Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture; Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Estelle Tarica is Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University (2000). In her research and teaching she examines colonial legacies of race in modern Latin America, Indigenous and Jewish memory cultures, and the transformative power of testimony, fiction and poetry. Her first book, The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), explores the subjective effects of racialized national...
