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English and Philosophy Faculty Gabriella Ibieta

Discipline: Comparative Literature; Cuban and Latin American Fiction

Degrees: Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Graduate Center, City University of New York
M.A., Comparative Literature, City University of New York
B.A., English, Douglass College of Rutgers University

Office: MacAlister 5033
Phone: (215) 895-6959
Fax: (215) 895-1071
E-mail: ibietag@drexel.edu

Gabriella Ibieta was Director of the English Major since its inception in 2001 through 2007. She is the author of Tradition and Renewal in La gloria de don Ramiro; editor of Latin American Writers: 30 stories; and co-editor of Inventing America: Readings in Identity and Culture. Her essays have been published in the books Literature and Exile and Remembering Cuba: The Legacy of a Diaspora, and in numerous academic journals. Dr. Ibieta is the recipient of an award from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). She is the proud recipient of the Drexel Student Government's Student Choice Award for "Most Passionate Professor."

Dr. Ibieta teaches several courses in the Department of English and Philosophy, including Latin American and Caribbean Literature, American Ethnic Literature, Memoir and Documentary Film and Women and Literature.