Katherine Anson, Ph.D.

Katherine AnsonVisiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
ansonk@wittenberg.edu
(937) 327-7062
Hollenbeck Hall 109

Katherine Anson holds a Ph.D. in Spanish from The University of Arizona in the field of nineteenth through twenty-first-century Latin American literatures and cultures. Her research concentrates on citizenship, popular culture, and literary urban studies. Anson’s work contributes to the critical conversation on narratives of identity by furthering research on how spatiality relates to political participation. She is currently working on a book manuscript that analyzes dominant spatial relations of power in Mexico and Colombia during the national consolidation period; and researching a second project that explores cultural resistance to gentrification in contemporary Bogotá and Mexico City.

Anson’s written work has been published in Divergencias and one of her articles is forthcoming in Hispanic Journal. She teaches language classes at all levels and undergraduate courses in the areas of Latin American literature and film, urban studies, and border studies. Recent courses include “Written Inequalities” and “Imagined Boundaries: A Critical Approach to Geographical Borders.” Before coming to Wittenberg, she was a lecturer in the University of Arizona’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and worked in a variety of social community projects in her home country of Colombia.

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