Colby College
4000 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901
P: 207-859-4000
 
Jorge Olivares
Allen Family Professor of Latin American Literature
Spanish



Phone: 207-859-4683
Fax: 859-4405
Email:

Mailing Address:
4683 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8846

Semester Schedule
Education


Ph.D., University of Michigan
M.A., University of Miami
B.A., University of Miami

Areas of Expertise:
  • Reinaldo Arenas
  • Homosexuality in Cuba
  • Cuban Literature and Culture
  • Twentieth-Century Spanish American Narrative
  • Spanish American Modernismo
Professional Information

Jorge Olivares, the Allen Family Professor of Latin American Literature, has been teaching at Colby College since 1982. In addition to all levels of Spanish language classes, he teaches Spanish American literature. He is the author of Becoming Reinaldo Arenas: Family, Sexuality, and the Cuban Revolution (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013), La novela decadente en Venezuela (Caracas: Armitano, 1984), and of articles in Colby Quarterly, Contemporary Literature, Hispanic Review, Hispanofila, MLN, Nueva Revista de Filologia Hispanica, PMLA, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Revista Hispanica Moderna, Romance Notes, and Symposium.