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School of American and Global Studies

Luz Kirschner

Luz A 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

Areas of Research

Publications

Single-Authored Book

  1. The Persistence of Racialization: Literature, Gender and Ethnicity. Routledge, Oct. 18, 2024. 254 pp. 


Collections (Edited and Co-Edited Books)

  1. Human Rights in the Americas. Co-editors María Herrera-Sobek and Francisco A. Lomelí. Routledge, 2021. 334 pp.
  2. Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective. Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe (Arizona State University), 2012. 282 pp.

Reviewed by Stephanie Siewert in “’America at large?’ Inter-American Studies, Transnationalism and the Hemispheric Turn: Research Survey and Review of the Book Series Inter-American Studies/Estudios Interamericanos (vol. I-V).” Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly 60. 4. (2015): 533-47. 


Articles Published in Refereed Journals

  1. “His/tory and Its Vicissitudes in The Handmaid’s Tale and In the Time of the Butterflies.”CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 8.4 (2006)


Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

  • “Introduction to Human Rights in the Americas.” Human Rights in the Americas. Co-authors María Herrera-Sobek and Francisco A. Lomelí. Routledge, 2021. 1-28.
  • “Capá Prieto and the Decolonial Afro-Latin(o/a) American Imagination.” Human Rights in the Americas. Routledge, 2021. 223-242.
  • “Migrant Literature.”The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas. Eds. Wilfried Raussert, Giselle Liza Anatol, Sebastian Thies, Sarah Corona Berkin and José Carlos Lozano. Co-author Miriam Brandel. Routledge, 2020. 147-155.
  • “Latinidad.” The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas. Eds. Olaf Kaltmeyer, Josef Raab, Mike Foley, Alice Nash, Mario Rufer. Routledge, 2019. 339-346.
  • “Brazuca Literature: Old and New Currents, Countercurrents and Undercurrents.” The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature. Eds. Laura Lomas and John Morán González. Cambridge UP, 2018. 602-20. (The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature is 2018 Choice “Outstanding Academic Title”)                 
  • “Expanding Latinidad: A Hemispheric Perspective.” The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies. Ed. Wilfried Raussert. Routledge, 2017. 77-91.
  • “Human Rights and Minority Rights: Argentine and German Perspectives.” The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights. Eds. Sophia McClennen and Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Routledge, 2015. 361-372.
  •  “Expanding Latinidad: An Introduction.” Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective. Ed. Luz Angélica Kirschner. Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe (Arizona State University), 2012. 1-56. 
  •  “Samba Dreamers; or, the Tenuousness of a ‘Perfect Ending’.” Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective. Ed. Luz Angélica Kirschner. Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe (Arizona State University), 2012. 133-52.
  • “Cecilia Absatz’s Los años pares or the Challenges of Reevaluating Autochthonous Latinamericanism.” “Nach Amerika nämlich! - Jüdische Migrationen in die Amerikas im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. (“To America!” Jewish Migrations to the Americas in the 19th and 20th Centuries) Ed. Ulla Kriebernegg, Gerald Lamprecht, Roberta Maierhofer and Andrea Strutz. Wallstein Verlag, 2012. 335-53.
  • [Reprinted in InterAmerican Perspectives in the 21st Century: Festschrift in Honor of Josef Raab. Edited by Wilfried Raussert and Olaf Kaltmeier. Wissenschafticher Verlag Trier/University of New Orleans Press, 2021. 91-106]. 


Refereed Contributions to Reference Works

  • “Latinos and Latinas in the United States: History, Culture and Literature,” 2: 551-54. “Puerto Rico: History, Culture and Literature,” 2: 811-14. “Puerto Rico: Generación del treinta (1930s Generation)," 2: 809-11. “Ilan Stavans,” 3: 936-37. “Tato Laviera,” 2: 557-58.  World Literature in Spanish:  An Encyclopedia. Ed. Maureen Ihrie and Salvador Oropesa. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2011.
  • “Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.” The Literary Encyclopedia: Exploring Literature, History and Culture. Vol.3.2.7.: Chicano/Latino/Writing and Culture of the United States. Eds. Emory Elliot, Nuala Finnegan and Stephen E. Meats. First published 24 Oct. 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com, accessed February 7, 2019.]
  • “Elisa Lerner,” 273-75. “Angelina Muñiz-Huberman,” 355-57. “Reina Roffé,” 452-54. Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia. Ed. María Claudia André and Eva Bueno. Routledge, 2008.
  • “Machismo,” 3: 54-59. “Navidad,” 3: 229-32. “Quinceañera,” 3: 440-42.  Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, Society. Ed. Ilan Stavans. 3 vols. Grolier, 2005.


Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

  1. “Welcoming New Americans: A View from South Dakota.” Proceedings from the Eighteenth Annual Cambio de Colores/Change of Colors Meeting of the Cambio Center, June 5-7 2019: Welcoming Immigrants and Newcomers in Turbulent Times: Knowledge, Connections and Actions, edited by Stephen Jeanetta and Corinne Valdivia. Co-author Christine Garst-Santos. Cambio Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2020, pp. 47-52.


Book Reviews 

  • Beushausen, Wiebke, et al., eds. Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean: Narratives, Aesthetics and Politics, in Critical Reviews on Latin American Research – CROLAR. 8. 1 (2019): 66-68. La Región Andina: ¿desarrollo sostenible con desigualdad?
  • Raanan Rein coord.; María José Cano Pérez and Beatriz Molina Rueda, eds. Más allá del Medio Oriente. Las diasporas judía y árabe en América Latina, in E.I.A.L. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe. 23. 2 (2012): 147-50.
  • Erin Graff Zivin.; The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary, in Comparative Literature Studies. 48. 2 (2011): 241-246. 
  • Gunilla Lindberg-Wada, ed.; Studying Transcultural Literary History, in Comparative Literature Studies. 45. 3 (2008): 381-384.
  • Juan F. Tazón Salces and Isabel Carrera Suárez, eds.; Post/Imperial Encounters: Anglo-Hispanic Cultural Relations, in Comparative Literature Studies. 44. 3 (2007): 350-53. 
  • Dorothy M. Figueira.; Aryans, Jews, Brahmins. Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity, in Comparative Literature Studies.  42. 2 (2005): 326-329.

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