• A Mexico City native, professor Rosana Blanco-Cano received her B.A. in Hispanic literature from the National University of Mexico. She completed a master's and Ph.D. in Spanish with a specialization in Mexican cultural studies at Tulane University in New Orleans.

     At Trinity, she has taught a wide variety of courses on language, writing, literature, and culture. She has created a number of new classes in which she favors an interdisciplinary approach. An interdisciplinary approach not only creates a more positive response from students, who seem to enjoy the incorporation of different genres and disciplines in one class, but also demonstrates concretely that the interpretation of Latin American cultural phenomena can be diverse and even at times contradictory. She has participated in several teaching and academic experiences in Mexico with Trinity students, tying her teaching in a number of ways to her scholarly research.

    She has presented her work in national and international conferences and written several journal articles. She co-wrote 100 Years of Spanish Cinema (London: Blackwell, 2008), and is the author of Cuerpos disidentes del México imaginado: Cultura, género, etnia y nación más allá del proyecto posrevolucionario (Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2010).

    • Ph.D. in Spanish, Tulane University 
    • M.A. in Spanish, Tulane University
    • B.A. in Hispanic Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico 

    Books

    • Cuerpos disidentes del México imaginado: Cultura, género, etnia y nación más allá del proyecto posrevolucionario. Madrid/Frankfurt: Editorial Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2010. (Nexos y diferencias. Estudios de la Cultura de América Latina, 29). ISBN 9788484895091

    Refereed articles and book chapters

    • "Geografías y ciudadanías alternativas desde Chiapas, México: Una mujer desesperada (1992) de Petrona de la Cruz-Cruz." Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (UC Santa Cruz) 8. 1&2 (Spring 2009): 91–124
    • "Revisiones a las narraciones históricas mexicanas en Duerme (1994) e 'Isabel' (2000) de Carmen Boullosa." Espéculo. Revista de Estudios literarios (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 40 (Nov.2008–Feb.2009): s/n
    • "Espacios de poder: Revisiones a las prácticas de género y ciudadanía en el teatro de Petrona de la Cruz Cruz." Revista Letras Femeninas-Asociación de Feministas Hispánicas (Arizona State University) 33.1 (2007): 73–96
    • "Escritura desde ventanas: tres perspectivas en la trayectoria literaria de María Luisa Puga." Anuario de Letras (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) XLIV (2006): 211–231
    • "Masculinidades en atribulación, ansiedad y transición en Carne Trémula (1997) de Pedro Almodóvar." Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (Australia) 12.2 (2006): 55–75
    • "¿Subversiones o reproducciones?: la norma heterosexual en Infinita de Ethel Krauze." Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea (UT, El Paso) 11.29 (Abril 2006): 83–94
    • "Cuerpos míticos y políticos en descontrol: la gran familia mexicana en el cine del nuevo milenio," CiberLetras: Journal of literary criticism and culture (Yale University, CUNY) 13 (July 2005): s/n
    • "Dislocamientos sexuales, genéricos y nacionales en Infinita de Ethel Krauze." CiberLetras: Journal of literary criticism and culture (Yale University, CUNY) 11 (July 2004): s/n

    Textbook

    • 100 Years of Spanish Cinema. Co-autored with Tatjana Pavlovic, Inmaculada Álvarez, Alejandra Osorio, Alejandra Sanchez, and Anitra Grisales. London: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. ISBN 9781405184205/ ISBN 9781444304794

    Book Reviews

    • "Foster, David William. Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema." Tipiti: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 3.2 (2005): 219–222

    Blanco-Cano's research focus is (trans)national Mexican cultural studies, gender and performance studies, Latin American cinema and Spanish cinema. Over the next years, she will be conducting research on contemporary Latin American cinema productions to conceive a companion text for undergraduate and graduate classes. Also, she will continue her research on horror in Latin America and Spain and  open a new line of research on depictions of gender, sexuality, politics, and citizenships in contemporary Mexican TV productions.

    • Spanish - American Cinema
    • Spanish - American Women Writers 
    • Horror Cinema and Literature in Latin America and Spain 
    • (Trans)national Mexican Popular Culture 
    • Brazil: Language, Culture and Identity 
    • MAS Program FYS Migratory Cultures in the Americas 
    • All levels of Spanish Language

    Trinity Involvement

    Blanco-Cano currently co-directs the Program of Women's and Gender Studies at Trinity University and is the chair of the Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies Discussion Group at the Modern Languages Association.

    She co-organized a Lennox Seminar on Transnational Mexican Cultures (2008, Trinity U.) and organized the first MAS Program Alvarez Seminar on New Identities in the Americas (2010, Trinity U.).

    She has been sponsor of Venga! Spanish Conversational Group, Latino Exchange, and is the current adviser of the Spanish Honors Society Sigma Delta Pi.

    Community Involvement

    She organized the  MAS Program Álvarez Seminar on New Identities in the Americas (Spring 2010),  a semester event that served to enrich campus presence in San Antonio community and vice versa.