois P) and Reclaiming the Author: Figures and Fictions from Spanish America (Duke UP). Her scholarly articles have appeared in journals such as Criticism, Diacritics, MLN, PMLA, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Symposium, and World Literature Today and she is among the contributors to the Latin American Literatures: A Comparative History of Cultural Formations (Oxford UP/Fondo de Cultura Económica/ UFRJ). Her current research deals with literary and cultural history during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on archival and literary materials, she is studying Latin American literary culture from the 1960s onward, looking at writers whose careers were shaped as much by the marketing of Latin American literature as by their own literary interests, international travels and residences. She is also engaged in a group project to document linkages between Latin American literature and film. Her research has been supported by grants from the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has served on the Editorial Boards of Hispania, Latin American Literary Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Siglo XX/20th Century, and as Review Editor for Latin American Literary Review. She has directed doctoral research on colonial and nineteenth-century Latin American literature as well as on twentieth-century topics, including studies of Cuban anti-slavery narratives, the "grotesco criollo" in Argentina, the "new" historical novel, the journal Mundo Nuevo, testimonial narrative and film, Eva Perón, and mestizaje and multiculturalism in the Americas, among others.
