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RUTH HILL
is Professor of Spanish. She received her
B.A. from Northwestern University and M.A. and Ph.D.
from
the University of Michigan--Ann Arbor. Her areas of research
and teaching include Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Latin American Studies, Critical Race Theory, Hemispheric Studies, Early Modern Science, Transatlantic Studies, Theories of Baroque and Neobaroque. She is the author of Sceptres and Sciences
in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy
(ca.
1680-1740) (2000), Hierarchy, Commerce and Fraud
in Bourbon Spanish America (2005), and numerous
essays on colonial Latin American studies and Spanish
literature.
She has
two book mansucripts in-progress: “Aztecs, Incas, and Other White Men: A Hemipsheric History of Hate” and “Critical Race Theory in Latin American (Con)Texts.”. Her research
has
been supported by Fulbright-Hays and NEH Fellowships.
Selected recent publications:
“Entre lo transatlántico y lo hemisférico: Los proyectos raciales de Andrés Bello” [“Between the Transatlantic and the Hemispheric: Andrés Bello’s Racial Projects”]. Otros estudios transatlánticos: lecturas desde lo latinoamericano, special issue of Revista Iberoamericana. Eds. Eyda Merediz and Nina Gerassi Navarro (forthcoming, 2008).
“El drama de hacer patria. Negrofobia, judeofobia y modernidad criolla en Frutos de la educación (1830)” [“The Drama of Nation-Building: Negrophobia, Judeophobia, and Criollo Modernity in Frutos de la educación (1830)”]. Eds. David Mauricio Solodkow and Juan Vitulli. Poéticas de lo criollo: inestabilidad semántica y heterogeneidadidentitaria. La transformación del concepto ‘criollo’ en las letrashispanoamericanas. Buenos Aires: Beatriz Viterbo (forthcoming, 2008).
“Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the Pre-History of Race in Latin America: Reflections on Caste and Hegemony in Valle y Caviedes.” Afro-Hispanic Review (in-press, Fall 2007).
“Between Black and White: A Critical Race Theory Approach to Caste Poetry in the Spanish New World.” Comparative Literature (in-press, Fall 2007).
“Hearing Las Casas Write: Rhetoric and the Facade of Orality in Brevísima relación.” MLA Approaches to Teaching Bartolomé de las Casas. Eds. Santa Arias and Eyda Merediz (in-press, 2007).
“Teaching the Pre-History of Race Along the Hispanic Transatlantic.” Dieciocho 30.1 (Spring 2007): 105-117.
“Conquista y modernidad, 1700-1766. Un enfoque transatlántico” [“Conquest and Modernity, 1700-1766: A Transatlantic Approach”]. Ed. Pablo Fernández Albaladejo. Fénix de España. Modernidad y cultura propia en la España del siglo XVIII (1737-1766). Madrid: Marcial Pons Historia, 2006. 57-71.
“Casta as Culture and the Sociedad de Castas as Literature.” Interpreting Colonialism. Eds. Byron Wells and Philip Stewart. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2004. 231-259.
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