FACULTY OF HUMANITIES

Department of Comparative Literature

Address: Box 23342, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3342

Telephone: (787) 764-0000, ext. 2493

E-mail: complit@uprrp.edu

Web address: http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/literatura_comparada

DEGREE OFFERED

MA in Comparative Literature

FACULTY

Ana H. Fernández-Sein, PhD, Harvard University, 1986, Professor.
Galdós and the modern novel; gothic novel; eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century fiction.

Susan Homar, PhD, New York University, 1982, Professor.
Caribbean literature; narratology; postmodern novel; history and theory of dance; dance and technology.

Marian E. Polhill, PhD, Cornell University, 2002, Associate Professor.
Cultural studies; Medieval and Renaissance poetry and narrative; pre-modern literatures; Germanic literatures; scientific discourses; gender studies.

Carmen Rita Rabell-Reyes, PhD, State University of New York, 1990; PhD, Columbia University, 2000, Professor.
Renaissance and baroque literature and drama; literature and legal discourse; literary theory; Renaissance and medieval narrative.

Rubén Ríos-Ávila, PhD, Cornell University,1983, Professor.
Literary theory; contemporary poetry; Lacanian theory; literature and film; contemporary Spanish American and Puerto Rican literature.

María Elena Rodríguez-Castro, PhD, Princeton University, 1988, Professor.
Cultural studies; Spanish Caribbean literature; literary theory; postcolonial literature and theory.

ASSOCIATED FACULTY

Isabel Huyke, Doctorate, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1988, Professor, Department of Foreign Languages.
Classical and medieval poetry and narrative; Latin, Greek.

Luce López-Baralt, PhD, Harvard University, 1974, Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies.
Spanish Golden Age literature; comparative mystical studies; Hispano-Arab and Hispano-Moorish literatures.

Mara Negrón, Doctorate, Université de Paris VIII, 1990, Professor, Department of Humanities, College of General Studies.
Contemporary French and European literature; deconstruction; women’s studies; psychoanalysis; translation; theater.

Ada M. Vilar-de-Kerkhoff, DML, Middlebury Graduate Language Schools, 1979, Professor, Department of Foreign Languages.
Literary theory; semiotics; narratology; poststructuralist theory; French literature, language, and composition; academic computing and technology.

MASTERS PROGRAM

Requirements for Admission

Applicants must fulfill all the general requirements for admission to graduate studies at the Río Piedras Campus. They must also fulfill the following requirements:

Requirements for Graduation

Candidates for the master’s degree must meet all the Río Piedras Campus’s requirements for graduation and complete the following credits:

In addition, students are required to have acquired a reading knowledge of a third language, to pass a written comprehensive examination, and to orally present and defend a thesis before an Examination Committee composed of the thesis advisor and two readers.

Program of Study

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