Ph.D. Yale University

M.A. Yale University

B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University

Charlotte Rogers received her Ph.D. in Spanish from Yale University.  Her area of specialty is twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin America, with an interdisciplinary focus on representations of the tropics in literature and culture.  Her first book, Jungle Fever: Exploring Madness and Medicine in Twentieth-Century Tropical Narratives was published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2012.  Professor Rogers has published articles on authors including Alejo Carpentier, Rómulo Gallegos, Álvaro Mutis, José Eustasio Rivera and Mario Vargas Llosa.  In 2014 she was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, and in 2015 Princeton University awarded her a Library Research Grant. She teaches courses on contemporary Latin American literature and culture.  Her current research and teaching interests include Cuba and Amazonia.  Before coming to UVA, Professor Rogers taught at Hamilton College and George Mason University.

Publications:

Book:

Jungle Fever: Exploring Madness and Medicine in Twentieth-Century Tropical Narratives. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012.

Articles:        

Forthcoming:

“Mario Vargas Llosa and the novela de la selva.” Forthcoming from the Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 2016.          

In print:

“‘La selva no tiene nada de inesperado:’ Amazonian Disillusionment in La Nieve del Almirante by Alvaro Mutis.” Orillas. 4 (2015). Online.

“Guillotina y fiesta en El siglo de las luces.” MLN. 128.2 (March 2013) 335-351.

“El órfico ensalmador: Ethnography and Shamanism in Alejo Carpentier’s Los pasos perdidos.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 35.2 (September 2011). 351-372.

“Carpentier, Collecting, and lo barroco americano.” Hispania. 94:2 (June 2011). 240-251.

“Medicine, Madness, and Writing in La vorágine.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool). 87.2 (January 2010): 89-108.

Published Interview:

“The Lost Cities of the Amazon: A Conversation with Milton Hatoum.” World Literature Today. September-October 2014. 34-37.

Authored Reviews:

“La mirada invernocular: clima y cultura en Colombia (1808-1924).” by Felipe Martínez-Pinzón.  Doctoral Dissertation, New York University, 2012.  Dissertation Reviews. Oct. 2013: http://dissertationreviews.org/

Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo F. Sarmiento, trans. Kathleen Ross. Review: Latin American Literature and Arts. Nov. 2004: 302-304.

Reviews of Jungle Fever:

Gómez, Leila. Modernism/ modernity. 20.1 (January 2013): 141-143.

Handley, George. Hispanic Review. (Winter 2014): 119-122.

Kaup, Mónica. MLN. 129. 2 (March 2014): 460-464.

Martínez-Pinzón, Felipe. E-misférica, Hemispheric Institute. 10.1 (Winter 2013). Online.

Moore, Charles. Hispania. 96. 4 (December 2013): 796-798.

Wylie, Lesley. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Vol 47. 2 (June 2014): 413-414.