Liria C. Evangelista

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Liria C. Evangelista, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and taught at Middlebury College and Dickinson College, before going back to her country to work for the Centro Universitario de Idiomas, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires. There she developed the Spanish Program for Foreigners, and coordinated the English Program, also working as General Academic Director until 2004. A specialist in cultural studies and Argentine Literature, she has published a book on the issues of cultural memory during post-dictatorship Argentina, as well as several articles on Latin American and Spanish Literature. She has also presented her work on methodology of foreign language teaching at national and international conferences. She teaches Latin American History and Culture to American students at the Universidad de Belgrano and works for the Middlebury Program in Latin America, where she teaches the mandatory writing course Cuaderno Latinoamericano. She is presently teaching two courses at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires: Art and Horror during the XIXth Century and Popular Literature in the XIXth Century.