MICHELLE JOFFROY

Michelle Joffroy has a B.A in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Professor Joffroy teaches courses on cultural production in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Zapatismo and indigenous cultural resistance, women’s narratives and environmental justice in the Americas, and Spanish for heritage speakers. Her research focuses on questions of gender, ethnicity and representation at the intersection of cultural production and transnational social movements. She serves on the Latin American and Latin@ Studies Program, the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, the Environmental Science and Policy Program, the Sustainable Food Concentration, and the Advisory Committee to the Center for Global Studies.

Phone: 413-585-3452
Building: 8 College Lane, Room 203
E-mail: mjoffroy@smith.edu