Eugene M. Lang Research Professor
and Professor of Sociology

email: bmunoz1@swarthmore.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2006 Thursdays 10:00-12:00 p.m.
Kohlberg 242

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 1977
M.A. in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 1974
B.A. in Sociology, University of Rhode Island, 1973

Selected Publications and Activities:

THE PERUVIAN NOTEBOOKS, a novel. University of Arizona Press, 2006

Alejandro y los pescadores de Tancay. Novel: Andrea Lippolis Editore. Messina. 2004. Second edition: Uladech, Chimbote, Peru. 2005

A Storyteller: Vargas Llosa Between Civilization and Barbarism. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Paperback: 2000.

Tensions in Social Theory: Groundwork for a Future Moral Sociology, Presidential Series on Ethics and Values, Loyola University Press, 1993.

Sons of the Wind: The Search for Identity in Spanish American Indian Literature, New Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers University Press, 1982. Paperback: 1982.

Spanish Edition: Huairapamushcas: La búsqueda de la identidad en la novela indigenista hispanoamericana. With a new introduction. Ediciones de la Universidad de la Frontera, Chile, 1996.

Teaching and Research Interests:

Social Theory and Social Philosophy; Sociology of Culture;
Latin America.

Courses and Seminars Taught:

Freshman Seminar: Introduction to Contemporary Social Thought
Selected Topics in Social Theory
Contemporary Social Theory
Modern Social Theory
Critical Modern Social Theory
Freud and Modern Social Theory
Critical Social Theory
Art and Society
Latin America: Society and Culture
Spanish America Through Its Novel