
Mary Louise Pratt
Professor Emerita
Education
- 1975 Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Stanford
- 1971 M.A. in Linguistics, University of Illinois (Urbana)
- 1970 B.A. in Modern Languages and Literature, Toronto
Critical Passions: Collected Essays of Jean Franco, co-edited with Kathleen Newman. Duke UP. 1999.
Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Routledge. 1992 (reprinted 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000; 2nd edition revised and expanded, 2007).
“Los imaginarios planetarios,”in Mabel Morana and Maria Rosa Williams eds., Los saltos de Minerva: Intelectuales, género y estado en América Latina, Berlin: Vervuert, 2005
“Planetary Longings” in Poethics of Globalisation, eds. Mary Gallagher et al., Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 2008
“Why the Virgin of Zapopan Went to Los Angeles” in Images of power: iconography, culture and state in Latin America, edited by Jens Andermann and William Rowe. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005.
“The Traffic in Meaning: Translation, Contagion, Infiltration” in Profession, Fall 2002.
“Modernity and Periphery: Towards a Global and Relational Analysis” in Beyond Dichotomies, ed. Elizabeth Mudimbe-Boyi. SUNY UP. 2002.
“I, Rigoberta Menchú and the Culture Wars” in The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy, ed. Arturo Arias. Minnesota UP. 2001.
“La modernidad desde las Américas” in América Latina: Agendas culturales para el nuevo siglo, special issue of Revista Iberoamericana. Oct-Dec 2000.
“Apocalypse in the Andes: Contact Zones and the Struggles for Interpretive Power” in Americas. July 1999.