Román de la Campa Professor Hispanic Languages and Literature N3015 Melville Library Stony Brook, NY 11793-3371 rvdelacampa@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Román de la Campa is Professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Comparative Literature. He has written and edited books on theater, literary theory, cultural studies, and testimonio. His essays have appeared in more than twenty journals in Latin America, the United States, and Europe. His current research looks at the ways in which theoretical discourses shape fields of study, particularly Latin Americanism in its various contemporary modes: postmodern, feminist, postcolonial, and subaltern. It attempts to gain a careful appreciation of the possibilities as well as the contradictions implicit to these approaches. His work also is invested in the advent of a new comparative field comprised of the links between Latin American, American, and Latino literatures as well as other cultural practices. He chairs the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature as well as the New American Studies Program at the University at Stony Brook.