Jorge Olivares
Title
Allen Family Professor of Latin American Literature, Emeritus
Information
Address
4683 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853
Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan
M.A., University of Miami
B.A., University of Miami
Areas of Expertise
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Cuban Literature and Culture
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Twentieth-Century Spanish American Narrative
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Homosexuality in Cuba
- Spanish American Modernismo
Personal Information
Jorge Olivares, Allen Family Professor of Latin American Literature, Emeritus, taught at Colby College from 1982 to 2019. 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 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. His current research focuses on the works of Cuban trans writer Chely Lima (1957-2023). He now resides in San Francisco with his husband, the historian Marc Stein.