Luz A Kirschner

Luz Kirschner

Associate Professor

Education

Academic and Professional Experience

Academic Interests
Academic Interests
  • Latin American literatures and cultures
  • Latina/o literatures and cultures
  • Inter-American Studies
  • Diaspora
  • U.S. ethnic literatures
  • Globalization
  • Human rights
  • Transatlantic studies
  • Transnationalism
  • Minority writing
  • Cultures in Germany
Work Experience
  • 2022 to present - associate professor, South Dakota State University
  • 2016- 2022 - assistant professor, South Dakota State University
  • 2008-2016 - permanent full-time tenured lecturer, Bielefeld University, Germany
  • Summer 2010-2016 - visiting professor, University of Guadalajara, Mexico
  • Summer 2012 and 2013 - short-term visiting research scholar at Penn State University

Research and Scholar Work

Areas of Research

Collections (Edited and Co-Edited Books)

  1. Human Rights in the Americas. Co-editors Mar铆a Herrera-Sobek and Francisco A. Lomel铆. Routledge, 2021. 334 pp.
  2. Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective. Bilingual Press/Editorial Biling眉e (Arizona State University), 2012. 282 pp.

Reviewed by Stephanie Siewert in 鈥溾橝merica at large?鈥 Inter-American Studies, Transnationalism and the Hemispheric Turn: Research Survey and Review of the Book Series Inter-American Studies/Estudios Interamericanos (vol. I-V).鈥 Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly 60. 4. (2015): 533-47. 


Articles Published in Refereed Journals

  1. .鈥 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 8.4 (2006)


Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

  • 鈥淚ntroduction to Human Rights in the Americas.鈥 Human Rights in the Americas. Co-authors Mar铆a Herrera-Sobek and Francisco A. Lomel铆. Routledge, 2021. 1-28.
  • Cap谩 Prieto and the Decolonial Afro-Latin(o/a) American Imagination.鈥 Human Rights in the Americas. Routledge, 2021. 223-242.
  • 鈥淢igrant Literature.鈥The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas. Eds. Wilfried Raussert, Giselle Liza Anatol, Sebastian Thies, Sarah Corona Berkin and Jos茅 Carlos Lozano. Co-author Miriam Brandel. Routledge, 2020. 147-155.
  • 鈥淟补迟颈苍颈诲补诲.鈥 The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas. Eds. Olaf Kaltmeyer, Josef Raab, Mike Foley, Alice Nash, Mario Rufer. Routledge, 2019. 339-346.
  • Brazuca Literature: Old and New Currents, Countercurrents and Undercurrents.鈥 The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature. Eds. Laura Lomas and John Mor谩n Gonz谩lez. Cambridge UP, 2018. 602-20. (The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature is 2018 Choice 鈥淥utstanding Academic Title鈥)                 
  • 鈥淓虫辫补苍诲颈苍驳 Latinidad: A Hemispheric Perspective.鈥 The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies. Ed. Wilfried Raussert. Routledge, 2017. 77-91.
  • 鈥淗uman Rights and Minority Rights: Argentine and German Perspectives.鈥 The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights. Eds. Sophia McClennen and Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Routledge, 2015. 361-372.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥淓虫辫补苍诲颈苍驳 Latinidad: An Introduction.鈥 Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective. Ed. Luz Ang茅lica Kirschner. Bilingual Press/Editorial Biling眉e (Arizona State University), 2012. 1-56. 
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥Samba Dreamers; or, the Tenuousness of a 鈥楶erfect Ending鈥.鈥 Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective. Ed. Luz Ang茅lica Kirschner. Bilingual Press/Editorial Biling眉e (Arizona State University), 2012. 133-52.
  • 鈥淐ecilia Absatz鈥檚 Los a帽os pares or the Challenges of Reevaluating Autochthonous Latinamericanism.鈥&苍产蝉辫;鈥Nach Amerika n盲mlich! - J眉dische Migrationen in die Amerikas im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.&苍产蝉辫;(鈥To America!鈥 Jewish Migrations to the Americas in the 19th and 20th Centuries) Ed. Ulla Kriebernegg, Gerald Lamprecht, Roberta Maierhofer and Andrea Strutz. Wallstein Verlag, 2012. 335-53.
  • [Reprinted in InterAmerican Perspectives in the 21st Century: Festschrift in Honor of Josef Raab. Edited by Wilfried Raussert and Olaf Kaltmeier. Wissenschafticher Verlag Trier/University of New Orleans Press, 2021. 91-106]. 


