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Maria de Lourdes DávilaPrinter Friendly Printer Friendly

Clinical Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. 1994, Harvard University; BA1989, Harvard College.

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Research Interests:

19th and 20th Century Latin American Literature; focus on Southern Cone, Puerto Rican Literature, Latino Studies, Literary Criticism, Aesthetics and Interartistic Studies, Popular Culture, and Translation.

Affiliations:

Modern Language Association

Fellowships/Honors:

Nominated for Golden Dozen Teaching Award for Distinguished Teaching at New York University, Spring 2002.

Selected Works:

Desembarcos en el papel: la imagen en la literatura de Julio Cortázar, Argentina, Beatriz Viterbo Editora, July, 2001.
Truisms and other works: Translation and editing of Jenny Holzer's LED "oeuvre". Translation of poetry for LED display, which appeared in the Guggenheim Bilbao opening exhibit.
Translator: Colección Thannhauser del Guggenheim Museum, translation of Guggenheim Museum: Thannhauser Collection. Foreword by Thomas Krens; Essays by Vivian Endicott Barnett, Fred Licht and Paul Tucker. © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1992. ISBN 0-89207-074-9 (clothbound) and 0-89207-075-7 (paperbound) Printed in Italy by Arti Grafiche Motta. [Translation ISBN numbers not available]
Member of the Editorial Board: Félix González-Torres. © 1995 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York Translation © 1995 Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela. ISBN 84-453-1547-1. Printed in Germany. Author: Nancy Spector. Translation from English: Babel, Mela Dávila. As the only Spanish speaker in the Editorial Board, I edited entire translation and provided missing translations, including translation of poem by Wallace Stevens, "The Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour." The text relied heavily on postmodern literary criticism.
Translator: El Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, translation of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. © 1995, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. ISBN 0-89207-151-6 and 0-89207-146-X (hardbound). Printed in Iceland.

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