Kimberle S. López

Associate Professor of Latin American Literature

Ortega Hall 451
(505) 277-5907
E-mail: klopez@unm.edu

Research areas:

  • 20th century narrative
  • 19th century narrative

The Temptation of
Saint Anthony,
ca. 1512-1516
Matthias Grünewald
(1475-1528)
She specializes in 19th and 20th century narrative. She completed her Ph.D at the University of California at Berkeley with a dissertation entitled New World Rogues: Transculturation and Identity in the Latin American Picaresque Novel and has published articles on Latin American narrative in Colonial Latin American Review, Luso-Brazilian Review, Letras Femeninas, Chasqui and Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. She is the author of Latin American Novels of the Conquest: Reinventing the NewWorld(2002) which examines the ambivalent representation of Euro-American contact in a corpus of recent Latin American historical fictions that rewrite the chronicles of the conquest and colonization of the Americas.
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