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Department of Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese

Michael Palencia-Roth



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Professor of Comparative and World Literature

Trowbridge Scholar in Literary Studies

Education
  • B.A. in English and Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, 1968
  • M.A. in Comparative Literature, Harvard University, 1971
  • Ph.D in Comparative Literature, Harvard University, 1976
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Areas of Specialization
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to literature
  • Modern Latin American literature
  • European and Latin American literary relations
  • The Faustian tradition
  • Theory and practice of comparative civilizational analysis
  • Comparative colonizations
  • The discovery of America

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