Raquel Olea Explained

Raquel Olea (born 7 May 1944) is a Chilean writer, professor, cultural critic, and researcher. She is a Distinguished Professor of Arts, Letters, and Humanities (Emerita) at the University of Santiago.[1] Her areas of research are Spanish, Chilean, and Latin American literature, as well as gender studies and women's literature,[2] of which she was an important promoter during the time of the military dictatorship in Chile. She is recognized for her research on the work of Gabriela Mistral. Furthermore, Olea is a prominent figure of second-wave feminism in Chile during the Pinochet military dictatorship years.[3]

Biography

Raquel Olea studied literary studies at the University of Chile and later at the Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany, where she obtained her doctorate in Romance languages.[4]

Olea worked as a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Literature of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Santiago. She has been a visiting professor at University of California, Riverside and University of California, Berkeley, as well as at Duke University in North Carolina. She has lectured at Harvard University, New York University, and University of Helsinki. In 2000, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[5] [6]

Olea participated in the feminist NGO, Corporación de Desarrollo de la Mujer La Morada ("La Morada"), established in 1983 during the military dictatorship, of which she became director. She also participated in La Morada's feminist community radio station Radio Tierra, from 1991 to 1998, where she hosted the program Spanish; Castilian: Hablando de Literatura en la Tierra (Speaking of literature on Earth).[7] Olea participated in numerous literature and poetry meetings, of which the First International Congress of Latin American Women's Literature held in 1987 stands out.[8] Through literary criticism in the newspaper La Época (1987-1998), Olea has promoted various Chilean poets.[9]

Selected works

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Raquel Olea . kellogg.nd.edu . University of Notre Dame . 18 September 2023.
  2. Web site: Raquel Olea . https://web.archive.org/web/20180712221035/http://critica.cl/author/raquel-olea . 2018-07-12 . 18 September 2023 . Critica.cl . es-ES.
  3. Doll Castillo . Darcie . ESCRITURA/LITERATURA DE MUJERES: CRÍTICA FEMINISTA,CANON Y GENEALOGÍAS . . . . 2002 . 83– . 18 September 2023 . es . PDF.
  4. Web site: Raquel Olea habla de Lemebel, lenguaje y discriminación Explora . www.conicyt.cl . 18 September 2023 . es.
  5. Web site: Raquel Olea Barriga . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... . 18 September 2023.
  6. Web site: Olea . Raquel . Caceres . Teresa . Silva . Uca . Oyarzún . Kemy . Vidaurrázaga . Tamara . Maira . Gloria . Matamala . María Isabel . June 2010 . Y votamos por ella. Michelle Bachellet: miradas feministas . https://web.archive.org/web/20111118065313/http://www.insmujer.cl/libro.pdf . 2011-11-18 . Fundación Instituto de la Mujer . es.
  7. Web site: Hablando de Literatura en la Tierra Radio Tierra - 21 Años de Libertad - Santiago, Chile . radiotierra.cl . web.archive.org . 18 September 2023 . es . 28 May 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150528160417/http://www.radiotierra.cl/category/radio-tierra/programas/hablando-de-literatura-en-la-tierra . 2015-05-28 .
  8. News: Miranda . Rodrigo . Escritoras latinoamericanas se reúnen en Nueva York . 18 September 2023 . La Tercera . 27 March 2017 . es.
  9. News: Contreras . Leticia . Entrevista a Raquel Olea . 18 September 2023 . May 2013 . es.

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