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Conn, Robert T.


Associate Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures
Romance Languages and Literatures Department
860.685.3109
300 High Street 204

Associate Professor, Latin American Studies
Latin American Studies Program
860.685.3109

Director, Center for the Americas
Center for the Americas
860.685.3109

BA Dartmouth College
PHD Princeton University
EMAIL:
rconn@wesleyan.edu
WESLEYAN PO BOX:
 Romance Languages and Literatures Department
COURSES TAUGHT THIS SEMESTER:
SPAN226 - 01
SPAN288 - 01
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Robert Conn specializes in the study of some of Latin America's leading intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In his book - The Politics of Philology: Alfonso Reyes and the Invention of the Latin American Literary Tradition (2002, Bucknell University Press) - he examines the manner in which one of Mexico's most important writers and scholars of the past century turns to literature and philosophy to create intellectual community across the Hispanic and Latin American world.
OFFICE HOURS:
Mondays and Wednesdays, 2-3.