Faculty

Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat,
Professor of Spanish

513S Callaway Center
404-727-7952
rgutier@emory.edu

Professor Gutiérrez-Mouat was born in Santiago, Chile and grew up in Santiago, Buenos Aires, and Lima, Peru. His family moved to the U.S. in 1968 following the rise to power of an anti-business military dictatorship in Peru which interrupted his American stepfather's import-export business. Over the course of the following decade, Professor Mouat received his B.A. from Duke University and his Ph.D. in modern Latin American literature from Princeton. At Princeton he met José Donoso and was inspired to write his dissertation on this Chilean writer, later published as José Donoso: impostura e impostación (Hispamérica). He has written a second book of critical essays on Chilean literature, El espacio de la crítica: estudios de literatura chilena moderna (Orígenes) as well as articles in journals such as the Revista Iberoamericana, Hispamerica, MLN, PMLA, Inti, and others. Professor Gutiérrez-Mouat has taught at Emory since 1977. His latest courses and research focus on literary representations of violence, issues of globalization, and the cultural discourses of post-dictatorship in the Southern Cone.