Dr. María Claudia André started at Hope in 1995. She is currently a professor of Spanish and chaired the Department of World Languages and Cultures from 2009 to 2015. She teaches all levels of Spanish, Introductory Portuguese, Translation and Interpretation and a variety of topics in Latin American cultures and literatures. 

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., philosophy with a modern Latin American and Spanish literature focus, State University of New York at Albany, 1995
• B.A., translation studies and English literature with a focus on law, Universidad del Salvador, 1984

Selected Grants

• Great Lakes College Association – Library of Congress Faculty – Student Research Program

Selection of PUBLISHED WORK

• “Rubén Darío y los Estados Unidos: tradición y modernidad” in Rubén Darío y los Estados Unidos, ed. Gerardo Piña Rosales and Carlos E. Paldao, Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, 2017
• “New Look, melodrama y poder: Eva Perón y la moda” in Pasado de moda, expresiones culturales y consumo en la Argentina, ed. Regina Root and Susan Halstead, Ampersand, 2017
• “Muralism, Graffiti, and Urban Art: Visual Politics in Contemporary Mexico City” in Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City, ed. Glen D. Kuecker and Alejandro Puga, Lexington Books
• “Rabindranath Tagore y Victoria Ocampo ante la crítica bengalí,” Letras Femeninas 42.2, 2017
• The Woman in Latin American and Spanish Literature: Essays on Iconic Characters, McFarland, 2012
• Dramaturgias argentinas de los años 20, Editorial Nueva Generación, 2010
• Seven Plays by Argenine Playwright Susana Torres Molina, The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006
• Latina Icons: Iconos Femeninos Latinos E Hispanoamericanos (La Mujer Latina), Floricanto Press, 2006
• Antologia de Escritoras Argentinas Contemporaneas, Editorial Biblos, March 2004