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Return to Theory and practice of the Peruvian Grupo Chaski

Sophia A. McClennen

Dr.  Sophia A. McClennen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, where she teaches 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 (available on-line and forthcoming in book format from Purdue 2009). She has published and presented widely on comparative cultural studies and Latin America in journals such as College Literature, CR: The New Centennial Review, 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.

A firm believer in the potential of free-access websites to promote critical dialogue and advance scholarly and political engagement, McClennen has long been committed to using the Internet to advance the study of cinema and she hosts a website, Cinergía, dedicated to the study of Spanish, Latin American, and Latino cinema. The website includes a number of “movie files” that are useful teaching guides for films. The resources on the site are used by students and scholars across the globe. Her website, which also includes a number of resources, can be accessed here:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/s/a/sam50/.  

She welcomes comments on this essay, on her websites, or on any aspect of her work at: sam50@psu.edu.