MA in Foreign Languages

Gladys Ilarregui, PhD, 1990

BA Philosophy '88 and MA Foreign Languages '90

Dr. Gladys Ilarregui received her master’s degree from George Mason University and her PhD from Catholic University in 1995. Her PhD focus was a concentration on Mexican colonial times and women in pre-Hispanic traditions. She has written a monograph on this subject and went on to publish numerous articles in the Americas and Europe on human rights from the XVI to the XXI century, in an interdisciplinary conversation of authors, periods, indigenous lives and poetry as a tool for revolution.

She is the author of seven books of poetry, most of them earning international prizes in Argentina, Mexico and the United States. Her postgraduate studies include seminars at the Folger Institute, the School of Theory and Criticism at Cornell University, and the University of Austin, in Guatemala. She is a member of numerous scientific committees and focuses particularly on the issue of human rights in Latin America (most recently at the University of Milano) and she has been an active participant in co-organizing international conferences and symposia around the world.

Dr. Ilarregui is associate professor at the University of Delaware and she has recently received a Fulbright Specialist Award for research and teaching at the Peninsular Center on Humanities and Sciences – UNAM in Yucatan, Mexico. Her work focuses on Latin American women poets, their identity, culture, and gender politics, with particular emphasis on Maya women writing and textiles.