Dr. William Acree

William Acree, PhD (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2007) Acree’s research spans the fields of Latin American literary and cultural studies and has a strong historical focus. He is completing a book manuscript on the development of print culture and identity formation throughout the nineteenth century in Latin America’s most literate countries­-Uruguay and Argentina. Other interests include sociological approaches to the study of literature, popular literature prior to 1900, and the circus and traveling circus troupes in the Southern Cone. Acree pays special attention to writing technique and is currently co-editing two projects, ­one on black written culture in early independent Latin America, and the second titled Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America. His research has been supported by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship (2005-06 for Uruguay and Argentina) and grants from the Mellon and Tinker Foundations.