Campus Directory
Olga Vilella
| Title: | Adjunct Faculty |
| Office: | Warde Academic Center |
| Phone: | 773-298-3274 |
| Email: | vilella@sxu.edu |
| Department: | Honors Program |
Courses Taught
- SPAN 317: The Narrative and Spectacle of the Mexican Revolution
- SPAN 217: Women in Mexican Culture
- LS 10: Introduction to Latino Studies
- SPAN 334: Film and Literature
- SPAN 391: Selected Topics in Hispanic Literatures: Theater and Culture
- SPAN 314: Imaginary Caribbean: Literature of Cuba and Puerto Rico
Presentations
"A toda máquina: los avatares de la modernidad caribeña decimonónica en las páginas de La Revista Blanca de Puerto Rico (1896-1898; 1917-1934)." Presented at the XXI International Conference of Hispanic Literatures in Quito, Ecuador, March 7-9, 2018.
"Mas allá de la bomba, el baquiné y el café: modernidad caribeña en La Revista Blanca de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico (1896-1898; 1917-1934)." Presented at the XX International Conference of Hispanic Literatures in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 8-11, 2017.
"Ver y entenderse lo que se ve: Imágenes y lectores de principios del siglo XX puertorriqueño." Presented, by invitation, at the "Coleccionismo en la literatura y cultura latinoamericana" colloquium at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, March 20-21, 2016.
"Esperando a Junot: los maravillosos juegos lingüísticos de Tomás Rivera y Pedro Juan Soto, escritores latinos." Presented at the XV International Conference of Hispanic Literatures in Antigua, Guatemala, March 4-9, 2015.
"Don Cirilo, ciclista y mártir o los avatares de la modernidad caribeña decimonónica." Presented at the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., May 15-19, 2013.
Publications
Historical Dictionary of the "Dirty Wars": Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone, 1973-1990. 3rd. edition. Lanham, (MD): Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Co-authored with David Kohut.
"Of Bayaderas, Congaïs, and Fumerías: 'Virtual' Collecting in De Marsella á Tokio: Sensaciones de Egipto, la India, la China y el Japón by Enrique Gómez Carrillo," in Collecting From the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American Context, Ed. by María Mercedes Andrade, Ph.D., Bucknell University Press, April 2016.