Sylvia Molloy (writer)


Sylvia Molloy is an Argentine professor, author, editor and essayist based in New York. She was one of the pioneers in dealing with LGBT culture issues in her literary works and in studying autobiography as a genre.

Biography

Molloy was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1938. She graduated with her PhD in Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne in 1967. Molloy then became a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She was chair of the Modern Language Association of America in 2001 and the International Institute of Latin American Studies. Mollow was awarded title of Doctor Honoris Causa from Tulane University. She has taught at both Yale and Princeton universities. In 1974 she became the first woman to gain tenure at Princeton University. In 2007, she created the first Master of Fine Arts degree in the United States in creative Spanish writing at New York University where she holds the Albert Schweitzer chair of Humanities.

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