Anke Birkenmaier
Assistant Professor
Anke Birkenmaier received her academic training at the University of Tübingen, Germany (M.A.), and at Yale University (Ph.D.). She teaches contemporary Latin American literature and culture. Her research interests include Latin American anthropology and literature, radio and media theory in France and Latin America, Surrealism, and fictions of “dirty realism.” Together with Roberto González Echevarría, she is the editor of Cuba: un siglo de literatura (1902-2002) (Madrid: Colibrí, 2004). Her book Alejo Carpentier y la cultura del surrealismo en América Latina (Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2006) received the Latin American Studies Association’s award for the outstanding book on Latin America in the social sciences and the humanities published in Spanish or Portuguese.
Her articles have appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Cuban Studies, Revista Hispánica Moderna, among others. In her current book project she studies the internationalization of Latin American anthropology and letters in the 1930s.
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