From Classroom to Bookshelf
July 24, 2025 - 04:47 PM
One of our adjunct professors of Spanish, Dr. Andrea Reyes, is considered an expert on the essays of the most outspoken and audacious female writer in 20th century Mexico, Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974).
In the course of her dissertation at UCLA, Reyes located 334 essays previously ignored by Castellanos鈥檚 editors, including her most controversial and political commentaries on social life and the status of women in Mexico. With the help of Castellanos鈥檚 friends, Reyes was able to get those essays published in Mexico in three volumes in 2004, 2006, and 2007, with the title Mujer de palabras: art铆culos rescatados de Rosario Castellanos.
A second edition was just published in 2024 in two volumes by the largest Mexican publishing house. As part of the celebration of what would have been Castellanos鈥檚 100th birthday, those new volumes were showcased in a book fair and conferences in spring of 2025. Prof. Reyes also published in 2014 the Preface to a commemorative edition of Castellanos鈥檚 first novel, Balun Can谩n, and participated in a special television program about the feminist thread that runs through all of Castellanos鈥檚 work below: