University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Department of Modern Languages 

Leslie Bary

My Office:
443 Griffin Hall | 337.482.6814 | lbary@louisiana.edu

Office Hours Fall 2009: MWF 9-10 and by appointment.
Department Office: 453 Griffin Hall | 337.482.6811 | fax 337.482.5446

Paper Mail:
P.O. Box 43331 | University of Louisiana | Lafayette, LA  70504
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Major in Spanish
Minor in Latin American Studies
Spanish and Latin American Network
Research Links for Spanish and Latin American Studies

Courses 2009-2010

Fall
Spanish 492G (cross listed with Foreign Literature 433G, Honors 385, and Humanities 400G): Bodies Electric: Avant-Garde Poetics | Spanish 203: Cultural Readings | Spanish 201: Intermediate Spanish II

Spring
Spanish 442Modern Latin American Literature: Jungle Books | Spanish 340: Introduction to Literary Genres | Spanish 203: Cultural Readings

*See me if you wish to propose a service learning project to be undertaken as Spanish 402 (3 hours of credit) in Fall, Spring, or Summer.

Research

I work in modern Latin American literature, Comparative Literature, and literary theory. Current and upcoming projects include Latin American Modernisms and the Difference Race Makes, a book manuscript in progress, and a digital project on the César Vallejo literary corpus. Papers available on line include Dresman, Sepúlveda, y el sentido Benjaminiano de la traducción, in Letras S5 (Chile, 2008).

Background

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley
Study abroad at Liceo Serrano (Spain), Nordby Realskole (Denmark), University of Barcelona, Federal University of Bahia, and University of São Paulo
Work abroad at Librairie Gallimard
Research and fieldwork primarily in Lima and Trujillo (Peru), Salvador and São Paulo (Brazil)

Languages

Speak: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Danish
Read: Catalan, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian (bokmål)

Out of School

Arts, outdoors, urban life.

Adventures

December/January 2010: Spend the winter break reading and writing in Salvador, Bahia.



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Content last revised 27 September 2009