South American Studies

South American Studies

Our faculty approaches South America from many regional, historical and theoretical perspectives. We do research into particular areas, especially in the Southern Cone and Andean regions as well as studies that examine issues of popular culture, indigenismo and race theory, parody, Avant Garde poetry, technology and identity, nation building in the nineteenth century, critical theory, and anthropological approaches to the development of cultural production. Our faculty have published widely on subjects that range as widely as oral traditions and popular theater in the 1800s to the use of print technologies in the 1900s to hip hop approaches to literature and film in the 2000s.