Rebecca Elizabeth Biron
Professor
Appointments
Director of Leslie Center for the Humanities
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese. Joint Title in Comparative Literature
Area of Expertise
20th-21st Century Latin American Prose and Film,
Literary/Critical Theory,
Mexican Cultural Criticism,
Gender Studies
Biography
Rebecca E. Biron joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Comparative Literature at Dartmouth in 2006, after having taught at the University of Miami, Emory University, and the University of Iowa. Her research and teaching interests focus on Latin American literary and cultural studies, literary theory, gender studies, and Mexican cultural criticism. She has published widely on the relationship between narrative and violence as it pertains to masculinity, Latin American urban history, and Mexican literature and film. Professor Biron served as Dartmouth's Dean of the College from 2015-2018. She has chaired the Dartmouth program in Latin American/Latino/Caribbean Studies. She directed the degree programs in Latin American Studies and was Faculty Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies.
Education
B.A. University of Georgia
Ph.D. University of Iowa
Taught Courses
Publications
Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams. Bucknell University Press, 2013
City/Art: The Urban Scene in Latin America, editor. Duke University Press, 2009.
Murder and Masculinity: Violent Fictions of 20th Century Latin America. Vanderbilt University Press, 2000
2015 "Holographic Buenos Aires: Urban Memory and New Technologies of Envisioning" Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America: Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era. Eds. Matthew Bush and Tania Gentic. Forthcoming, Routledge
2013 "Writing Cities." Revista hispánica moderna 66.1 (June): 89-97.
2013 "Pasajes de la (in)seguridad: circuitos del miedo en la Ciudad de México." Utopías urbanas: Geopolíticas del deseo en América Latina. Ed.Gisela Heffes. Frankfurt/Madrid: Editorial Iberoamericana, Vervuert Verlag: 87-111.
2012 "It's a Living: Hit Men in the Mexican Narco War." PMLA 127.4 (October): 820-834.
2012 "El abecedario urbano: entre la semiótica y la filología en la Ciudad de México." Revista hispánica moderna 65.2 (December): 153-164.
Works in Progress
The Geopolitics of Form: 21st Century film trilogies in the Americas (Book manuscript)
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