Curriculum Vitae  Books  Video  Courses  Students Directed  Consortium for   Andean Studies  Contact Info		REGINA HARRISON's scholarship combines the disciplines of anthropology and literature, as reflected in her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her book Signs, Songs, and Memory in the Andes: Translating Quechua Language and Culture (University of Texas, 1989) received the first Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Prize from the Modern Language Association in 1991, and was also awarded prizes from the Latin American Studies Association and the New England Council of Latin American Studies. A Professor in Spanish and Comparative Literature and affiliate Professor in Anthropology, Harrison teaches Quechua, the language spoken by the Incas, as well as Latin American cultures and literatures. Her third book, Entre el tronar épico y el llanto elegíaco (Quito, Ecuador; 1997), analyzes the use of the Indian symbol in poetry as Ecuador "negotiates nation" in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her video, Cashing in on Culture: Indegenious Communities and Tourism (2002), is a collaboration with indigenous Ecuadorians who comment on tourism, the economic benefits, and the downside of cultural assimilation. With a Guggenheim Fellowship (1999-2000), Harrison analyzes confession manuals and sermons written in Spanish and Quechua to determine "semantic conversions." She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, and later lived with indigenous communities in the tropical forest and the Andes. Her research has been sponsored by S.S.R.C., A.C.L.S., Rockefeller, Fulbright, N.E.H., and the Mellon Foundation. She is also a Visiting Faculty member at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Quito, Ecuador) and in the Centro de Estudios Regionalistas Andinos Bartolomé de Las Casas (Cusco, Peru).
	Comparative Literature Program Department of Spanish & Portuguese Department of Anthropology