Roberta Salper
Areas of Expertise
Spanish and Caribbean Literature and Politics; Women’s Studies and Feminist Identity; Social Activism
Email: salper@brandeis.edu
Current Project
My project is to continue work on The Revolutionary Decades (1960-1980) A Testimonial. This is a historical/literary memoir of the political development and personal formation of a progressive feminist activist/scholar immersed in the politics and culture of the United States, Spain, Cuba and Puerto Rico during 1960-1980.
Biography
Roberta was the Founding Director of the first full-fledged Women’s Studies Program in the country at San Diego State in 1970, and subsequently spent five years as a Resident Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC. The recipient of grants from Harvard, NEH and the Social Science Research Council, Roberta has been a member of the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and of the first MLA Commission on the Status of the Women in the Profession.
In addition to an early anthology (1972) and numerous articles on the Women’s Movement and the development of Women’s Studies, her areas of research and publications include gender, cultural and political analysis of the Caribbean and modern Spain.

Education
Ph.D., Harvard University
M.A., Harvard University
B.A., Boston University
Representative Publications
Salper, Roberta and Maier, Carol, eds. Ramon Maria del Valle-Inclán: Questions of Gender. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1994.
Salper, Roberta, ed. Female Liberation: History and Current Politics. New York: Random House (Alfred Knopf), 1972.


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