Dr. Mary Lusky Friedman

Associate Professor of Spanish

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Office: Greene 537

Phone: (336) 758-5429

E-mail: friedman@wfu.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1977
• M.A. English, Columbia University, 1973
• B.A., English and Spanish, Wellesley College, 1971

Research Interests

• Contemporary Spanish American fiction

Courses Taught

• Spanish 218: Literary and Cultural Studies of Spanish America
• Spanish 354: The Social Canvas of Gabriel García Márquez and Pablo Neruda
• Spanish 364: Spanish-American Short Story
• Spanish 365: Spanish-American Novel
• First Year Seminar100: The Writings of Gabriel García Márquez

Departmental Activities

• Intensive Summer Language Institute in Querétaro, Mexico

Representative Publications

• The Self in the Narratives of José Donoso (Chile 1924-1996) , Edwin Mellen Press, 2004
• “The Corpses in the Corpus: Dead Bodies in the Work of García Márquez,” Romance Notes, 2000
• “The Genesis of La desesperanza by José Donoso,” Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 1999
• “La presencia de Chiloé en La desesperanza de José Donoso,” Anthropos, 1999
• The Emperor’s Kites: A Morphology of Borges’ Tales , Duke University Press, 1987