Simmons College

Dánisa Bonacic, assistant professor of Spanish, joined the Modern Languages and Literatures department in fall 2007. She teaches advanced language courses and literature courses including Latin American Women Writers. Her research interests include twentieth century Latin American literature, post-dictatorship literature, recent generations of writers, and novels published in the 90s in Chile, Argentina, and Perú. In her doctoral dissertation entitled: Sujeto, convivencia y comunidad en tres narrativas de fines del siglo veinte: Salón de Belleza de Mario Bellatin, El Nadador de Gonzalo Contreras y El Dock de Matilde Sánchez, Bonacic explores and analyzes the struggles of characters affected by the isolation of impersonal cities, various forms of social persecution, and dysfunctional family lives. Professor Bonacic, a native of Chile, received a B. A. and a M.A. in Spanish Literature and Linguistics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a Ph.D in Hispanic Studies from Brown University.