Luz Kirschner

Title

Associate Professor

Office Building

Lincoln Hall

Office

315

Mailing Address

Lincoln Hall 315
School of American & Global Studies-Box 2212
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Education

• Ph.D. in department of comparative literature; minor in criticism, theory and aesthetics | Pennsylvania State University
• M.A. in comparative literature | University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.A. in american and literary studies | Bielefeld University, Germany
• B.A. in modern languages | Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Academic Interests

• Latin American literatures and cultures
• Latina/o literatures and cultures
• Inter-American Studies
• Diaspora
• U.S. ethnic literatures
• Globalization
• Human rights
• Transatlantic studies
• Transnationalism
• Minority writing
• Cultures in Germany

Work Experience

• 2022 to present - associate professor, South Dakota State University
• 2016- 2022 - assistant professor, South Dakota State University
• 2008-2016 - permanent full-time tenured lecturer, Bielefeld University, Germany
• Summer 2010-2016 - visiting professor, University of Guadalajara, Mexico
• Summer 2012 and 2013 - short-term visiting research scholar at Penn State University