Widening the Spectrum of Desire and Nation: Anacristina Rossi’s Fiction

Sofía Kearns, Ph.D., is professor of Spanish and of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality minor at Furman University. Her research focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality and the representations of nation and the natural environment in literary texts by contemporary Latin American women writers. She has published on the works of Gioconda Belli, Maria Mercedes Carranza, Anacristina Rossi, Mayra Montero, and others, applying postcolonial, feminist, and intersectional theories.