Department of Foreign Languages

Dr. Dolores Rangel

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Department of Foreign Languages
Georgia Southern University
Post Office Box 8081
1343 Forest Drive Building
Statesboro, GA 30460

Telephone: (912) 478-0774
Fax: (912) 478-0652
E-mail: drangel

Dr. Dolores Rangel is a native of Monterrey, Mexico and is a Canadian citizen. She studied Licenciada en Letras Españolas (BA in Spanish Letters) in the Tec de Monterrey and, after graduation, spent six months in Madrid studying Literature and Linguistics in the OFINES (Oficina Internacional de Información y Observación del Español). She received her MA in Spanish from New Mexico State University and her Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from the University of Buffalo.

Dr. Rangel taught for several years in the Tec de Monterrey and has been Visiting Professor in Queen’s University in Canada and in the University of Texas at Brownsville. In Fall 2005 she joined the Department of Foreign Languages at GSU as Assistant Professor. She teaches all levels of Spanish both at the undergraduate and graduate level. Dr. Rangel was the director of the former Study Abroad Program in Costa Rica and is now in charge of the new Study Abroad Program in Xalapa, Mexico. Dr. Rangel was also the director of the former Center for Latino Outreach and Research Services.

Dr. Rangel’s areas of interest are Contemporary Mexican Narrative, Contemporary Latin American Narrative, and Colonial Literature. She is also interested in the narrative works of some Latin American Jewish women and their representation of women, exile, and identity. She has published several articles in the Revista de Humanidades and in Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea.