Professors Moya, Guibbory and Rios-Font Join Tenured Faculty
New York, NY-- Three new scholars have joined Barnard's tenured faculty this fall, including Professor Jose Moya to the History Department; Professor Achsah Guibbory to the English Department; and Professor Wadda C. Ríos-Font to the Spanish and Latin American Cultures Department. Moya, a leading scholar on migration studies, will be the new director of Migration and Diaspora Studies at Barnard and will teach courses on Latin America in the 19 th century. Professor Guibbory will teach courses in Milton and Donne and Renaissance love poetry, and Professor Ríos-Font's courses will focus on modern and contemporary Peninsular literature and culture from 1800 to the present.
To view a complete list of new faculty, please visit barnard.edu/provost/facultyinformation.
Jose Moya
Professor Moya, whose award-winning book Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), has been widely acclaimed as a model for migration studies, will direct Migration and Diaspora Studies at Barnard in addition to teaching courses in his area of expertise: Latin America in the 19 th Century. For the past nine years, Moya has taught at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is currently working on a book about the social, cultural, and intellectual history of anarchism in belle époque Buenos Aires. This project has earned grants from the Fulbright Commission, the Fundación Antorchas, The National Endowment for the Humanities, the UC President Research Fellowship in the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies' Burkhardt Fellowship. He is also working on a socio-cultural history of May Day (the International Labor Day) in New York, Buenos Aires, London, Paris, and Barcelona. He is the editor of Latin American History and Historiography (Oxford University Press, 2004) and co-author of Modern Latin American History (McGraw Hill, 2004). His numerous articles have been published in periodicals, including the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , Historical Methods , and Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe . Moya received his B.A. from Kean University and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
Achsah Guibbory
Guibbory, Professor of English at Barnard, joined the College last year as Visiting Professor of English from the University of Illinois. She received her doctorate from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1970 and taught at the University of Illinois for three decades. She is teaching courses in Milton and Donne and Renaissance love poetry. She is currently working on a book, titled Imagined Identities: the Uses of Judaism in Seventeenth-Century England and completing The Cambridge Companion to John Donne. Guibbory is a recipient of many honors and awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship (2001-02) and the Harriet and Charles Luckman Undergraduate Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Illinois (1995). She has served as president of the Milton Society of America and the John Donne Society. In addition to publishing numerous articles on seventeenth-century literature and culture, she has published several books including The Map of Time: Seventeenth-Century English Literature and Ideas of Pattern in History and Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton: Literature, Religion and Cultural Conflict in Seventeenth-Century English Literature . Guibbory received her B.A. from Indiana University.
Wadda C. Rios-Font
Professor Ríos-Font specializes in modern and contemporary Peninsular literature and culture from 1800 to the present and her interests include cultural theory, gender issues, and transatlantic exchanges. Ríos-Font taught at Brown University from 1996 to this year. Her latest book, The Canon and the Archive: Configuring Literature in Modern Spain (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, and London: Associate University Presses, 2004) explores literature in modern Spain. She has also written Rewriting Melodrama: The Hidden Paradigm in Modern Spanish Theatre (Bucknell, 1997), which chronicles the evolution of this genre from the early 1800s through the 1920s. Her work has been published in many journals, including Hispanic Review , Hispania , MLN , and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos ; as well as in volumes such as the Cambridge History of Spanish Literature . She received her B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University and her Ph.D. from Harvard University.
For more information, please contact Suzanne Trimel in the Barnard Office of Public Affairs, (212) 854-2037, strimel@barnard.edu
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