Sandra M. Benedet

Sandra María Benedet is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Roosevelt University, a socially conscious, private university in metropolitan Chicago. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish from Stanford University, a B.A. from San Francisco State University, and has taught at The University of Iowa, and Northwestern University. Benedet teaches a wide range of courses, including language, composition, and literature courses on such subjects as Hispanic women writers, Mexican national identity, and utopias and dystopias in literature. She is currently teaching a course on urban literature, in which she examines the way in which the Latin American city has been imagined in the 20th century.

Sandra Benedet’s area of interest is Mexico; she has worked extensively on questions of modernity as they relate to the Estridentista Movement, an avant-garde formation that surfaced in Mexico in the 1920s. Presently, she is working on the role of the artist and the city in the work of Arqueles Vela. Her work has appeared in “La palabra y el hombre: Revista de la Universidad Veracruzana,” and “Contratiempo,” a Chicago based publication. In her spare time, she practices yoga.