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Hortensia Calvo
Responsibilities
The Director of the Latin American Library oversees policy, budgets, operations, collections, acquisitions, fundraising, public relations, a visiting fellowship program, and the work of five permanent staff. She provides leadership and vision in developing programs and services related to Latin American Studies; maintains professional contacts appropriate to the mission of the department; and represents Tulane University in local, national and international forums related to Latin American libraries and librarianship.
Degrees & Professional Certifications
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Latin American Research Librarianship, Perkins Library, Duke University
Ph.D., Spanish, Yale University
M.A., Spanish and Spanish American Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Licenciatura, Philosophy, Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia)
Professional Affiliations
Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)
Professional Interests
Early modern Spanish American literature; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz; print culture and social history of the book in Latin America; area studies librarianship.