Richard Rosa, Associate Professor of Romance Studies

Please note: Richard has left the "Latino/a Studies Certificate" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	205 Language Center, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3100
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• SPANISH 442S.01, BORGES Synopsis

  Languages 207, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

  (also cross-listed as LIT 442S.01)

• SPANISH 334.01, INTRO SPAN-AMER LIT: 16-18 C Synopsis

  Languages 305, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• SPANISH 590S.02, SEM SPANISH LIT (TOPICS) Synopsis

  Languages 211, Tu 03:20 PM-05:50 PM

Office Hours:

Appointments Made Through Karen Pochala-Peck at kp125@duke.edu

Education:

Ph.D.	Harvard University	1996
MA	Harvard University	1992
B.A.	University of Puerto Rico	1986
MA	University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus

Specialties:

Spanish
Modern and Contemporary
Latin-American Studies
Caribbean Studies
European Studies
Historicism
Comparative Studies: Translation, Travel Narratives, Trans-Culturality
Theories of Value and the Economics of Literature
Theory of the Novel

Research Interests: 19th-21st Centuries Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Carmen B. Llenín-Figueroa  
• Isabel Rios-Torres  
• León Salvatierra  
• Carmen B. Llenín-Figueroa  
• Lucia T. Reinaga  
• Erin N Laureano  
• Jessica Jones  
• Isabel Rios-Torres  
• Erin N Laureano  
• Jeannette Acevedo-Rivera  
• Sonia Barrios-Tinoco  
• Lucia T. Reinaga  
• Marisol Negrón  
• Ericka Beckman  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Rosa, R, Finance and Literature in 19th Century Latin America (June, 2021)
2. R. Rosa, Tourism, Nation and Colonialism in Puerto Rico (In preparation)
3. R. Rosa, El ensayo clásico en Puerto Rico (In preparation)
4. Rosa, R, Governing Tourism: representation, domination and freedom in Puerto Rico: 1949, Global South, vol. 6 no. 1 (Spring 2012)
5. R. Rosa, Finance and Literature in 19th Century Latin America (2013), Under Contract: University of Pittsburgh Press