Kirsten Nigro received a master's degree from Middlebury College and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before coming to the University of Cincinnati, she held teaching positions at the University of Arizona, University of Kansas, and Arizona State University. Professor Nigro's areas of research and teaching interest include Latin American literature and theatre; women writers; feminist theory; colonial/postcolonial discourse; all aspects of women and theatre; and Mexico. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on these topics. She has won a number of honors and awards including Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Fulbright scholarship, NEH fellowship, Fideicomisio Para la Cultura Mexico/USA (Rockefeller Foundation/Mexican Ministry of Culture). Professor Nigro is editor of the Taft Memorial Fund and University of Cincinnati Series on Latin American, Chicano and U.S. Latino Theatre. She serves on the editorial boards of various major journals in the field of Hispanic literature and is book review editor for Latin American Theatre Review.
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