Ana Mendez-Oliver
Ana L. Méndez-Oliver joins the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics as an Assistant Professor of Spanish literature and culture in the fall 2019. At Syracuse University, Méndez-Oliver will be teaching Latin American and Iberian literatures, including courses on Medieval and early modern Transatlantic literature. Méndez-Oliver’s research examines the process of identification and racialization present in texts and images of those inhabitants in the Iberian Peninsula and in the New World that were conceived and considered frontier or liminal identities (Jewish, Muslim, converso or Jewish converts, and morisco or Spanish Muslim converts, and the indigenous populations) at the eve of Spain’s national hegemonic project, and its later imperial endeavors. She is also interested in the representation of women and gender in the Mediterranean and the Transatlantic world in early modernity, and Translation Studies.
