Marisela A. Funes Assistant Professor of Spanish Spanish

Office: Lovejoy 324 Phone: 207-859-4679 Fax: 859-4405 Email: mafunes@colby.edu Mailing Address: 8276 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8882

Education

PhD, University of Illinois-Urbana partner: Blair Jones

Areas of Expertise:

Contemporary Latin American novel and film Literature and medicine Southern Cone Literature and memory Gender Studies

Other Courses Taught

Course Course Title SP498 Postmodernism in Latin America SP298B Contemporary Argentine Literature and Film SP298 Indigenismo RH112 Residence Hall Book Seminar: "The Book of Memories"

Current Research

Writing Bodies, Seeing Texts: Reading Medical Authority in Marta Lynch's Informe bajo llave Somos pacientes: Trauma and Humor in postcoup Argentina Me estoy volviendo loca yo tambien: Female Alliance and Gender Identity in Marta Traba's Conversacion al sur Amarias a una mujer manca? Silvina Ocampo y la retorica del psicoanalisis

Publications

The Medicalization of the Body Politic in Postcoup Argentine Film: Eliseo Subiela's Hombre mirando sudeste. History and Film in Latin America. Ed. Hector Jaimes. Duke UP, forthcoming. (Pre)texto, parodia e interpretacion en La pasion de los nomades de Maria Rosa Lojo. Alba de America 33 (1999): 149-160.