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Modern Language Association

Latin American Studies Association

Virgilio Piñera and the Formulation of a National Literature

Metamorphosis in two short stories of the fantastic by Virgilio Piñera  and Felisberto Hernandez

Don Quijote y Sancho en el Toboso

Ana Garcia Chichester is an expert on 20th-century Latin American literature, particularly literature of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. A native of Cuba, she has accompanied two UMW groups to Cuba before it opened to the United States. She also oversees the university's  Bachelor of Liberal Studies program

Latin American Literature

Spanish Culture

Race and Gender Studies

Liberal Studies

University of Mary Washington Directory

UMW professors find creative ways to teach through COVID-19

Professor of Spanish, Director of the Bachelor of Liberal Studies Program

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