Contact Information

Office: 3150 JFSB

Phone: 422-3106

E-mail: mara_garcia@byu.edu

Website: http://spanport.byu.edu/faculty/GarciaM/new/entrar

Dr. Mara L. Garcia, Associate Professor of Spanish was born and raised in Trujillo-Peru. Currently, she lives in the United States. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1997 in Latin American Literature. She is a creative writer in Spanish and she likes to write short stories. Her area of specialty is Latin American prose narrative, although her interests also include theater and poetry. Her area of research includes Latin American female literature (Inside and outside spaces, female initiation, female identity, female quest etc). She has published several articles, interviews, book reviews on Latin American Literature and has published the book Escritoras Venezolanas de hoy, 2005 and La casa de calamina (Short stories), 1997, co-editor of two books: Baúl de recuerdos: Homenaje a Elena Garro, 1999 (First recognition to Garro, after her death) and Todo ese fuego: Homenaje a Merlin Forster, 1999. Most of her publications to date have been on Elena Garro, Vargas Llosa, Rosario Castellanos, Bioy Casares, and Bombal among others. President-founder of Vallejo’s Institute 2002 (Utah-EEUU) and Honorary Member of Vallejo’s Institute in Trujillo-Peru, 2004. She has received several recognitions for her research on Elena Garro and work related to culture and Latin American Literature.

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