Leila Lehnen

Assistant Professor of Portuguese & Spanish

Ortega Hall 407
(505) 277-3732
E-mail: llehnen@unm.edu

Research areas:

  • Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Literature
  • Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Spanish American Literature
  • Contemporary Brazilian and Spanish-American cultures, especially in relation to processes of nation (un) building and globalization

Painting
1946
Francis Bacon
(1909-1992)
Leila Lehnen received her Ph.D. in 2003 from Vanderbilt University and taught for two years as an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her primary research interests are in contemporary Brazilian and Spanish American literature and culture. She is especially interested in how culture reflects, comments and attempts to, at times, subvert dominant discourses such as historiography. In her classes, Professor Lehnen likes to motivate students to think critically about the hybrid processes that form and transform cultures as well as the effects culture has on how we engage with the world we live in.
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