KATHLEEN M. VERNON
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial Library N3022, (631) 632-9668

Since receiving her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago, Kathleen Vernon has worked in both her teaching and research to develop an interdisciplinary and broadly contextual approach to the study of modern Hispanic literature and culture. In her published work, as well as in her undergraduate and graduate courses, she has analyzed the role of different forms of cultural expression in the context of various periods of Spanish history (the Republic, the Spanish Civil War, Francoism, and the Post-Franco era), especially as related to questions of gender, ethnicity, and national identity. Over the last ten years, she has published widely on various aspects of Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present. Her current research projects involve the study of cross-national relations among the cinemas of Spain, Latin America, and the U.S. during the "Golden Age" of the 1930s and 1940s. Vernon is also an affiliated faculty member of Women's Studies and is currently Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center.