Faculty
Assistant Professor
Guadalupe Martí-Peña
Professor Martí-Peña teaches courses in Spanish-American Contemporary Narrative and Cultural/Literary Critical Theory. Before coming to Penn State she taught at University of Washington (1984-1987), University of Denver (1987-1988) and at Paris III-Sorbone Nouvelle (1996-1997).
Her research interests include Spanish American writers whose inter-textual writings bridge the gap between high and low cultural practices (specially Manuel Puig and Mario Vargas Llosa), as well Inter-Art Discourses, primarily the dialogue between Literature and Painting. Professor Martí-Peña published the first comprehensive annotated bibliography on Manuel Puig’s criticism (Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 1997), which has proven to be an essential research tool and lead her to participate in research institutes (CRICCAL-Paris & Research Group on Manuel Puig-Buenos Aires) and to collaborate in the critical edition of El beso de la mujer araña, under the direction of José Amícola y Jorge Panesi (Colección Archivos, París: UNESCO, 2002).
She is also the author of several articles and reviews in such journals as Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Hispamérica, Chasqui. Texto Crítico and Revista Interamericana de Bibliografía. Her article “El verbo se hizo carne y nos habitó: The Buenos Aires Affair de Manuel Puig y los cuadros de Mark Tansey” is scheduled to appear in The Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies in January 2008.
Her current research project is a study of the role of painting in several novels by Spanish and Spanish-American writers. Professor Martí-Peña is a recipient of the 2001 Outstanding Teaching Award for Non-Tenure Faculty in the College of Liberal Arts.
