Jennifer Harford Vargas (PhD, Stanford University) researches
and teaches on Latina/o cultural
production, hemispheric American studies, race and ethnicity, theories of the
novel, decolonial imaginaries, narratives of undocumented migration, and testimonio forms in the Americas. She is currently writing a book manuscript on
Latina/o dictatorship novels. She is
also co-editing, along with José David Saldívar and Monica Hanna, an edited
collection of critical essays on the works of Junot Díaz.
Courses Taught
Balch Seminar: Borders
217: Narratives of Latinidad
237: The Dictator Novel in the Americas
276: Transnational American Literature
345: Theory of the Ethnic Novel