Hispanic Studies Faculty Bio

Michael Aronna
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair 2007/08
CH-117 / 845.437.7680 / miaronna@vassar.edu
B.A., M.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Vassar faculty since 1995

Michael Aronna, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, has a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literature from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.A. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from SUNY, Stony Brook.

Mr. Aronna is the co-editor and translator of The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America (Duke University Press) and the author of ‘Pueblos enfermos’: The Discourse of Illness in the Turn-of-the-Century Spanish and Latin American Essay (University of North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures). His research interests include the relation between medical discourse and notions of national identity, testimonial narrative and literary and cultural theory.

Michael Aronna has taught courses in Latin American cultural history, colonial and modern Latin American literature and culture. He is also a participating faculty member in the Latin American Studies Program.

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Professors

• Michael Aronna, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair 2007/08
• Andrew Bush, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair 2008/09
• Mario Cesareo, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
• Mihai Grünfeld, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
• Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Professor of Hispanic Studies on the Randolph Distinguished Professor Chair and Director of Africana Studies Program
• Nicolas Vivalda, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
• Eva María Woods, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies