Women In Academia Report :: The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture

The Spectacular City, Mexico,
and Colonial Hispanic
Literary Culture
By Stephanie Merrim
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Stephanie Merrim, the Royce Family Professor of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies at Brown University, was announced as the recipient of the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize from the Modern Language Association of America. She will accept the award at the MLA’s annual convention in Seattle in January. She is being honored for her book The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture (University of Texas Press).

Professor Merrim has been on the Brown University faculty since 1981. She is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a Ph.D. from Yale University.

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