Francine Masiello Views
Francine Masiello is the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at UC Berkeley and teaches in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and that of Comparative Literature. She is twice winner of the Kovacs Prize, Modern Language Association, for Best Book on Latin American Culture for The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis (2001) and for Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina (1992). Her edited volumes include Dreams and Realities: Selected Fiction of Juana Manuela Gorriti (2003), Sarmiento, Author of a Nation (1994), and Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America (1990).