Rebecca E. Biron holds the Dartmouth Professorship in Spanish and Comparative Literature and directs the Leslie Center for the Humanities. She is mainly interested in how human beings make meaning.  Her research and teaching  focus on global literary and critical theory, Latin American literary and cultural studies, gender studies, and Mexican cultural criticism. She has published widely on the relationship between narrative and violence as it pertains to masculinity, Latin American urban history, and Mexican literature and film. Professor Biron served as Dartmouth's Dean of the College from 2015-2018. She has chaired the Dartmouth program in Latin American/Latino/Caribbean Studies and the Theater Department. She has been interim chair of Spanish and Portuguese, director of the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature, and director of the Humanities I&II course sequence. Before joining the Dartmouth community, she taught at the University of Miami, Emory University, and the University of Iowa.