About Minni Sawhney

I am a professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Delhi where I have been teaching since 1990. I have taught Spanish and Latin American literature/history with special emphasis on Mexico. I researched for my Ph.d (on Mexican nationalism in Carlos Fuentes) at the El Colegio de Mexico in 1995 and later at the UNAM in 2004 for a project on the portrayal of the foreigner in Mexican literature. I currently work on the narco novel (Elmer Mendoza) and am enlarging my interest in Central American literature (Horacio Castellanos Moya, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Josefina Baez). I also work on Muslims in Golden Age Spanish literature in the works of Cervantes and Lope de Vega.

Minni Sawhney is a professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Delhi

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NBN Episodes hosted by Minni:

Anjanette Delgado, "Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness" (UP of Florida Press, 2021)

May 27, 2022

Home in Florida

Anjanette Delgado
Hosted by Minni Sawhney

Today I spoke to Anjanette Delgado, a Puerto Rican writer and journalist based in Miami who has compiled emblematic stories and essays by writers from…

Adrian Shubert, "The Sword of Luchana: Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

April 7, 2022

The Sword of Luchana

Adrian Shubert
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Today I spoke to Prof. Adrian Shubert, professor of History at York University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada about his book on the ninet…

Rebecca Janzen, "Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in Mexico" (SUNY Press, 2021)

February 24, 2022

Unholy Trinity

Rebecca Janzen
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Today I spoke to Dr. Rebecca Janzen, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of South Carolina about her book U…

Manuel Padilla Jr., "Coconut: Brown on the Outside, White on the Inside" (Xlibris, 2020)

February 15, 2022

Coconut

Manuel Padilla Jr.
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Manuel Padilla Jr. spoke to me today in his very accessible yet historically conscious novel Coconut: Brown on the Outside, White on the Inside (Xlibr…

Lynn Stephen, "Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas" (Duke UP, 2021)

December 29, 2021

Stories That Make History

Lynn Stephen
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Elena Poniatowska is a legendary Mexican journalist who has chronicled popular celebrities, politicians as well as important social movements in Mexic…

Álvaro Santana-Acuña, "Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic" (Columbia UP, 2020)

December 3, 2021

Ascent to Glory

Álvaro Santana-Acuña
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One Hundred Years of Solitude is a revered classic today fifty five years after it was first published in 1967. Today I talked to Alvaro Santana Acuñ…

Viviana B. MacManus, "Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America's Dirty Wars" (U Illinois Press, 2020)

October 22, 2021

Disruptive Archives

Viviana Beatriz MacManus
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Today I talked to Viviana MacManus, author of Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars published by the Uni…

J. L. Torres, "Migrations" (LA Review of Books, 2021)

October 12, 2021

Migrations

J. L. Torres
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Migrations (LA Review of Books, 2021) is a collection of short stories by the Puerto Rican born writer and now retired university professor J. L. Torr…

Alex Poole, "Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)

September 9, 2021

Learning a Foreign Language

Alex Poole
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In Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), Alex Poole, professor of English at West…

Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández, "Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)

July 14, 2021

Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs

Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández
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Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández's book Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) explores the current human rights c…