Naomi Lindstrom is an American literary critic who has published books and articles on Latin American narrative and Jewish writing from Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

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Background

Lindstrom studied at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 and is a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature and a member of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

. Lindstrom is the daughter of the noted sociologist Frederick B. Lindstrom

Frederick B. Lindstrom

Frederick B. Lindstrom was an American sociologist specializing in popular culture and demography who spent over four decades, starting in 1953, as professor of sociology at Arizona State University.A Massachusetts native, Lindstrom was born in the town of Palmer, located within the Springfield...

 (1915–1998), best known as a student of popular culture and historian of the Chicago school (sociology)

Chicago school (sociology)

In sociology and later criminology, the Chicago School was the first major body of works emerging during the 1920s and 1930s specialising in urban sociology, and the research into the urban environment by combining theory and ethnographic fieldwork in Chicago, now applied elsewhere...

 , and the two collaborated and co-authored conference papers and articles.

Career

Elements of sociological thought influence Naomi Lindstrom's literary criticism, especially her 1989 book Jewish Issues in Argentine Literature and her 1998 study The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing. Since 1996, as part of her work with the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA), Lindstrom has managed lajsa-list, a listserv

LISTSERV

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 on Latin American Jewish topics; the URL is lajsa-list@utlists.utexas.edu. She is the content manager of the website

Website

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of LAJSA, which features research bibliographies for Latin American Jewish Studies and a continually updated registry of dissertations and theses, both completed and in progress, on Latin American Jewish topics. The site also has a page of resources for teaching courses in both Sephardic Studies and Latin American Jewish Studies. Hosted at the University of Texas at Austin, the LAJSA site has the URL www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/lajsa/

Selected works

• Lindstrom, Naomi. Early Spanish American Narrative. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.
• Lindstrom, Naomi. The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.
• Lindstrom, Naomi. Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
• Lindstrom, Naomi. Jewish Issues in Argentine Literature: From Gerchunoff to Szichman. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1989.

External links

• Latin American Jewish Studies Association