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Luz Kirschner

Luz A Kirschner

Title

Associate Professor

Office Building

Lincoln Hall

Office

315

Mailing Address

Lincoln Hall 315
School of American & Global Studies-Box 2212
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Education

Ph. D. Department of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University.
Minor in Criticism, Theory, and Aesthetics.

M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Magister Artium [M.A.] Amerikanistik und Literaturwissenschaft [American and Literary Studies], Bielefeld University, Germany.

B.A. Lenguas Modernas [Modern Languages], Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

Academic Interests

Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Latina/o Literatures and Cultures, Inter-American Studies, Diaspora, U.S. Ethnic Literatures, Globalization, Human Rights, Transatlantic Studies, Transnationalism, Minority Writing and Cultures in Germany.

Work Experience

2022 to present Associate Professor, South Dakota State University

2016- 2022 Assistant Professor, South Dakota State University

2008-2016 Permanent Full-Time Tenured Lecturer, Bielefeld University, Germany

Summer 2010-2016 Visiting Professor, University of Guadalajara, Mexico

Summer 2012 and 2013 Short-Term Visiting Research Scholar at Penn State University



Department(s)

Open Prairie

Open PRAIRIE - Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange

Selected Works