Suzanne Jill Levine
Professor, Spanish & Portuguese Department
sjlevine@spanport.ucsb.edu
Bio:
(Ph.D. New York University, 1977)
Latin American literature;
twentieth century fiction; literary translation and
theory; comparative
literary studies. Author of El espejo hablado: un estudio
de Cien
años de soledad (Caracas: Monte Avila, 1975), Guía de Bioy Casares
(Madrid: Fundamentos, 1982), The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin
American Fiction (St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1991); Manuel Puig and
the
Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions (New York: Farrar, Straus
& Giroux;
London: Faber & Faber, 2000), as well as numerous
articles, chapters,
interviews , reviews and creative translations of major
Latin American and
Hispanic writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy
Casares, Guillermo
Cabrera Infante, Julio Cortazar, Jose Donoso, Carlos
Fuentes, Silvina Ocampo,
Alejandra Pizarnik, Julian Rios and Severo Sarduy.
Her honors include a
Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), the PEN American Award
for Career
Achievement in Hispanic Studies (1996); several grants and
fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts and from the National
Endowment for the
Humanities.
Latest Publications:
Manuel Puig
and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions (Farrar Straus Giroux; &
Faber & Faber, 2000) [order] Read
the first chapter
Manuel Puig
and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions - paperback edition: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2157.htm;
Manuel Puig y la mujer arana: su vida y ficciones (SEIX BARRAL: Los Tres Mundos /biografia,
2002)
The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction [order]
Reviews
A
list of reviews published on the Internet.
Literary Review of Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and
Fictions:
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Syllabi
Fall 2000
Spanish
294A-B: Seminar on Argentine Literature
Winter 2001
Comp
Lit 34
Spanish 294B