Kristin Pitt

Kristin Pitt is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003, and her recent publications have appeared in the /Latin American Literary Review/ and /CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture/. Her research project at the Center investigates narrative representations of the nation in the literature and political discourse of the Americas, focusing in particular on the ways in which metaphorical associations between the natural environment and citizens or subjects have reinforced conceptions of the human body as a national resource or commodity.

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