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Category Archives: Art
Americans in Spain (1820-1920): Traveling Women Artists and their Subjects
Typically some of my favorite things to blog about are trips to art museums and special exhibits that connect to my research and teaching interests on various topics related to Spanish history, culture, and literature. Taking in specially curated collections, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Spain, Women
Tagged 19th century, 20th century, art, art history, books, museo del prado, Spain, travel, velazquez, women, women's history
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Cartographic Narratives: Using Data and Mapping Principles to Teach L2 Literature
One of my main goals in teaching second-language (L2) Spanish Literature courses is to develop non-traditional tasks that demonstrate the value of reading for the development of the target language. Students often perceive literature classes as boring, difficult, or irrelevant – and who can blame them? Literature pedagogy, in either the L1 or the L2 leaves much to be desired… if it exists at all. Continue reading
Posted in Art, History, Literature, Modernity, Pedagogy, Spain
Tagged Carmen de Burgos, L2 Literature Pedagogy, La rampa, La Venus mecanica, madrid, maps, spanish literature, urban studies
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New Books, Creative Maps, and Literary Art for 2021… plus my optimistic(!) 2020 re-cap
In 2020 I had the lofty goal of posting something new to the blog each month — and while I started out strong in January and February… for obvious global-pandemic-related reasons that pattern did not hold up! I managed 5 … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Feminism, Language, Literature, Pedagogy, Spain
Tagged art, Carmen de Burgos, Don Quijote de la Mancha, Don Quixote, L2 Literature Pedagogy, maps, Maria Sanchez, pedagogy, Quijote, rural, snapchat
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Mapping Madrid through Art, Literature, and Creative Cartography
Since this fall semester is clearly “unprecedented”, unpredictable, and a whole host of adjectives that are pretty much ALL stress-inducing, I am taking the opportunity to experiment in my senior-seminar on 20th-century Spain. Last fall I taught a similar course … Continue reading
Posted in Art, History, Literature, Pedagogy, Spain, Spanish Civil War
Tagged guernica, L2 Literature Pedagogy, madrid, maps, museo reina sofia, Pablo Picasso, pedagogy, poetry, spanish civil war, teaching
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Farming, Gardening, and Female Labor: Carmen de Burgos’ “La mujer agricultora” (1903)
Now that the crazy and unpredictable Spring 2020 Covid19-semester is finally over, and since I’ll now be spending my entire summer in Kansas rather than in Spain and Mexico, I am working to shift my focus back to writing and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, First-wave spanish feminism, History, Literature, Spain, Women
Tagged agriculture, Carmen de Burgos, city, country, femininity, gardens, Joaquin Sorolla, maruja mallo, museo sorolla, rural, science, spanish literature, technology
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María Victoria de la Fuente Alonso’s Scenes of Sleep in Galicia
When I was in Spain in the summer of 2018, one of my friends welcomed me to her home in Pontevedra, where I stayed for a few days to explore this region of Galicia for the first time. She was … Continue reading
The Body, Blood, and Soul of Spanish Modernity: review of Life Embodied
It’s been quite awhile since I’ve been able to find the time to put up a new post! Aside from a few weeks during my summer trip to Spain where I managed to write about two fantastic new books (A … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Literature, Modernity, Science and Medicine, Spain
Tagged 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, body, medical history, medicine, Miguel de Unamuno, modernism, modernity, philosophy, science, soul, spanish literature, vital force
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Joaquín Sorolla and Fashion in Madrid’s Museums
From February 13 to May 27 (2018), the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Museo Sorolla in Madrid presented the special exhibit, “Sorolla y la Moda” / “Sorolla and Fashion.” I was especially excited to see this particular special exhibit advertised … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Spain
Tagged 1920s, El tiempo entre costuras, fashion, fin-de-siecle, Joaquin Sorolla, madrid, museo sorolla, museo thyssen, spanish art
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Fashion and the Fine Arts in Carmen de Burgos’ Avant-garde Novel, La mujer fantástica
I’m going to start the new year with a post on my most recent article, “Fashion, Ekphrasis, and the Avant-Garde Novel: Carmen de Burgos’ La mujer fantástica (1924)”, which was published in the open-access journal Ciberletras in December 2017. I … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Literature, Modernity, Spain, Women
Tagged 1920s, art history, avant garde, Carmen de Burgos, ekphrasis, Empress Eugenie, fashion, novel, Paris, vanguardia, Winterhalter
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