Faculty & Staff
Natalia Crespo
PhD, University of Illinois
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Office: 337 Walker
Phone: (906) 487-3246
eMail: nmcrespo @ mtu.edu
wSite: http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~nmcrespo
Professor Crespo’s research areas are Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Latin American literatures, contemporary Spanish Peninsular literature, creative writing, and technical Spanish. She is particularly interested in theoretical approaches to literature and in the connections between literature and social phenomena such as dictatorships, violence, globalization, and diasporas. She is currently writing a book tentatively entitled Parodia y Postdictadura: Reescrituras del Canon Nacional en la Literatura Hispánica Contemporánea [Parody and Post-dictatorship: Re-writing the National Canon in Contemporary Hispanic Literature] (1975-2000). As part of her work in technical Spanish, she has designed an interdisciplinary Spanish course about environment, sustainability, and renewable energies.
Her publications include:
- “Con-fusión, continuidad, la prolija contabilidad.” (Forthcoming Spring 2009, Letras Femeninas.)
- "Dulce de leche Agendaz". December 2008, www.grafemas.org.
- “A cuarenta años de la poesía de Hebe Solves: La Antología personal.” (Forthcoming Fall 2008, Letras Femeninas.)
- “Romper el silencio.” Chicana/Latina Studies 7.2 (Spring 2008): 50-53.
- “La otra selva de Boris Salazar como parodia de La vorágine.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 42.2 (May 2008): 279-99.
- “Infancia de Yomisma y otros poemas.” Chiricú (Fall 2004): 54-56.
- “Deben haber.” Ajiaco 3 (Spring 2003): 19-24.
- “Tu quinto cumpleaños.” Veinte jóvenes cuentistas del Cono Sur. Buenos Aires: Colihue, 1997. 53-58.