Ana Cara

{{Short description|American academic}}

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| awards = Willis Barnstone Translation Prize (2007)

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Ana C. Cara is an Argentine creolist, translator, and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College.{{Cite web|url=http://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/hispanic_studies/faculty_detail.dot?id=20615|title = Hispanic Studies|website = Oberlin College|date = 24 October 2016}}

She graduated from Middlebury College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1972, from University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Arts in Folklore and Folklife in 1974, and with a Doctor of Philosophy in Folklore and Folklife in 1983.

She was visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley.{{cite web|url=http://www.clas.berkeley.edu/People/visiting/fall04-spring05/index.html |title=Visiting Professors, 2004-05 |website=UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies |accessdate=2010-05-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609223847/http://clas.berkeley.edu/People/visiting/fall04-spring05/index.html |archivedate=2010-06-09 }}

Awards

  • 2007 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize{{cite web|url=http://evansvillereview.evansville.edu/2007.htm |title=The Evansville Review Volume XVII Table of Contents |website=University of Evansville |accessdate=2010-05-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616034135/http://evansvillereview.evansville.edu/2007.htm |archivedate=2010-06-16 }}

Works

  • "The Poetics of Creole Talk: Toward an Aesthetic of Argentine Verbal Art", Journal of American Folklore, Volume 116, Number 459, Winter 2003, pp. 36–56
  • Baron, Robert, Cara, Ana, "Introduction: Creolization and Folklore", Journal of American Folklore, 2003

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