Speakers' Details

Professor Nara Araújo (La Habana) gave a paper ' La patria en la lejanía. Género, política y nación en el discurso de José María Heredia, María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, y Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda', in University of Nottingham, 8th September 2006.

Professor Mary Berg

Professor Berg grew up in Colombia and Peru, and studied archaeology in University of San Marcos, Lima. She obtained a BA at Cornell, and PhD from Harvard. She has published extensively on Colombian, Peruvian, and Argentine literature; especially 19th and 20th century Latin American women writers. She has translated many novels and short stories including a collection of Cuban short stories by women, and novels by contemporary Peruvian, Argentine, and Dominican women novelists; and the poetry of Carlota Caulfield and Antonio Machado.
Among her collections of edited books are

• Woman as Witness (2004)
• Narrativa colombiana del siglo XX (2000)
• Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay (1995)
• Women Novelists of the World (1994)

Her current project includes a biography of Peruvian Clorinda Matto de Turner, essays on Argentine women’s writing from colonial times to the present-day, and an edition of the 1603 text Miscelanea austral printed in Lima that describes women’s lives in the 1590s.

Professor Peggy Sharpe

Professor Sharpe is Full Professor of Portuguese and Spanish in the Spanish and Portuguese Division of Florida State University, Tallahassee. She has worked extensively on Brazilian women writers of the 19th century, and has published an important annotated edition with introduction of Opúsculo Humanitário, by Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta.

She is currently working on the foundational republican feminist writer, Julia Lopes de Almeida.