Dr. Laura Loustau

Dr. Laura Loustau

Associate Professor
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Department of World Languages and Cultures
Office Location: DeMille Hall 120 C
Office Hours: T-Th 12:45-2:30 and by appointment
Phone: (714) 744-7084
Scholarly Works:
Digital Commons
Education:
University of California, Santa Cruz, Bachelor of Arts
Escuela Nacional Normal Superior de Lenguas Vivas, Bachelor of Arts
University of California, Berkeley, Master of Arts
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.

Biography

Laura R. Loustau received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley and currently serves as an Associate 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 U.S.Latino/a/, Latinx, and Latin American poetry and narrative written in the United States, especially those topics related to techno-writing, visual arts and intergenerational literature. She has also done research on memory theories, transnationality, border matters, and human rights as she studies representations of violence and resistance in the literatures of the Américas. In her book, Cuerpos errantes: Literatura latina y latinoamericana en Estados Unidos (Buenos Aires, Argentina, Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2002) she explores topics in border studies, de(re)territorialization, nomadism and transculturation. Since 2011 she continues to collaborate as a coeditor of the section on contemporary Argentine narrative literature for the Handbook of Latin American Studies, a division of the Library of Congress.

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

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

Co-contributing editor, “Literature: Argentine Prose Fiction”, in Vol. 76, Handbook of Latin American Studies. Compiled by the Hispanic Division, Library of Congress. Austin: The University of Texas Press, (2022): 365-392.
Review of Sal de sangres en sangre by Alicia Kozameh. Confluencia. Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura, 37.2 (Spring 2022) 190-192.
“Un dolor ancestral. Fragmentos de vida y muerte en Sal de sangres en pánico de Alicia Kozameh”. Review of Sal de sangres en pánico by Alicia Kozameh. Confluencia. Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura, 37.1 (Fall 2021): 179-180.
“The poetry of Giannina Braschi: Art and Magic in Assault on Time” in Poets, Philosophers, Lovers. On the Writings of Giannina Braschi (Latinex and Latin American Profiles) edited by Frederick Aldama and Tess O’Dwyer. University of Pittsburgh Press, (2020): 91-99.
“Poesía, arte y diálogos transgeneracionales en Beasts Behave in Foreign Land de Ruth Irupé Sanabria” issue dedicated to “El legado de la poesía chilena y latinoamericana” Taller de letras, Núm. 65 (2019): 141-148.
Co-contributing editor, “Literature: Argentine Prose Fiction”, Handbook of Latin American Studies. Compiled by the Hispanic Division, Library of Congress. Austin: The University of Texas Press, Volume 73 (2018): 469-488.
Contributed twenty-two entries for the section of Literature: Argentine 20th century fiction, Handbook of Latin American Studies, Division of The Library of Congress. Austin: University of Texas Press 68 (2013): 432-434.
Co-authored with Claire Emile Martin and Maria Nelly Goswitz “Introduction” for Literature: Argentina, Handbook of Latin American Studies, Division of The Library of Congress. Austin: University of Texas Press Volume 68 (2013): 435-443
“Cultures of Surveillance in Contemporary Cuba: The Literary Voice of Yoani Sánchez.” The International Journal of Humanities 9.6 (2012) http://ijh.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.26/prod.2147
Contributed twenty nine book review entries for the section of Literature: Argentine 20th century fiction, Handbook of Latin American Studies, Division of The Library of Congress. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. 475-484.
“Tecnología y Literatura en La novela perfecta de Carmen Boullosa”. Espéculo. Revista de Estudios Literarios. 14/3/2011 http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero47/novperfe.html
“Poéticas del exilio y desexilio en la escritura de Alicia Partnoy y Reinaldo Arenas. Alba de América. 30. 57 y 58 (2011): 113-127.
Co-authored with Claire Emile Martin “Introduction” for Literature: Argentina, Handbook of Latin American Studies, Division of The Library of Congress. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. 473-474.
“Urgencias poéticas: vuelos solidarios y de resistencia en Volando bajito de Alicia Partnoy” Ed. Claire Emilie Martin, Cien años después. Literatura de mujeres en América Latina. El legado de Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera y Clorinda Matto de Turner. Lima, Perú, Universidad San Martín de Porres, 2010.

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