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Cynthia Steele
Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature
Areas of Study: Latin American literature, film and photography; postcolonial and feminist theory
Cynthia Steele is Professor of Comparative Literature, a member of the Cinema Studies faculty, and Chair of the Department. She teaches courses in Latin American film and narrative, as well as on the history of film and film noir. Her first two books were /Narrativa indigenista en los Estados Unidos y México/ and /Politics, Gender and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988/. At present she is writing a book about literature from Chiapas, including Mayan authors, photographers and filmmakers. Recently she has begun working on Central American narrative and on the Latin American narconovela, as well as on New Argentinean and Mexican Cinemas. She has also translated Mexican fiction and poetry, including works by Inés Arredondo, Elena Poniatowska, and José Emilio Pacheco.
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