Laura Barberan Reinares Author of Evaluating Organization Development
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Laura Barberan Reinares

Professor of English and Literature
City University of New York (CUNY)

Laura Barberan Reinares is a Professor of English and Literature at Bronx CC CUNY. She has published an award-winning article on gender, globalization and trafficking as well as articles on postcolonial literature and pedagogy in several peer-reviewed journals. Her book, Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolaño, was published in 2014 and 2017. She is part of the Human Rights Hub faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Subjects: Anthropology - Soc Sci, Area Studies, Literature, Military & Security Studies, Sociology & Social Policy

Biography

Laura is a Professor of English and Literature at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). A native Argentinean, she holds the degree of "Profesora de Lengua Inglesa" from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, and a doctorate in Postcolonial/Transnational British and Anglophone Literatures and 20th-century Irish Literature from Georgia State University. Her research focuses on the intersections of postcolonial literature and theory and contemporary issues of exploitation in the form of human trafficking and (illegal) migration. Her book, Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolaño (2014 & 2017), analyzes postcolonial fiction addressing female sex trafficking within the context of globalization. She has also published articles on postcolonial literature and pedagogy in several peer-reviewed journals. Her article "Globalized Philomels: State Patriarchy, Transnational Capital, and the Femicides on the US-Mexican Border in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666" was awarded the 2012 South Atlantic Review Essay Prize in recognition of its outstanding scholarship. She also serves as an Advisory Board member for the non-profit organization Crossing Point Arts: Bringing the Arts to Survivors of Human Trafficking, and as has served as an Executive Committee member at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA). She is currently a Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRES) Faculty Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, and part of the the Relevant Faculty at the Human Rights Hub within the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.



Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

    Postcolonial literature and theory, gender studies, human trafficking, globalization studies, migration studies, contemporary British and Irish literature, Anglophone literature, Transnational literature, human rights, gender-based violence, "comfort women"

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