Faculty

Dierdra Reber,
Assistant Professor in Spanish

509N Callaway Center
404-727-6233
dreber@emory.edu

Dierdra Reber received her PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, the same year she joined the Emory faculty. Her current book project studies the representation of affect in the Latin American cultural production of globalization as a contestation of "imperialist" neoliberal culture. In particular, this study considers cases where money is transformed by love into affective capital, creating a vision of an "economy" of social equity that undoes the capitalist economy of exploitative social stratification. Reber's future research will focus on the neocolonial status of post-Independence Latin America, examining independence discourse, the theme of the Other in Vanguard literature, New Latin American Cinema, literary production of dictatorship and exile, and cultural production of globalization, all in relationship to the theoretical axes of postcolonial studies. Other research and teaching interests include Latin American film and Revolutionary Cuba, and the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation in the production of subjectivity and the constructions of social legitimacy and power. Reber has published translation work in PMLA and articles in Revista Iberoamericana and MLN. Currently Reber serves on the Faculty Council and University Senate; in 2007-2008, she will also assume duties as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.