Thomas Anderson

Associate Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Undergraduate Coordinator for the Program in Iberian and Latin American Studies

Degrees

B.A., Bowdoin College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Research Profile

Professor Anderson is a specialist in the Literature and history of the Hispanic Caribbean. He is a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies and of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. From the latter Anderson received a Faculty Residential Fellowship for the academic year 2001-2002, which facilitated his research for his first book, Everything in Its Place: The Life and Works of Virgilio Piñera (Bucknell, 2006). Anderson has published articles in Virgilio Piñera: La memoria del cuerpo (San Juan: Plaza Mayor, 2000) and in a number of scholarly journals including Hispanófila, Revista Interamericana, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (San Juan), Latin American Theatre Review, and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (St. Louis), among others. Professor Anderson is presently working on his second book, Carnival, Comparsas, and National Identity in Cuban Poetry, 1916-1961, for which he has received an advanced contract from the University Press of Florida.

Contact Information

126 Decio Faculty Hall
631-8448
Thomas.F.Anderson.121@nd.edu