E-mail: patricia.vilches@lawrence.edu

Professional Experience:

Sept. 2016-present. Professor of Spanish and Italian. Lawrence University (Retired).

Sept. 2014-2016. Professor of Spanish and Italian. Lawrence University.

Sept. 2002-May 2014. Associate Prof. of Spanish and Italian. Lawrence University (tenured 2005).

Sept. 2001-May 2002. Visiting Associate Prof. of Spanish and Italian. Lawrence University.

Sept. 2000-May 2001. Visiting Associate Prof. of Spanish. Lawrence University.

Aug. 1998-April 2000. Associate Prof. of Spanish and Italian. University of Evansville.

Aug. 1992-April 1998. Assistant Prof. of Spanish and Italian. University of Evansville.

Education:

June 1992. Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures. University of Chicago.

Dissertation: “Times of Mendacity (Censorship, Silence, Dissimulation, and Lies): A Study of Lying in 16th-Century and 17th-Century Italian and Spanish Literatures.”

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.

Fields of Research:

Latin American Cultural Studies.

Violeta Parra, Víctor Jara (Nueva Canción), Salvador Allende, Twentieth-Century Politics.

Alberto Blest Gana.

Transatlantic Studies Machiavelli, Cervantes’s Don Quijote, and Nineteenth-Century Chile.

Professional Organisations:

Modern Language Association

LASA

The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland

WISPS