Associate Professor of Spanish & Women's Studies
Coordinator Women's Studies
127 Hawthorn
Pennsylania State University Altoona College
Altoona, PA 16601
(814) 949-5245
rxc19@psu.edu
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Dr. Roselyn Costantino Associate Professor of Spanish & Women's Studies Coordinator Women's Studies 127 Hawthorn
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Dr. Roselyn Costantino received her M.A. from Montclair State University (1988) in Spanish Pennisular Literature with a focus on 19th-century Spanish and Latin American narrative, and her Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 1992 in Spanish with specialization in Latin American theatre and narrative and Latin American Studies (Economics, History, Political Science, Women's Studies). Her areas of specialization include Latin American Writers, Playwrights, and Performance Artists; Latin American and Latina Women; Performance Studies; Cultural Studies; Feminist Theory; Latino and Latin American Studies. Her most recent publications include Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform (co-edited with Diana Taylor. Duke UP, 2003); “Politics and Culture in a Diva´s Diversion”; “Youth Movements in Mexico: Indigenous Youth of the Zapatista Rebellion”; and "Preserving the American Way of Life." She is completing a manuscript, Inconvenient Women: Mexican Women's Performance, Identity, and Cultural Politics, and developing a project exploring the high number of disappearance, torture and murder of Guatemalan women and the implications of CAFTA in this extreme violence. She is a member of the University Graduate faculty and Altoona College Integrative Arts faculty. She teaches graduate-level courses in her areas of specialization at the University Park campus. |
