PhD Candidate, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Penn State University Park
mem535@psu.edu
Michelle McGowan is a doctoral candidate at Penn State University where she has taught various levels of language and literature courses. Her research focuses on post-dictatorial literature produced in Chile and Spain between 2000 and the present. Michelle’s dissertation project is a transatlantic study of recent Chilean and Spanish fiction about how fictional representations of bodies illuminate complicity and complacency with respect to state violence. Her article, “The House that Diaspora Built: Enacted Environments in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” will appear in a forthcoming issue of Voces del Caribe: Revista de Estudios Caribeños.