Nancy Gray Díaz
Associate Professor

Department of Classical and Modern Language and Literatures
Rutgers University, Newark
175 University Avenue
416 Conklin Hall
Newark, NJ 07102
Email: ngdiaz@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Nancy Gray Díaz is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages at Rutgers University-Newark. She holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Rutgers, an MA in Comparative Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center and a BA from the University of Illinois in Russian. She is a scholar of 20th century Latin American narrative (including Spanish American, Brazilian, and, occasionally, French Caribbean). Her critical work focuses on representations of the subject in Latin American narratives. She is the author of The Radical Self: Metamorphosis to Animal Form in Modern Latin American Literature (1988) and articles, reviews and papers in the fields of Latin American and comparative literature. Her works have appeared in such journals as Comparative Literature Studies, Symposium, Hispanic Journal, and Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. She is currently working on a book on theories of the subject in postmodern and post-Boom Latin American narratives.

Professor Díaz teaches advanced undergraduate courses in Spanish American literature, such as The Latin American Short Story, The Spanish American Novel of the Post-Boom, Seminar on Magical Realism, U.S. Hispanic Literature, Contemporary Hispanic Poetry and Nineteenth Century Spanish American Literature. A former Acting Director of the Women’s Studies Program, Prof. Díaz has also taught courses on Latin American feminism in literature.

Born in Decatur, Illinois, Professor Díaz lived for a number of years in Colombia, South America, where she taught English. She has been a full-time faculty member at Rutgers since 1983 and is currently a resident of West Orange, New Jersey.