Alicia Borinsky
 Fellow of the University Professors; Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.
Professor Borinsky is a literary scholar, fiction writer, and poet. She has published extensively in Spanish and in English in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. She has received several awards, among them the Latino Literature Prize for Fiction in 1996 and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Among her books are, Theoretical Fables: The Pedagogical Dream in Contemporary Latin American Fiction ; the novels Mean Woman , All Night Movie and Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer , the collections of poems, La pareja desmontable,, Madres alquiladas , La ventrílocua, Mujeres tímidas, Las ciudades perdidas van al paraíso, Golpes bajos. Her work has been translated, anthologized, and published in The Massachusetts Review, Confluencia, American Voice, Under the Pomegranate Tree, New American Writing, Tameme, and Beacons, among others. Professor Borinsky has held visiting professorships at Harvard University and Washington University, St. Louis, and received the Boston University Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1985. She is a member of the Boston University-Chelsea Management Team and director of the Writing in the Americas Program at Boston University.
Office Hours: By Appointment - Contact: borinsky@bu.edu
Telephone: 617-353-6226
Email: borinsky@bu.edu
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