About the Author

Sophia A. McClennen studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Harvard University and received her Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Literature from Duke University. She works in comparative cultural studies with special emphasis on Latin America and has published on media culture, gender studies, and cultural theory. McClennen's interests and publications are in comparative cultural studies and Latin America, and she has published articles in journals such as Revista de estudios hispánicos, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Cultural Logic, Mediations, and CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. Recent books include The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time, Language, and Space in Hispanic Literatures and Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope.