Professor of Spanish
Director, Bachelors of Liberal Studies Program
Ana (Garcia Domínguez) Chichester was born in Cuba. She received her doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1992.
Her past publication gathers anti-separatist images in the Havana press: “Print Media and Political bias: The Portrayal of Gender and Race in Cuban Anti-Separatist Newspapers Don Junípero and El Moro Muza.” Polymath: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Arts and Sciences. October 2014.
She has also published on 19th century poetry: “Nación, activismo y solidaridad: Poetas mambisas durante las Guerras de Independencia de Cuba.” Las mujeres en la Independencia de América Latina. Lima: UNESCO, Universidad San Martín de Porres, 2010.
Her latest publications include a study on the subject of women and war entitled “Independence and the By-Products of War: Women Poets and Late Colonial Cuba.” In Corpus Cuba: Ever Imagined and Restrained. Special Issue of Voces del Caribe, Vol 10 (Fall 2018): 240-275.
http://vocesdelcaribe.org/journal/
Dr. Chichester also published a study of Cuban statesman and writer Emilio Bacardi entitled: “El ideario decimonónico y la imagen de la mambisa: Orfandad y marginalización en la obra de Emilio Bacardí.” Revista Del Caribe (Santiago de Cuba), No. 66 (2016). Invited and reprinted with permission of CEMHAL, UNESCO.
Ph.D., University of Virginia
M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., Mary Washington College.
Located in Combs Hall – Room 242
Email: achiches@umw.edu
(540) 654-1989
