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Naomi Eva Lindstrom (born November 21, 1950, in Chicago) is an American
literary critic A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature' ...
and translator who has published books and articles on Latin American narrative and poetry and Jewish writing from
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.


Background

Lindstrom studied at the
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and is the Gale Family Foundation Professor in Jewish Arts and Culture and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the
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, where she is co-director of the Gale Collaborative on Jewish Life in the Americas at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies. Lindstrom is the daughter of the noted sociologist Frederick B. Lindstrom (1915–1998), best known as a student of popular culture and historian of the
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, 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 Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...
Literature'' and her 1998 study ''The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing''. Although her faculty appointment is in a language and literature department, she has occasionally published work in social science journals and has participated in sociology conferences. During the latter part of her career, Lindstrom has increasingly focused on the field of Latin American Jewish studies, both in her research and in her administrative roles. Since 1996, as part of her work with the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA), she has managed ''lajsa-list'', a
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on Latin American Jewish topics; the URL is lajsa-list@utilists.utexas.edu. On the LAJSA website (www.lajsa.org), she maintains a continually updated registry of dissertations and theses, both completed and in progress, on Latin American Jewish topics and an archive of resources for teaching courses in both Sephardic Studies and Latin American Jewish Studies.''Naomi Lindstrom, Professor'' (The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work

/ref> In 2012 Lindstrom was awarded the President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Texas. She was the general organizer of the International Research Conference of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association held June 9–11, 2013 at the University of Texas and co-organizer of two successive symposia on research into Jewish Life in the Americas held November 1–2, 2015 at the University of Texas and July 16–17, 2019 at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Lindstrom is also a literary translator and has been involved in the effort to make the novels of Roberto Arlt (Argentina, 1900–1942) available in English.


Selected works

*Arlt, Roberto. ''The Seven Madmen.'' Novel. Translated from the Spanish by Naomi Lindstrom. Minneapolis: River Boat Press, 2018. *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.


References


External links


Latin American Jewish Studies Association
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