Faculty
Associate Professor
Sophia McClennen
Dr. Sophia A. McClennen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Women’s Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Comparative Literature. She teaches Latin American cultural studies, inter-American literature, women’s world literature, media studies, and comparative cultural studies.
Her first book, The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time Language and Space in Hispanic Literature (Purdue 2004), is a comparative study of exile literature from Spain and Latin America. Her second book, Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She has also co-edited, with Earl E. Fitz, a volume on Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America (Purdue 2004) and with Henry James Morello, a volume entitled Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror (http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol9/iss1/ also appearing in book form with Purdue UP in 2009).
Her current research includes a special issue co-edited with Joseph Slaughter of Comparative Literature Studies on human rights and literary form and a book on globalization and resistance in Latin American Cinema.
She has received research grants from Fulbright, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Tinker Foundation, and HarvardUniversity. She has published and presented widely on comparative cultural studies and Latin America in journals such as CR: The New Centennial Review, JumpCut, College Literature, Comparative American Studies, MELUS, World Literature Today, A contracorriente, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Revista de estudios hispánicos, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Cultural Logic, and the ADFL Bulletin.
She is also the founder and webhost of Cinergia: A Web Resource for the Study of Spanish, Latin American and Latino Cinema. Her homepage can be visited here: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/s/a/sam50/.
