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Maria Luisa Fischer

Associate Professor

Dr. Maria Luisa Fischer is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College.

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Education

  • 1992 - Boston University, PhD, Hispanic Language and Literature
  • 1985 - Universidad de Chile, Licenciatura en Literatura, General Literature

Books

  • Neruda: Construcción y legados de una figura cultural. Colección El Saber y la Cultura. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 2008. 232 pp. http://www.universitaria.cl/ntitulos.pl?id=365
  • Historia y texto poético: la poesía de Antonio Cisneros, José Emilio Pacheco y Enrique Lihn. Concepción, Chile: Latinoamericana Reunida, 1998. 204 pp.

Publications & Reviews

  • "Poesía política y políticas de la poesía en la obra de Nicanor Parra", Guaraguao. Revista de cultura latinoamericana (Barcelona) 45 (primavera 2014): 70-92.
  • "Sueños y visiones de la violencia política: Negroni, Bolaño, Gelman y Zurita". Revista de Estudios Filológicos 51 (2013): 7-15.
  • "'El Ojo Silva' de Roberto Bolaño, o la ética arraigada de un cosmopolita". Taller de Letras 53 (2013): 39-50.
  • "Los territorios de la poesía en Roberto Bolaño". Ciberletras 30 (July 2013). <http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v30/fischerml.html>
  • "Poéticas de la mirada en Frazadas del Estadio Nacional de Jorge Montealegre". Rivista Confluenze, (Bologna, Italia) 4.2 (2012): 288-296.
  • "Un Nobel para Chile: Neruda en la imaginación popular en 1971". Nerudiana 12 (2011): 17-18.
  • "¿Qué puede decir la poesía sobre la memoria de la violencia política?: Inri de Raúl Zurita", Anales de Literatura Chilena 13 (2010): 163-178.
  • "Navegaciones y anclajes del antinerudismo", Nerudiana 7 (2009): 30-32.
  • "Elicura Chihuailaf lee a Neruda: Todos los cantos/Ti kom vl", Hofstra Hispanic Review 10 (2009): 42-53.
  • "La memoria de la historia en Estrella distante de Roberto Bolaño”, Edmundo Paz Soldán and Gustavo Faverón Patriau eds. Bolaño salvaje, Barcelona: Candaya, 2008. 145-162.
  • trong> "Espacios de Pedro Lastra: la transformación de las lecturas", Silvia Nagy-Zekmi & Luis Correa Díaz eds. Arte de vivir: acercamientos críticos a la poesía de Pedro Lastra. RIL-Archivo del Escritor de La Biblioteca Nacional: Santiago, Chile, 2006. 159-172.
  • trong> "'Días de mi escritura, solar del extranjero': la poesía de viaje de Enrique Lihn", Francisca Noguerol ed. (Universidad de Salamanca) Contra el canto de la goma de borrar: asedios a Enrique Lihn (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla), 2005. 123-129.
  • "Siglo pasado de José Emilio Pacheco: Una ética de la palabra y el lector", Revista Confluencia 21 (2005): 156-162.
  • "El día más blanco o el país de la memoria de Raúl Zurita", Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal 17 (Berlin, Germany) (2005): 55-65.
  • "'Toda la historia pasó de mano en mano': elaboraciones de la historia colonial en Canto general de Neruda", Revista Hispánica Moderna 57 (2004): 137-146.
  • “Otro Neruda, fotográfico: autobiografías, disfraces, redefiniciones”, in a special centennial issue of Revista Sophia Austral 9 (Universidad de Magallanes, Chile) (2004): 82-87.
  • "Para leer la historia eclesiástica: el caso de la Histórica relación del reino de Chile (1646) del Padre Alonso de Ovalle", Taller de Letras 31 (2002): 33-43.

Book Reviews

  • Review of Si no fuera por la lluvia. Milton Rogovin en Chile (Diario, correspondencia, fotografías) by Carlos Trujillo. A Contracorriente. Revista de Historia Social y Literatura de América Latina 12.1 (2014): 365-369. <http://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/1274/2270>
  • Review of Cipango by Tomás Harris. Trans. by Daniel Shapiro. CiberLetras. A Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture 25 July 2011. < http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/>
  • Review of Asir la forma que se va. Nuevos asedios a Carlos Germán Belli by Miguel Ángel Zapata. UNMSM - Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. http://unmsmnoticiasfondoeditorial.blogspot.com/2008/10/notas-importantes.html
  • trong> Review of Octavio Paz. Viajero del presente by Roberto Hozven. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (St. Louis) 30.3 (1996): 506-7.
  • Review of Discursos sobre la 'invención' de América by Iris M. Zavala. 29.1 (1995): 194-196

Office Hours

Hunter West Building, Room: 1314
Mondays: 10:15AM – 11:15AM
Mondays and Thursdays: 2:30PM – 3:30PM

Contact Details

Maria Luisa Fischer

Romance Languages
68th Street West 1314
(212) 772-5146
maria.fischer@hunter.cuny.edu

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