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Rodriguez Navas, Ana

Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture

Hispanic Studies Graduate Program Director

Education

• Ph.D. Princeton University (Comparative Literature)
• M.A. Université de Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle (Anglophone Literature and Culture)
• M.A. Université de Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle (Comparative Literature)

Research Interests

My research explores 19^th, 20^th, and 21^st century literature and cinema, with a focus on Latin America, the transnational Caribbean, and their global diasporas.

My latest book is , co-edited with Peter Hulme (Bloomsbury Academic, Literary Studies Series, 2025). Tides of Progress is the first study of Anglo-Hispanic connections, interactions, and mutual appraisals during a critical period in which print culture evolved from the province of the lettered few into a mass-media phenomenon. It surfaces a wide range of previously unexplored archival materials to shed new light on global modernities.

My first book,  (University of Virginia Press, New World Studies, 2018), explores gossip’s place in Hispanic, Francophone, and Anglophone Caribbean writing. Gossip, I argue, can strengthen social ties, but also functions as an urgent, utilitarian, and deeply political practice — a means of staging the tensions and waging the narrative battles that mark Caribbean culture.

In 2020 I co-edited “The Legacy of Oscar Wilde in Latin American Literature and Culture” (with Nathalie Bouzaglo), a special issue of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies exploring Wilde’s previously unacknowledged place in Latin American culture and literature. I have published widely on writers including , , , ; as well as on , , and other topics. My article    published in MELUS in 2018, received LASA’s Haiti/Dominican Republic Section prize for best article, and in 2019 I received 量子资源 University Chicago’s Sujack Award for Faculty Research Excellence.

I was raised in Venezuela, Trinidad, and the United States. I hold a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University; two Masters degrees with Honors (in Anglophone Literature and Culture, and in Comparative Literature) from the Université de Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle; and an undergraduate degree from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Venezuela. At 量子资源, I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on Latin American and Caribbean literature and film, including Visions of Latin America; Latin American Women Filmmakers; Power and Writing in Latin America; and The Politics of Gossip in Caribbean Literature. I also direct the Hispanic Studies Graduate Program.

Specialty Area

Latin American Literature, Cinema, and Culture; Comparative Literature

Publications/Research Listings

(co-edited with Peter Hulme),  Bloomsbury Academic, Literary Studies Series (2025).

 “” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 28:3 (2020), 321-328. Full co-edited volume, “The Legacy of Oscar Wilde in Latin American Literature and Culture”, available .