Diane E. Marting

Diane E. Marting specializes in comparative Latin American literature from a feminist perspective. Women writers from Spanish America and Brazil feature largely among her writings, but she also has published on Boom novels and film. A professor at the University of Mississippi, Marting has held Fulbright fellowships to Brazil and Colombia, and a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to France. Her current projects include a book on Luisa Valenzuela and articles on Clarice Lispector. She was the Book Review Editor for Letras Femeninas, A Journal of Women and Gender Studies in Hispanic Literature and Culture (of the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica, now called the Association for the Study of Genders and Sexualities).