Tulane University

Contact Info
hcalvo@tulane.edu

Degrees

• Licenciatura, Philosophy, Universidad de Los Andes, Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia, 1980
• M.A., Spanish and Spanish American Literature, University of Illinois, 1984
• Ph.D., Yale University, Spanish, 1990

Academic Experience

• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke University, 2002
• Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1990-1996

Research & Teaching Specializations: Spanish American literary Baroque, social history of colonial books/print culture

Related Experience

• Director, The Latin American Library, Tulane University, 2003-
• Librarian for Latin America and Iberia, Perkins Library, Duke University, 1999-2002
• Interim Ibero-American and Caribbean Studies Bibliographer, Perkins Library, Duke Unviersity, 1997-1999
• Board of Directors, Fundacion Amistad, 1999-

Distinctions

• Summer Research Grants, Princeton University, 1992, 1993, 1994
• Research Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 1988
• Edward A. and Samuel C. Suisman Fellowship, Yale University, 1986-1987

Languages: Spanish; French; Portuguese

Selected Publications

• 2003. “The Politics of Print: The Historiography of the Book in Early Spanish America.” Book History. 5.
• 2001. “The Luis Angel Arango Library.” In International Dictionary of Library Histories. Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn.
• 1997. “Communicating in the Library of Babel.” Duke University Libraries. 11 (1): 8-12.
• 1993. “El Carnero segun Juana Garcia: una manga afrofeminina de la historia colombiana.” Dispositio XVIII (44): 99-124.