Robert Sims

Dr. Robert Sims is a Professor and Coordinator of Spanish Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University's College of Humanities and Sciences. A Fulbright Scholar with extensive international experience, he has taught Latin American literature in Colombia and worked as a Peace Corps volunteer (1968-1970). His academic work focuses on myth theory in modern literature, structuralist analysis, and postmodern/postcolonial frameworks in Latin America.

• Ph.D. in French (minor in Spanish), University of Wisconsin (1973)
• M.A. in French, University of Wisconsin (1968)
• B.A. in French, University of Michigan (1966)

Research specialties include:

• Claude Simon and Gabriel García Márquez's mythic narratives
• Structuralist literary analysis
• Dialogic criticism
• Reader-response theory
• Narratology and deconstruction
• Mikhail Bakhtin's critical writings
• Christopher Columbus's literary representation
• New Latin American Historical Novel

Scientific Awards:

• Fulbright Scholar (1987, 1988, 1992)