Hortensia Calvo

Doris Stone Director - The Latin American Library

Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
Latin American Library
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Administrator
Core Faculty
Region
  • South America
Hortensia Calvo

Research

Spanish American literary Baroque, social history of early modern print culture

Degrees

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

Academic Experience

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

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

Overseas Experience

  • Colombia
  • Mexico

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-

Selected Publications

  • 2023. Cartas de Lysi: La mecenas de sor Juana en correspondencia inédita. Co-author with Beatriz Colombi. Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert. 2nd rev. edition.
  • 2023. “Un tesoro disponible: El libro latinoamericano en las bibliotecas académicas de EE.UU.” Tendencia Editorial, 35. Bogotá: Universidad del Rosario, 2023.. 3-7. https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/40797
  • 2022. “Nicaragua 2018: Ensayo fotográfico” Mesoamérica 59.
  • 2019. “Crescent City Connections to Latin America: A History of the Latin American Library at Tulane University.” With Guillermo Náñez Falcón. Latin American Librarianship in the Twenty-first Century: Libraries, Collaborations and New Approaches. Gayle W
  • 2018. “Unpublished Letters from Sor Juana’s Mentor, María Luisa Manrique de Lara y Gonzaga: Correspondence from The Latin American Library, Tulane University” SALALM LX Papers, New Orleans: SALALM.
  • 2016. “Latin America.” A Companion to the History of the Book. 2nd revised edition. Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose. Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Blackwell.
  • 2015. “Cartas de Lysi: La mecenas de sor Juana en correspondencia inédita.” Co-author with Beatriz Colombi. Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert; Mexico: Bonilla Editores.