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Elizabeth Horan teaches Literature of the Americas, with a particular interest in the literature of immigration and the global intersections of English and Spanish. Courses on Nobel Laureates, World Literature, plus advanced undergraduate and graduate seminars in Cultural and Critical Theory are a regular part of her assignments. She takes particular pride in the many students whom she has mentored, who have gone on to complete intellectually satisfying, quality graduate and undergraduate theses and dissertations. An affiliate faculty in the Women and Gender Studies and in Transborder Chicano Latino Studies, she served as English Department Chair in 2002-2004, preceded by terms as Associate Chair and Director of Comparative Literature. Horan holds the BA in Arts/Creative Writing from Barnard College, the PhD in Literature (Spanish and English) from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and did further graduate study in Information, Archives, and Organization at the University of Michigan’s School of Information in 2001-2002. Horan is currently completing projects in several areas: a critical biography of Chilean poet-diplomat Gabriela Mistral, the first in Spanish or English to be based wholly on primary sources, to be released simultaneously with a documentary film with Wood Producciones in Chile, on the discovery of a large, previously closed private archive of letters, manuscripts, photographs, and other documents; Horan is also completing studies of Latino autobiography, Emily Dickinson, and Pablo Neruda. She has taught in the University of California, Santa Cruz, Tufts University and Wheelock College in Massachusetts, the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, the University of Costa Rica in San José, and Grand Valley State University in Michigan. She has held Fulbright fellowships to Chile and Costa Rica, research fellowships from Harvard University and the NEH, awards from the Chilean government and the Organization of American States, and international writers’ residencies from Ledig House in New York, and the Fundación Valparaíso, in Spain. |
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Elizabeth Horan’s teaching and research engages the global contexts of American (including Latin American) Literatures. She writes from primary source materials (diaries, letters, old newspapers, manuscripts, oral histories) to reveal hidden lives and broad networks of influence among writers, politicians, and educators across national and other borders. She has published numerous books, articles and reviews in the fields of translation, archives and print history, critical theory and religious studies. An acclaimed collection of letters co-edited with scholar Doris Meyer, Esta America Nuestra (2007; This America of Ours, 2003) was widely reviewed in Argentina, Chile as well as the U.S. and the U.K.