Director of Undergraduate Studies (Fall 2008)

On Leave Spring 2009

(203) 432-1155

Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College, 1975, Professor.

Areas of interest: nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literature and culture, comparative literature, interdisciplinary approaches to modern Spanish culture; Spanish Civil War; religion and literature.

She is the author of: The Decadent Vision in Leopoldo Alas (1981); The Novels of Jacinto Octavio Picón (1986); Leopoldo Alas (Clarin): An Annotated Bibliography (1986); In the Feminine Mode: Essays on Hispanic Women Writers (co-editor) (1990);"Malevolent Insemination" and Other Essays on Clarín (1990) (editor); editions of Carolina Coronado's Poesías (1991), Picón's La hijastra del amor (1990), and Pereda's Bocetos al temple (1990); Las conjuradoras: Antología bilingüe de seis poetas norteamericanas de hoy (1993); a translation of Pedro Salinas's Víspera del gozo (Prelude to Pleasure) (1993); The Poetry of Julia Uceda (1995), and other studies. Published in 2002-03: Leopoldo Alas (Clarín): An Annotated Bibliography. Supplement I; Mi casa me recuerda/My House Remembers Me (poetry), and The Culture of Cursilería. Bad Taste, Kitsch and Class in Modern Spain, which won the MLA's 2003 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize. Recent Publications: The Poetry of Sara Pujol Russell (Introd. and Trans.) (2005); Reading the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel: Selected Essays (2005); Burning Cartography, poetry by Noni Benegas (Introd. and Trans.) (2007) and Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War (2007), an edited volume for the Modern Language Association.

The recipent of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2006-2007, she is currently preparing a book titled Sacred Realism: Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative.