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  WEEK WITH...
       
  SYLVIA MOLLOY
   
 
   
  Sylvia Molloy is Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at NYU, where she teaches in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature. She obtained her Doctorat d’Université en Litterature Comparée (1967) and the License des Lettres et Littératures Modernes, Paris (Sorbonne, 1960). Her major interests are Latin American literature, Cultural Studies, feminist and queer theory, autobiography, and fin-de-siècle literatures. Among other works, she has published Las letras de Borges (Sudamericana 1979, republished in English as Signs of Borges, Duke University, 1994), At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America, Cambridge University Press. 1991), Women’s Writing in Latin America (edited with Sara Castro-Klaren and Beatriz Sarlo, Westview Press 1991).

In addition to the workshop Sylvia Molloy will conduct in RLL, she will offer two public lectures: “Errant Scribes: Travel and Translation” and “Rights of Property: Autobiographies, Fictions, and Quotes”. Her visit has been co-sponsored by the departments of RLL and Comparative Literature, the Women and Gender Studies Program and the Center for the Humanities.
   
   
     
     
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