Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel

Professor of Romance Languages

Colonial Latin American discourses and contemporary Caribbean and Latino narratives; colonial and postcolonial theory, migration and cultural studies. Professor Martínez-San Miguel is the author of Saberes americanos: subalternidad y epistemología en los escritos de Sor Juana (Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 1999) and Caribe Two Ways: cultura de la migración en el Caribe insular hispánico (Ediciones Callejón, 2003). She edited with Mabel Moraña the compilation of essays "Nictimene sacrílega: homenaje a Georgina Sabat de Rivers" (México: Iberoamericana and Claustro de Sor Juana 2003).  She is currently working on her third book project entitled From Lack to Excess: 'Minor' Readings of Latin American Colonial Discourse and a comparative study on internal Caribbean migrations between former/actual metropolis and colonies, using Puerto Rico and Martinique as case studies, to question transnational and postcolonial approaches to massive population displacements and their cultural productions.

• E-mail: yolandam@sas.upenn.edu
• Office: 506 Williams Hall
• Telephone: (215) 746-8896
• Fax: (215) 898-0933
• Office Hours: Spring 2008: MW 2-3 and by appt.