Dr. Laura R. Loustau
Associate Professor of Spanish
Interim Spanish Co-Coordinator

Laura R. Loustau received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Spanish. She is originally from Argentina where she earned a degree in teaching English as a foreign language before moving to the United States. Her academic interests include Latin American literatures written in the United States as well as U.S. Latino/a literatures. She has published book reviews and articles in journals such as Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana, Lucero: A Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies and Ventana abierta: Revista Latina de literatura, arte y cultura. She has recently published a book titled, Cuerpos errantes: Literatura latina y latinoamericana en Estados Unidos (Buenos Aires, Argentina, Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2002) which explores notions of border, de(re)territorialization, nomadism and transculturation.

Courses Taught at Chapman:

• SPAN 101 - Elementary Spanish I
• SPAN 102 - Elementary Spanish II
• SPAN 201 - Intermediate Spanish I
• SPAN 202 - Intermediate Spanish II
• SPAN 326 - Reading & Interpreting Literature
• SPAN 343 - Advanced Grammar and Composition
• SPAN 344 - Spanish Writing Workshop
• SPAN 377 - Literature & Culture of Latin America I
• SPAN 378 - Literature & Culture of Latin America II
• SPAN 482/397 - United States Latino Cultural Studies
• SPAN 486/398 - 20th Century Latin American Fiction: Journeys Across Memory
• HUM 316 - From Latin America to Los Angeles: Culture & Ways of Life