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Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo
Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Associate Professor of English
Contact Information
Office: 43 Mine Street, 202
Campus: College Ave, New Brunswick
Email: msaldana@rci.rutgers.edu
Telephone: (732) 932-5713
Office Hours:

On Leave 2006-07

Specialization
postmodern and modern fiction
Biography

B.A., Yale; Ph.D., Stanford

Professor Saldaña-Portillo is the author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke University Press, 2003).  Her current research project, Colonial Melancholy and the Racial Geography of the Postmodern Americas compares the lasting effects of British and Spanish racial projects in the Americas on postmodern and modern fiction.  Professor Saldaña-Portillo is also researching the economic causes and political consequences of recent Mexican immigration to the New York metropolitan area.

Publications
The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development
Undergraduate Courses Taught

Chicano/Chicana Literatures

Seminar in Postcolonial Literature

Caribbean Women Writers

 
 
 
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