Women's Studies Affiliate Faculty
Eliana RiveroPh.D., Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Dr. Rivero was born in Cuba and immigrated to the U.S. in 1961. She received her Ph.D. in 1968 from the University of Miami, Coral Gables. She is professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese where she teaches Latin American and U.S. Latino/Latina literatures and cultures. She is also adjunct Professor of Women's Studies and Latin American Studies. Since the early eighties she has been writing about the experience of Chicanos and U.S. Latinos, and has published many scholarly pieces and autobiographical essays on these topics. Her work has been awarded research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Rockefeller Foundation. Her biography and publications have recently been reviewed in an essay contained in the volume Notable Hispanic American Women. Rivero's present research and writing deals mostly with theoretical/autobiographical approaches to Latina identity and consciousness, and with Cuban American representatives of women's images in literature and popular culture. Her scholarly work in progress also includes a collection of essays on U.S. Latino/Latina literatures. She has two books of poetry in Spanish: De cal y arena and Cuerpos breves. She is now finishing a novelette in Spanish entitled Mujer prohibida. Rivero has coauthored and coedited the volumes Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (UArizona Press, 1993, now in its third printing), and Telling To Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Duke UP, 2002), recipient of the Myers Awards for Diversity and now in its second printing.