Professor Maria Claudia Andre
Associate Professor of Spanish

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Education

• A.B. Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, 1982
• Ph.D. SUNY Albany, 1995

Brief Biography

María Claudia André (Claudine) is a Professor of Hispanic American Literature and Latin American studies at Hope College, Holland, Michigan. She holds a B.A. in Translation and Interpretation from the Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and a Ph.D. in Latin American and Spanish literature from the SUNY Albany, NY (1995). She has presented papers at national and international conferences and published articles in several literary journals. She is the editor Chicanas and Latin American Women Writers: Exploring the Realm of the Kitchen as a Self-Empowering Site (Edwin Mellen Press, 2001), Antología de Escritoras Argentinas Contemporáneas (Editorial Biblos, Buenos Aires), co-editor of Entre mujeres: colaboraciones, influencias e intertextualidades en la literatura y el arte latinoamericano (Red internacional del libro, Santiago de Chile, 2004), and editor of Iconos femeninos latinos e hispanoamericanos. (Floricanto Press, 2006), editor and translator of Seven Plays by Argentine Playwright Susana Torres Molina (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007) and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Latin American Women Writers (Routledge, 2008).

Personal comment: I always loved to sing. As a child, I would sing opera in the children's choir of the Colon Theatre. Years later, I had my own folk rock band "Natural" and we sang in pubs in Buenos Aires.

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