Norma Klahn

Norma Klahn is professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was co-founder/director of the “Chicano/Latino Research Center from 1993-1999 and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Literature from 2004-07. She received her Ph.D. at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and taught at Columbia University from 1978-1989 where she organized a graduate program on Mexico. She contributed to the section on “Mexican poetry” in the Handbook of Latin American Studies (1982-97), and collaborated in The Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society and Culture. She has published articles on Latin American, Mexican, and Chicano literary and cultural topics in, Revista Iberoamericana, Nuevo Texto Crítico, Revista de la Universidad de México, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Debate Feminista, among others. Among books published are: Lugar de encuentro: ensayos críticos sobre poesía mexicana (Katún, 1987); Los novelistas como críticos Vol. I & II (FCE, 1991); Las nuevas fronteras del siglo XXI (La Jornada/UNAM/UAM, 2000; and Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader (Duke University Press, 2003) in which she is both editor and contributor. Two recent publications are: “ Cuestionamientos genealógicos: ‘La Flor de Lis’ como autobiografía crítica;" and “Monsiváis entre la nación y la migra(na)ción" in El arte de la ironía: Carlos Monsiváis ante la crítica (Era, 2007). She is presently compiling a book of essays on the Mexican Novel.