Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Raul Marrero-Fente

Raul Marrero-Fente Associate Professor of Spanish & Law
Fall 2009 Office Hours: THURS: 5:00-6:00pm
Office: 27 Folwell 
Phone: 612-626-2540
Email: rmarrero@umn.edu
Scholarly Interests: • Trans-Atlantic studies • Colonial Latin American literature and culture • Early Modern Spanish literature and culture • Colonial and Post-colonial studies • Global studies • Feminist and Gender studies • Critical Race Studies • Human Rights • Law and literature
Department Affiliations
  • Spanish & Portuguese
  • Law School
Degrees and Institutions:
  • Ph.D.: Hispanic Literatures, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997.
  • M.A.: Hispanic Literatures, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1995.
  • J.D.: Legal Theory, University of Camaguey, Cuba, 1985.
Recent Publications:
  • Playas del árbol:  Una visión trasatlántica de las literaturas hispánicas(Madrid: Huerga & Fierro, 2002).
  • Epica, imperio y  comunidad en el Nuevo Mundo:  Espejo de paciencia  de Silvestre de Balboa(Salamanca:  Centro de Estudios Ibéricos y Americanos,  2002).
  • La poética de la ley en las Capitulaciones de Santa Fe (Madrid:  Editorial Trotta, 2000).
  • Al margen de la tradición:  Relaciones entre la literatura colonial y peninsular de los siglos XV, XVI, y XVII (Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos, 1999).
  • Editor of Poéticas de la restitución.  Literatura y cultura en Hispanoamérica colonial (Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2005).
  • Editor of Perspectivas transatlánticas.  Estudios coloniales hispanoamericanos (Madrid: Verbum, 2004).
Awards:
  • Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and United States Universities.
  • Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Columbia University.
  • Charles H. Watts Fellowship. John Carter Brown Library. Brown University.
  • Newberry Library Fellowship. Newberry Library, Chicago.
Visiting Professorships
  • Visiting Fellow, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain. (1998, 2000, 2002).
  • Universidad de Concepción, Chile (2004)
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