Lisa Burner

Associate Professor of Spanish

B.A., Colby College; Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

lrburner@sewanee.edu

Dr. Burner specializes in 19^th and 20^th century Latin American cultural production, with a focus on Peru and Chile. Her research and teaching work at the intersection of literature, natural resource extraction, feminism, indigeneity, economics, and labor. Dr. Burner’s upper-level courses include Latin American Literature and the Environment, Indigeneity and Race in Peru, and Women’s Voices in Latin America.

 

 Publications

“Guano and Nitrates.” Latin American Literature in Transition, 1870-1930. Edited by Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

 

“De Jotabeche a Germán Marín: Narrativas de la minería sostenible, la agricultura extractivista, y el agua en el desierto del Norte Chico chileno” [“From Jotabeche to Germán Marín: Narratives of sustainable mining, extractivist agriculture, and water in the desert of the Chilean Norte Chico.”] Anales de Literatura Chilena. vol. 19, no. 30, 2018, pp. 183-193.

 

“Tales of Incan Gold in an Era of Guano: Juana Manuela Gorriti’s Precious Metal Melodramas.” Hispanic Review. vol 86, no. 3, 2018, pp. 353-376.

 

 “Spinning Wool into Silver: Romancing Investment and the Wool Export Boom in Aves sin nido.” Siglo Diecinueve (Literatura Hispánica). vol. 21, 2015, pp. 99-121.