The Gendered Transformation of Work in Latin America, 1890-1910
Lee Skinner is associate professor of Spanish at CMC. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century Spanish American texts, both fictional and nonfictional, with a particular emphasis on questions of identity at the individual, community, regional, and national levels. She is the author of Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America, 1850-1910 (2016), which examines the ways in which discourses of and about modernity interacted with representations of gender in fictional and non-fictional texts alike and crafted new ways for women to gain power and agency in the public sphere. Skinner's Athenaeum talk will draw on this expertise.
Skinner has also published a book on the nineteenth-century historical novel, History Lessons: Refiguring the Nineteenth-Century Historical Novel in Spanish America (2006) and numerous articles examining nineteenth-century debates over national consolidation and identity through the lenses of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism, and cultural geography, to name but a few topics. Her writings have appeared in periodicals such as Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Symposium, Revista Iberoamericana, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Latin American Literary Review, among others. She teaches courses on Spanish language and Latin American literature and cultures, including “Gender in 19th Century Spanish America” and “Revolutions and Revolutionary Thinking in Spanish America”.
In addition to teaching at CMC, Skinner serves as an associate dean of faculty at the College. She holds a B.A. in comparative literature from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Spanish from Emory University. She was assistant and associate professor at the University of Kansas prior to coming to CMC in 2008.
Professor Skinner’s Athenaeum talk is part of the Gender and Sexuality Studies luncheon lecture series.