Hispanic Studies Faculty Bio

Mario Cesareo
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
CH-139 / 845.437.5609 / maesareo@vassar.edu
B.A., University of California, Irvine; M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Vassar faculty since 1994

Mario Cesareo, originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, holds a B.A. from the University of California, Irvine and a Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. His research and publications include Latin American colonial studies, Goden Age theatre, contemporary popular culture, Argentine literature, culture and cinema, Caribbean literature, US social movements, postcolonial studies, theatre semiotics, aesthetic and subaltern theory. Some of Mr. Cesareo's publications include Cruzados, mártires y beatos: emplazamientos del cuerpo colonial (Lafayette, In: Purdue UP, 1995); "When the Subaltern Travels: Slave Narrative and Testimonial Erasure in the Contact Zone," in Women at Sea: Gender, Travel, and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse, Eds. Lisa Paravisini-Gebert and Ivette Romero (NJ: St. Martin Press, 1999); and "Of Bedfellows and Illegitimate Offspring," in Literature and Anthropology: Strange Bedfellows, Ed. Rose De Angelis (London: Routledge, 2001). He is currently working on a book on the aesthetics of slavery (Of Africans: Slavery and Its Symbolic Production in the Americas) and is also completing The Eye's Postcript: Argentine Cinema and the Ecology of the Gaze.

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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

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