Contact Information: Office: Wilson 127 Phone: 924-4649 E-mail: lagos@virginia.edu Mail: P.O. Box 400777 Adviser to Spanish majors; Spanish Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and Graduate Committee

MARÍA INÉS LAGOS is Professor of Spanish. Born in Santiago, Chile, she did her undergraduate work in Hispanic Literatures and Classics at the Catholic University of Valparaíso, and her M.A., and Ph.D. at Columbia University in New York. She has taught at The City College (CUNY), Dartmouth College, several summers at the Spanish Summer School at Middlebury College in Vermont (between 1980 and 1986), was a visiting faculty at Vassar College (Fall 1983), and from 1980 to 1988 an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton where she directed CUSH (Center for the Study of US Hispanics), 1987-88. At the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis from 1988 to 2002, she also taught courses in the Women's Studies Program. In 1995 she started and then directed Washington University's Study Abroad Program in Santiago, Chile; was a member of the Women's Studies executive committee since 1992, and for ten years coordinated the Women's Studies reading group in feminist theory (1991-2001); was president elect (1996-97) and president (1997-98) of the Association of Women Faculty in the Hilltop Campus (AWF). She joined the department in the fall of 2002. She serves in the editorial board of Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Nomadías (University of Chile), and is reader for Letras Femeninas. Her fields of concentration are Latin American narrative, Latin American women's fiction in the 20th century, and gender theory. She has authored and edited several books and published numerous articles. She is presently working on “Gender and Subjectivity in Narratives by Latin American Women.”

Selected publications:

H. A. Murena en sus ensayos y narraciones: de líder revisionista a marginado. Santiago: Ediciones del Maitén, 1989.

En tono mayor: relatos de formación de protagonista femenina en Hispanoamérica. Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 1996.

Exile in Literature, editor. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1988.

La palabra en vilo: narrativa de Luisa Valenzuela. Co-editor. Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 1996.

Creación y resistencia: la narrativa de Diamela Eltit, 1983-1998, editor. Monographic Series, Revista Nomadías, University of Chile. Santiago: CEGECaL / Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2000.

“Relatos de formación de protagonista femenina en Hispanoamérica: desde Ifigenia (1924) hasta Hagiografía de Narcisa la bella (1985).” Narrativa Femenina en América Latina: Prácticas y perspectivas teóricas. Sara Castro-Klarén, ed. Frankfurt (Germany): Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2003. 237-57.

“Conflicting Body Signs in Rosario Ferré’s ‘La muñeca menor’.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 37 (2003): 167-87.

“Female Voices from The Borderlands: Isabel Allende’s Paula and Retrato en sepia”. Special Issue: Isabel Allende Today. Editors: Rosemary G. Feal and Yvette E. Miller. Latin American Literary Review 30, no.60 (2002): 112-27.

“Sujeto mujer y gobierno militar en Conversación al sur de Marta Traba.” Las grietas del proceso civilizatorio. Ana Pizarro, editor. Santiago: LOM, 2002. 53–68.

"Sujeto y representación: viaje al mundo del Otro en narraciones de Julio Cortázar, Luisa Valenzuela y Clarice Lispector." Letras femeninas, XXVII, No.1 (2001). Special Issue devoted to Luisa Valenzuela. Edited by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. 68-82.

"Deconstrucción del estereotipo hispánico en narraciones de Julia Alvarez, Cristina García y Esmeralda Santiago." Studies in Honor of Myron Lichtblau, Fernando Burgos, editor. Newark: Editorial Juan de la Cuesta, 2000. 195-214.

"Lenguaje, género y poder en Los vigilantes de Diamela Eltit." Creación y resistencia: la narrativa de Diamela Eltit, 1983-1998, M. I. Lagos, editor. Monographic Series of Nomadías. Santiago: CEGECAL/ Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2000. 129-47.

"Cuerpo y subjetividad en narraciones de Andrea Maturana, Ana María del Río y Diamela Eltit." Revista Chilena de Literatura, No. 50 (1997): 97-109.

"Balún-Canán: una novela de formación de protagonista femenina." Revista Hispánica Moderna, Vol. L, No. 1 (June 1997): 159-79.

"Sujeto, sexualidad y literatura en 'Cambio de armas' y Novela negra con argentinos de Luisa Valenzuela". La palabra en vilo: narrativa de Luisa Valenzuela. Gwendolyn Díaz and María Inés Lagos, eds. Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 1996. 131-61.

"Displaced Subjects: Valenzuela and the Metropolis." World Literature Today 69, 4 (Fall 1995): 726-32.

"Confessing to the Father: Marks of Gender and Class in Ursula Suárez's (1666-1749) Relación." MLN 110 (1995): 353-84.

"Familia, sexualidad y dictadura en Oxido de Carmen de Ana María del Río," Special Issue of Inti. Revista de Literatura Hispánica, The Configuration of Feminist Criticism and Theoretical Practices in Hispanic Literary Studies, 40 (Fall 1994): 207-17. Edited by Cynthia Duncan.

"Reflexiones sobre la representación del sujeto en dos textos de Diamela Eltit: Lumpérica y El cuarto mundo." Una poética de literatura menor: la narrativa de Diamela Eltit. Juan Carlos Lértora, ed. Santiago: Ediciones Cuarto Propio, 1993. 127-40.

"Cat/Logos: The Narrator's Confession in Julieta Campos' 'Celina o los gatos,'" Splintering Darkness: Latin American Women Writers in Search of Themselves, Lucía Guerra Cunningham, ed., Pittsburgh: Latin American Review Press, 1990, 31-42.

"Estructura dual y sociedad patriarcal en María," Revista de Estudios Colombianos 8 (1990): 12-20.

"El testimonio creativo de Hasta no verte, Jesús mío," Revista Iberoamericana 150 (1990): 243-53.