E-mail: patricia.vilches@lawrence.edu
Professional Experience:
September 2016–present
Professor of Spanish and Italian Lawrence University.
September 2014–2020
Professor of Spanish and Italian and Scholar in Residence Harlaxton College (invited position)
September 2002–2014
Associate Professor of Spanish and Italian Lawrence University
2001–2002
Visiting Associate Prof. of Spanish and Italian Lawrence University
2000–2001
Visiting Associate Professor of Spanish Lawrence University
1998–2000
Associate Professor of Spanish and Italian University of Evansville
1992– 1998 Assistant Professor of Spanish and Italian University of Evansville
Education:
June 1992
Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures. University of Chicago
June 1987
M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures. University of Chicago
June 1986
B.A. (with College Honors) in Italian. University of Illinois at Chicago
Teaching and Research Interests:
Violeta Parra, Víctor Jara (Nueva Canción),
Salvador Allende, Twentieth-Century Politics Chile
Alberto Blest Gana
Space and Latin America
Transatlantic Studies Machiavelli, Cervantes’s Don Quijote, and Nineteenth-Century Chile
Spanish and Italian languages (all levels)
Professional Organizations:
The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
LASA
Modern Language Association