Feal named editor of Latin-American journal

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

Rosemary G. Feal, professor of Spanish and director of graduate studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed to a three-year term as senior editor of the Latin American Literary Review, one of the leading journals in the field.

The review has published scholarly essays and book reviews on the literatures of Spanish America and Brazil since 1972.

Feal (pronounced fail) also has been named co-editor of Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture, the SUNY Press series edited by Jorge J.E. Gracia, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen Chair in the Department of Philosophy in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.

A Buffalo native, Feal received a doctorate in Spanish from UB in 1984 and was a member of the faculty of the University of Rochester from 1986 until joining the UB faculty in January, 1999.

She specializes in Caribbean and Spanish-American literature, including Afro-Hispanic studies and feminist criticism. An upcoming book, "Erotica en Espanol: Women Writing Sex Beyond Borders," examines the recent rise of erotic literature written by female authors from Spain and Latin America.

In 1995, SUNY Press published her critically esteemed "Painting on the Page: Interartistic Approaches to the Modern Hispanic Texts," co-authored by Carlos Feal, UB professor of Spanish. The book employs psychoanalysis, feminism, philosophy and semiotics to examine late 19th- and 20th-century Spanish and Spanish-American literature in relation to painting, and to larger questions of art theory and literary history.

Deborah L. Madsen's recent book, "Postcolonial Literatures: Expanding the Canon" (London and Stirling VA: Pluto Press, 1999) includes a chapter by Feal titled "Afro-Hispanic Literature and Feminist Theories: Thinking Ethics."

She also is the author of "Novel Lives: The Fictional Autobiographies of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Mario Vargas Llosa" (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 1986).

Feal was awarded a resident fellowship at the Humanities Institute at SUNY-Stony Brook in 1997 and in 1998 was appointed to a three-year term on the Modern Language Association's (MLA) Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession.

The MLA committee addresses such issues as academic leadership, salary equity, work and child care, sexual harassment, career patterns for women and the status of women of color in the field. To this committee, she applied her scholarly and teaching interests in gender studies and lesbian studies as they relate to Latin America, the Caribbean and the United St