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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.NBN Episodes hosted by Minni:
May 27, 2022
Home in Florida
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…
April 7, 2022
The Sword of Luchana
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…
February 24, 2022
Unholy Trinity
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…
February 15, 2022
Coconut
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…
December 29, 2021
Stories That Make History
Elena Poniatowska is a legendary Mexican journalist who has chronicled popular celebrities, politicians as well as important social movements in Mexic…
December 3, 2021
Ascent to Glory
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…
October 22, 2021
Disruptive Archives
Today I talked to Viviana MacManus, author of Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars published by the Uni…
October 12, 2021
Migrations
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…
September 9, 2021
Learning a Foreign Language
In Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), Alex Poole, professor of English at West…
July 14, 2021
Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs
Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández's book Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) explores the current human rights c…