Judy Maloof

Associate Professor of Spanish

Ortega Hall 447
(505) 277-5514
E-mail: jmaloof@unm.edu

Research areas:

• Latin American and Chicana women writers
• Cultural studies
• Testimonial literature

I love teaching literature, language, and culture. My areas of specialization are contemporary Latin American narrative and culture. I have taught the Introduction to Literature classes (307), culture classes on Latin American film and the Caribbean (301), advanced survey classes (432), and courses on the Latin American Short Story (430),and Women Writers (439). At the graduate level, I teach courses on the literature of the Southern Cone, Central America, film, as well as courses on the Boom and Post-boom, and Feminist Theory. I feel a strong commitment to promoting and celebrating the rich Chicano and Mexicano heritage of this state and this region. I am honored to be able to teach in our department, which serves a diverse student body with many heritage language students, non-traditional older students, as well as other students interested in the Spanish language and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world.

My research interests include Latin American and Chicana women writers, cultural studies, and testimonial literature. I am the author of two books: Over Her Dead Body: The Construction of Male Subjectivity in Onetti(1995) and Voices of Resistance: Testimonies of Cuban and Chilean Women(1999). I am interested in studying the cultural impact of recent Mexican immigration to Barelas. I have also published many articles in academic journals on contemporary Latin American writers.