Department of Romance Studies
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Email: borinsky@bu.edu
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Phone: 353-6226
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Professor Borinsky is on sabatical Fall 2009

Alicia Borinsky

Professor of Spanish

Education

  • MA, University of Pittsburgh
  • PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Research

Professor Borinsky is a literary scholar, fiction writer, and poet and has published in Spanish and English in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Her publications include Mean Woman (1993); La Pareja Desmontable (1994); Madres Aquiladas (1997); and Cine Continuado (1997).

She has held visiting professorships at Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis. She won the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching (1985), the Latino Literature Prize for Fiction (1996) and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2002). She is a member of the Boston University-Chelsea Management Team and directs the Writing in the Americas Program.

 
   
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