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Angela Willis serves as Assistant Dean for Educational Policy and Professor of Hispanic Studies and Latin American Studies at Davidson College, based in Chambers 3270 with contact details anwillis@davidson.edu and 704-894-2581.
She earned her Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. from the University of Texas, Austin.
Professor Willis's research employs a comparative framework examining transatlantic and transtemporal intertextualities within Hispanic literary traditions. Her scholarship emphasizes literary continuities through re-writings of early modern Spanish texts—particularly Renaissance novels—in postmodern contexts. Central to her work are transgressive narratives, literary underdogs and rebels, and writing as mechanisms for escape and survival. She has dedicated over a decade to analyzing the re-imagining of picaresque novel traditions across Spanish-language literature, with specific focus on Cuban dissident Reinaldo Arenas's narratives.
Her teaching integrates research with experiential learning through campus-wide Don Quijote de la Mancha reading marathons and Golden Age Theatre productions. Course offerings span Latin American Studies introductions to advanced seminars on literary survival themes, Spanish Renaissance theater, and specialized studies of the picaresque novel.
