Magdalena Maiz-Peña

Magdalena Maiz-Peña, professor and Chair of Spanish at Davidson College, specializes in twentieth-century Latin American Women Writers, life-writing and the politics of representation, and contemporary Latin American literary and cultural narratives. Her teaching interests include basic and intermediate language courses, introduction to Hispanic literatures and cultures, contemporary Latin American literatures, and the Latin American city and its historical and cultural representation. She received a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctorate from Arizona State University. She has contributed to numerous scholarly publications, authored Identidad, nación y gesto autobiográfico, and co-edited Modalidades de representación del sujeto auto/biográfico femenino. Her recent publications have appeared in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and the U.S. Maiz-Peña is presently working on a book project on Urban Spaces, Gender, and Cultural Production in Mexico 1920-1950 and is co-editing selected critical works of Elena Poniatowska.