mavasquez@davidson.edu
Office:  Chambers 2287
Phone:  704-894-2503
Fax: 704-894-2782
Mailing Address: 
Box 7050, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 28035-7050

B.A., Florida State University
M.A., University of Washington
Ph.D., University of Washington

Mary S. Vásquez, Professor of Spanish, has been at Davidson College since 1996. She was born in Bronxville, New York and raised in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Her life has been greatly enriched by the experience of living in diverse regions of the United States and Spain: the Midwest, North and South Florida, the Pacific Northwest, the desert Southwest, the Southeast, and, in Spain, Extremadura, Alicante, and Madrid. In addition to the range of courses shared by all faculty members in Spanish, she offers classes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Spain, with a particular interest in the Spanish Civil War period, women writers, film, and the literature of exile, as well as in the intersections among society, culture, and literary expression. She also teaches classes in U.S. Latino literature and culture in English. In her research, which directly informs her teaching, she works in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Peninsular Spanish literature, culture, and film, and in Latino literature and culture in the United States, with the exile and female experiences as the points of intersection between the two. She is founding editor of the academic journal Letras Peninsulares, now published at Davidson College. 

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