Refereed Contributions to Reference Works

  • 鈥淟atinos and Latinas in the United States: History, Culture and Literature,鈥 2: 551-54.&苍产蝉辫;鈥淧uerto Rico: History, Culture and Literature,鈥 2: 811-14. 鈥淧uerto Rico: Generaci贸n del treinta (1930s Generation)," 2: 809-11.&苍产蝉辫;鈥淚lan Stavans,鈥 3: 936-37. 鈥淭ato Laviera,鈥 2: 557-58.  World Literature in Spanish:  An Encyclopedia. Ed. Maureen Ihrie and Salvador Oropesa. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2011.
  • 鈥淕loria Anzald煤a: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.鈥&苍产蝉辫;The Literary Encyclopedia: Exploring Literature, History and Culture. Vol.3.2.7.: Chicano/Latino/Writing and Culture of the United States. Eds. Emory Elliot, Nuala Finnegan and Stephen E. Meats. First published 24 Oct. 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com, accessed February 7, 2019.]
  • 鈥淓lisa Lerner,鈥 273-75. 鈥淎ngelina Mu帽iz-Huberman,鈥 355-57. 鈥淩eina Roff茅,鈥 452-54. Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Mar铆a Claudia Andr茅 and Eva Bueno. Routledge, 2008.
  • 鈥淢achismo,鈥 3: 54-59. 鈥淣avidad,鈥 3: 229-32. 鈥淨uincea帽era,鈥 3: 440-42.  Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, Society. Ed. Ilan Stavans. 3 vols. Grolier, 2005.


Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

  1. 鈥淲elcoming New Americans: A View from South Dakota.鈥 Proceedings from the Eighteenth Annual Cambio de Colores/Change of Colors Meeting of the Cambio Center, June 5-7 2019: Welcoming Immigrants and Newcomers in Turbulent Times: Knowledge, Connections and Actions, edited by Stephen Jeanetta and Corinne Valdivia. Co-author Christine Garst-Santos. Cambio Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2020, pp. 47-52.


Book Reviews 

  • Beushausen, Wiebke, et al., eds. Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean: Narratives, Aesthetics and Politics, in Critical Reviews on Latin American Research 鈥&苍产蝉辫;CROLAR. 8. 1 (2019): 66-68.
  • Raanan Rein coord.; Mar铆a Jos茅 Cano P茅rez and Beatriz Molina Rueda, eds. M谩s all谩 del Medio Oriente. Las diasporas jud铆a y 谩rabe en Am茅rica Latina, in E.I.A.L. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe. 23. 2 (2012): 147-50.
  • Erin Graff Zivin.; The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary, in Comparative Literature Studies. 48. 2 (2011): 241-246. 
  • Gunilla Lindberg-Wada, ed.; Studying Transcultural Literary History, in Comparative Literature Studies. 45. 3 (2008): 381-384.
  • Juan F. Taz贸n Salces and Isabel Carrera Su谩rez, eds.; Post/Imperial Encounters: Anglo-Hispanic Cultural Relations, in Comparative Literature Studies. 44. 3 (2007): 350-53. 
  • Dorothy M. Figueira.; Aryans, Jews, Brahmins. Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity, in Comparative Literature Studies.  42. 2 (2005): 326-329.
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