Faculty

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Miles Rodríguez (Coordinator)

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2010; Postdoctoral Fellow in Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2010-12. Miles is Assistant Professor of LAIS and Historical Studies, at Bard since 2012-13. Miles’s research specialties are: the Mexican Revolution and modern Mexico; revolutionary movements in modern Latin America; class-based movements among working and country people in international and global perspective. His current research and book project reinterprets the Mexican Revolution by exploring the ways in which working people and popular classes fared during and after the Revolution, as they formed agrarian leagues, worker unions, and their own independent revolutionary movements. At Bard, Miles teaches Colonial Latin American since Conquest, Modern Latin America since Independence, Latin American Revolutions, Mexican & Mexican-American Histories & Cultures, and the Anthropology & History of Brazil & Mexico.

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Susan Aberth

Associate Professor of Latin American Art History with a particular focus on Surrealism.  Additional specialties are in African and Islamic Art.  The English edition of her book Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art was published by Lund Humphries of London in 2004 and the Spanish edition by Turner, Madrid the same year.  Currently she is working on the lesbian imagery of the Czech Surrealist Toyen, for which she received a Bard Research Grant during 2007-2009.  She has served as Treasurer for the Queer Caucus for Art of the College Art Association for 8 years. Her other scholarly interests are the art and iconography of Freemasonry, Spiritualism, and the Occult.

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Nicole Caso

A.B., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Areas of specialty: Hispanic languages and literature, Latin American literature. Author of Practicing Memory in Central American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan 2010). Work published in scholarly journals such as Revista Iberoamericana and Istmo: Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos; contributions to critical compilations analyzing various novelists such as Manlio Argueta and Rosa Marí­a Britton. Research interests include: 19th and 20th century narrative of Latin America; Central American literature; subaltern studies; memory and literature; the cultural production of collective identities; the limits of representation through writing; literature and Human Rights; ethics and representation; theories of space and place. Teaching interests include: Spanish for Heritage Speakers; Latin American testimonio; the city in Latin American fiction; literature of Human Rights in Latin America; historical fiction; crafting Mayan identities.

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Melanie Nicholson

B.A., Arizona State University; M.A., M.F.A., University of Arizona; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Translations and poems in American Poetry Review, Yale Review, Contemporary Women Authors of Latin America, Mundus Artium, Puerto del Sol, and Translation Review. Scholarly publications: Surrealism in Latin American Literature: Searching for Breton’s Ghost (2013); Evil, Madness, and the Occult in Argentine Poetry (2002); articles and reviews in Latin American Writers, Latin American Literary Review, Letras Femeninas, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature, and Social Text. Prof. Nicholson is currently working on a book-length study of the bestiary in Latin American literature. Teaching interests include: surrealism, Latin American poetry, twentieth-century Latin American narrative, literature of the Conquest, translation studies, and Latino immigration.