Modern Latin American Literatures and Cultures

Research Area Latin American literature and cultural history, from Independence to the present. Specific research topics: Bandit narratives, Gothic Literature, Romanticism. Books Bandit Narratives, from Villa to Chávez. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. ​​ Nightmares of the Lettered City: Banditry and Literature in Latin America, 1816-1929. Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas . Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2007. Winner of the 2010 Kayden Book Award for literary studies...

Research Areas 20th-21st Century Spanish American Narrative and Poetry; Literary Theory particularly in the areas of narratology and poetics, Crime fiction, the historical novel, Avant-Garde and Modernist poetry, non-fiction narratives, and Andean literatures. Literary Criticism La estación de los encuentros. Lima: Peisa, 2010. El perfil de la palabra. La obra de Julio Ramón Ribeyro. Lima:Fondo Editorial de la PUCP-Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2002. La fábrica de la memoria. La crisis...

Research Areas Spanish American women writers and journalists of the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on fashion, consumption and identity politics in Argentina. Doctoral Dissertation: Fashionation: Politics of Dress and Gender in Nineteenth Century Argentina , 2006 About A faculty member of the CU-Boulder Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dr. Hallstead specializes in 19 th century Argentine fashion narratives and has several publications on Argentine narratives. She has traveled frequently...

Research Areas 20th-21st Century Mexican Literature and Culture; Language for Specific Purposes Studies (LSP); Spanish for the Professions; Cross-cultural Communication and Exchange between Latin America and the United States; Globalization and Cultural Identity Books Mexico Reading the United States Co-edited with Linda Egan, Nashville TN: Vanderbilt UP, 2009. Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino and Iberian Texts and Cultures. Co-edited with Leila Gómez, Asunción Horno-Delgado and Núria Silleras-Fernández. Rotterdam: Sense...