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), Michigan State University 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 and Detective Fiction. 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, The Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Hispamérica, Chasqui. Texto Crítico and Revista Interamericana de Bibliografía. Her article “The Power of Imagination: Mario Vargas Llosa” is scheduled to appear in Romance Notes 49.1 (2010) and her essay, “Presencia/Ausencia y Différance en Elogio de la madrastra y Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto de Mario Vargas Llosa” will come out in Mario Vargas Llosa: perspectivas críticas in January 2010 (Editorial Miguel Ángel Porrúa).
She is currently working on a book on Mario Vargas Llosa entitled “Sandcastles: Narrative, Pictorial and Theatrical Illusionism in Mario Vargas Llosa”.
