Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Harvard University 1996
  • B.A., University of Puerto Rico 1986
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Chair of Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017 - 2020
  • Chair of the Department of Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2016
  • Academic Director in the Duke in Madrid Program, Global Education Office, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2015
  • Campus Director, Duke-in-Madrid Program in Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2011
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011
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  Academic Positions Outside Duke

  • Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley. 2005 - 2008
  • Assistant Professor, Stanford University. 1995 - 2005
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • MAY 22, 2018

    Romance Studies Celebrates Gift For First Endowed Professorship In French & Francophone Studies
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • South America (Continent) 
    • Spain (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • IPA - Luciana Fellin awarded by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 2019 - 2021
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Rosa, R. Finance and Literature in 19th Century Latin America, 2021.
    • Rosa, R. Los fantasmas de la razón: una lectura material de Hostos. San Juan and Santo Domingo: Editorial Isla Negra, 2003.

  • Academic Articles

    • Rosa, R. “Finance and Narrative in Spanish America during the Nineteenth Century.” Pmla, January 2012.
    • Rosa, R. “Finance and literature in nineteenth-century Spanish America.” Pmla 127, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 137–44. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2012.127.1.137.
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    • Rosa, R. “Literatura y econom�a en Puerto Rico: Siglo XIX.” Edited by Malena Rodr guez-Castro, Juan Gelp, and Marta Aponte-Alsina, 2012.
    • Rosa, R. “Crédito, propiedad y narración en la novela tropical de Zeno Gandía.” Edited by Graciela Batticuore and Alejandra Laera. Estudios: Revista De Investigaciones Literarias Y Culturales 15 (2007): 95–122.
    • Rosa, R. “"La Cosa hostosiana y la cosa de Hostos: ética, estética mercancía". En Homenaje a Hostos. Forjando el porvenir americano.” Exegesis 17 (2004): 191–95.
    • Rosa, R. “Acuñaciones: Angel Rama y las economías de la letra.” Edited by Alicia Ríos. Estudios: Revista De Investigaciones Literarias Y Culturales 10/11 (2003): 37–65.
    • Rosa, R. “"Business as Pleasure: Culture, Tourism and Nation in Puerto Rico in the 1930s".” Nepantla: Views From South 2 (2001): 449–88.
    • Rosa, R. “"Hostos en el mercado: una lectura de Mi viaje al sur".” Edited by Susana Roetker. Revista Iberoamericana LXIII (1997): 193–208.
    • Rosa, R. “"Puerto Rico a flote: desde Hostos hasta hoy" with Doris Sommer.” Edited by Arcadio Díaz Quiñones. Op. Cit. 9 (1997): 263–72.
    • Rosa, R. “Governing Tourism: representation, domination and freedom in Puerto Rico: 1949.” Global South 6 (n.d.).

  • Book Sections

    • Rosa, R. “"A seis grados de Andrés Bello: literatura y finanzas en los 1820s.” In Andrés Bello y Los Estudios Culturales. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
    • Rosa, R. “Concatenaciones secretas: tacitismo, política y literatura en Borges.” In Borges: Políticas de La Literatura. University of Pittsburgh, 2008.
    • Rosa, R. “A seis grados de Andrés Bello: literatura y finanzas en los 1820s.” In Itinerarios de La Palabra En La Cultura Venezolana, edited by Carlos Pacheco et al, 133–52. Caracas: Fundación Biggot, 2006., 2006.
    • Rosa, R., Doris Sommer, and in Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay. “"Teresa de la Parra: America’s Womanly Soul.".” In Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Doris Meyer, 115–24. Austin: Texas University Press, 1995.
    • Rosa, R. “Introduction to Teresa de la Parras’s "The Influence of Women in the Formation of America’s Soul".” In Spanish American 19th and 20th Century Women’s Essays., edited by Doris Meyer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • LIT 442S: Jorge Luis Borges and Literary Representation in the Contemporary World 2022
  • SPANISH 334: Introduction to Spanish-American Literature 2022
  • SPANISH 442S: Jorge Luis Borges and Literary Representation in the Contemporary World 2022
  • SPANISH 334: Introduction to Spanish-American Literature 2021
  • SPANISH 550S: Caribbean Literary Theory 2021
  • SPANISH 334: Introduction to Spanish-American Literature 2020
  • SPANISH 791: SPECIAL READINGS 2020
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Bloodwork: Class, Race and Convertibility in Latin America from 19th Century Novel to Alfonso Cuarón's Roma. Congress on the Global Middle Class. April 11, 2019  2019
  • "Subjects of Credit: Capital and Writing in Latin America, 1820s-1890s" . Imaginarios económicos en la literatura y el cine de España y Latinoamérica . Department of Languages and Literature. April 6, 2019  2019
  • Melancholic Tropics: Tourism, Advertising and Colonialism in Puerto Rico, USA, 1955-2009”. Department of Romance Languages. May 12, 2015  2015
  • Banking and Literature in 19th Century Latin America. Department of Hispanic and Portuguese Studies. April 10, 2015  2015
  • Inconvertible Subjects: Capital and Writing in Latin America, 1820-1890. ACLA Congress. March 12, 2014  2014
  • “Repúblicas de papel”: especulación y literatura en el siglo XIX. LASA. May 30, 2013  2013
  • Independece, Insurgency, Insolvency: Circuits of Debt in Manuel Payno's Mexico.. November 9, 2011  2011
  • Governing Tourism: Representation, Domination and Freedom in Puerto Rico: 1949". November 9, 2010  2010
  • Literatura y turismo en Puerto Rico en los 1980s: el cas de Rodriguez Juliá. June 13, 2009  2009
  • Of Swiss-watches and Slaves: Narrative and Political Economy in Cirilo Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. April 16, 2009  2009
  • Para llegar a Martineau Bay: turismo, estética y propiedad en Vieques. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. January 19, 2007  2007
  • Adulteraciones: Hostos y las economías de la letra. Latin American Studies Association. March 16, 2006  2006

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