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The University of Connecticut
337 Mansfield Road U-1057
Storrs, CT 06269
Tel : 860-486-2529
E-mail: jacqueline.loss@uconn.edu
Area of Speciality:
Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies, Cuba, Comparative approaches
Biographical Note:
Dr. Jacqueline Loss (PhD, 2000, Comparative Literature, University of Texas-Austin) teaches Spanish and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. Her book Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place was published by Palgrave in December 2005. She is the co-editor of an anthology of Cuban short stories to be published by Northwestern University Press in 2007 and is an advisory editor of Literature from the "Axis of Evil" Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations . Among the writers she has translated into English are Cubans Víctor Fowler Calzada. Ernesto René Rodríguez, and Jorge Miralles. Her critical essays have appeared in Nepantla:Views from South , Miradas (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños), Chasqui , Latino and Latina Writers , Mandorla , and New Centennial Review , among other publications. She is currently preparing a manuscript whose working title is “Cultural Memory: Cuba and the Soviet Bloc.”
Selected Publications:
Book:
Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny
of Place. New York/London:
Palgrave/St.Martin’s Press, (November 2005). 230 pp.
Editions:
Cubanacán: New Short Fiction from Cuba, co-editor of book and co-author of introduction
with Esther Whitfield. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, (2006). PEN Club New York
Council of the Arts Translation Grant Award, (2006). 250 typescript pp.
Cuba Section of Literature from the Axis of Evil (Words without Borders Anthology,
Advisory editor; Ed. Blake Radcliffe, Alane Salierno Mason, Dedi Felman, and Samantha
Schnee, (2006).
Words without Borders (The Online Magazine for International Literature: Close But No
Cigar), co-guest editor with Esther Allen and Esther Whitfield, May 2005.
Articles:
“Wandering in Russian,” NG CUBA.The Special Period and the Culture of Late Socialism.
Ed.Ariana Hernández-Reguant. Entire Manuscript submitted to Palgrave. 40 typescript
pp.
"Amateurs and Professionals in Ena Lucía Portela’s Lexicon of Crisis." Latin American
Women Write the City, Ed. Anne Lambright and Elisabeth Guerrero. Minneapolis: U of
Minnesota P, (2006). 21 typescript pp.
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"Portraitures of Institutionalization," New Centennial Review 4.2 (2004): 77-101.
“Vintage Soviets in post-Cold War Cuba” Mandorla: Nueva Escritura de las Américas.7
(2003): 79-84.
Junot Díaz.” Latino and Latina Writers. Ed. Alan West-Durán. Detroit: Charles Scribner
and Sons, 2003. 803-816.
“Los manicomios como crítica y como mercancía.” Miradas, revista electrónica de La
Escuela Internacial de Cine y Televisión (San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Ed. Víctor
Fowler-Calzada). Fall 2003. 22 typescript pp.
"Global Arenas: Narrative and Filmic Translations of Identity,” Nepantla: Views from
South 4.2 (2003): 317-344.
Afterword to English Translation of Reinaldo Arenas’s El color del verano, co-authored
with translator Andrew Hurley. New York: Viking/Penguin, 2000. 409-117.
“Worldly Conjunctions and Disjunctions: On Cosmopolitanism and Nomadism in Diamela
Eltit’s Por la patria (1986) and El padre mío (1989),” Chasqui 29.2 (2000): 24-42.
“Art and Economics: Focus on Cuba,” co-authored with Esther Whitfield. David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Newsletter (Fall 1999): 24-26. Reprinted in
Virtual Institute of Caribbean Studies Newsletter, 4.1(2000).
“Peripatetics, Barbarians, and Dwellers in Le Sentier: Goytisolo’s Postcolonial
Cosmopolis in Paisajes después de la batalla,” Dactylus: Revista de Literatura y
Lingüística17(1998): 16-38.
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