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Francine Masiello
Francine Masiello is a Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor Emerita in the Departments of Spanish and Comparative Literature. Over her career, she developed a teaching and research arc covering Latin American literatures and comparative North/South cultures. Her work has focused on the relationship between politics and literature, culture under dictatorship and the transition to democracy, and, more recently, the global south as a problem for literature and philosophy.
The author of eight scholarly books and several critical editions and edited volumes, she publishes in venues in the United States and Latin America. Twice she received the Modern Language Association Prize for outstanding book in the field of Hispanic Studies; she also received the best book award from the Latin American Studies Association.
In recent years, she has turned her research attentions to the concept of “South” by taking as her examples Italy, the southern U.S, and Patagonia. Last year, she published her first novel, The Tomb of the Divers (New York, Bordighera, 2024), a saga that covers a family of small time crooks, plagiarists, and art forgers who travel three continents over the course of a century.
She has lived in Basilicata and knows southern Italy quite well.
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