Assistant Professor
Major and Minor Advisor
209 Milbank Hall
Ext. 4-6065
mhorn@barnard.edu

   Maja Horn received her B.A. in Latin American Literature from Smith College in 1998, an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU in 2002, and her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Cornell University in 2005. Before joining Barnard faculty in 2006, she was a research associate at FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she developed and taught a performance studies specialization.

  In addition to her work at SLAC, Professor Horn is affiliated with the Africana Studies Program and has taught for the First-Year Seminar program at Barnard.

   Professor Horn specializes in contemporary Hispanic Caribbean cultures with a focus on literature, visual and performance art. Currently she is completing a major research project exploring how Dominican artists and writers interrogate Dominican gender and sexual norms outside the language of Western identity politics. A second research project engages critically with the work of principal Caribbean thinkers, such as Edouard Glissant and Antonio Benítez-Rojo, and the relationship that they posit between Afro-Caribbean performance and notions of the political.

Recent courses taught at Barnard include:

Race and Performance in the Caribbean (Africana Studies/Theatre)
Global Literatures: The Caribbean Diaspora (First-Year Seminar)
Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Cultures (SLAC)
Literature of the Spanish Caribbean: Poesía Popular, crónicas cantadas y prosas performativas del Caribe hispano (SLAC)
Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures (SLAC)