Travel Narratives in Dialogue

The Author: Shannon Marie Butler received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University with a specialization in Latin American Literatures. She is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at Marshall University. Her expertise is Latin American literatures and cultures from the colonial period to the 1800s with a focus on travel literature produced in or about South America. Her secondary areas of specialization include gender and postcolonial studies with a special interest in Chicano/a literature. She is working on several pedagogical papers examining how certain learning disabilities affect second-language acquisition. Her current research interest involves examining the poetics of resistance in contemporary Latin American fiction and poetry.