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Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1968
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature, Afro-Hispanic Literature

Professor Mullen's research interests focus broadly on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature with special interest in theories of race, ethnicity, and canon formation. He has published on Octavio Paz, Jaime Torres Bodet, Carlos Pellicer, Simon Aguado, Juan Francisco Manzano, Fernando Ortiz, Manuel Ramos Otero, Reinaldo Arenas (among others) and on the influence of Langston Hughes in the Hispanic world and Haiti. He regularly teaches Introduction to Hispanic literature (231, 232), surveys of Spanish-American literature (332) and occasional seminars on Cuban literature and the Harlem Renaissance. His most recent books are Afro-Cuban Literature: Critical Junctures (1998) and The Harlem Group of Negro Writers by Melvin Tolson: An Edition (2001).He is currently preparing second editions of Langston Hughes in the Hispanic World and Haiti (1977) and The life and poems of a Cuban Slave (1981).

Edward Mullen

Contact:
211C Arts & Science Building
573-882-5041
mullene@missouri.edu

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El Cuento Hispanico
El Cuento Hispánico

The Harlem Group
The Harlem Group of Negro Writers

Afro-Cuban Literature book jacket
Afro-Cuban Literature: Critical Junctures

Romance Languages & Literatures
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