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Category Archives: Literature
Non-Motherhood, (In)Fertility, and Choice in Two Recent Spanish Narratives
This post shares my recent article, published in the Hispanic Studies Review, which analyzes two Spanish “hybrid narratives”: Míriam Aguilar’s “¿Y ahora qué?” (2024) and Paola Andrea Ghirardi’s “Diario de una bordadora” (2023), exploring non-motherhood, fertility struggles, and maternal desire. The excerpts from this article show how these writers challenge societal views on motherhood, offer alternative narratives that validate the experiences of women confronting infertility, and redefine their identity beyond motherhood. Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Literature, Spain, Women
Tagged Spain, maternity, motherhood, spanish literature, books, contemporary spanish literature, nonmotherhood, infertility, publication, maternidad, no maternidad
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Geographies of Urban Female Labor and Nationhood in Spanish Culture (1880-1975) (review)
It’s been a LONG time since I wrote a new post, as the past three years have been unpredictable and anxiety-ridden, to put it mildly! I was able to take students to Spain again this summer (2022) which was so … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, History, Literature, Spain
Tagged 1920s, 1930s, 19th century, 20th century, angel del hogar, books, domesticity, gender, literature, madrid, seccion femenina, Spain, spanish literature, urban studies, 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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Don Quijote, the Graphic Novel, and Snapchat: Alternative Assessments in the L2 Literature Classroom
For this post, I’m sharing details of my most recent article, “Snapping the Quijote: Examining L2 Literature, Social Media, and Digital Storytelling through a Cervantine Lens”, which was published in September 2020 in Hispania (vol. 103, no. 2, pp. 323-39). … Continue reading
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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Tierra de mujeres (Land of Women) and the Myth of an “Empty Spain”
Somehow I only managed to write 4 blog posts in 2019; and with all the “end-of-the-year” reflections and round-ups going around, I started to feel like I hadn’t really accomplished much. But when I sat down to think about Jan-Dec … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Literature, Spain, Women
Tagged book review, books, city, culture, environment, Feminism, Maria Sanchez, pueblo, rural, spanish literature, study abroad
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1900s Madrid, in Narrative and a High-Resolution Map
This fall semester I’m teaching three literature classes at K-State, one of which is a seminar I based on a few of my past and current research projects related to early 20th-century Spanish literature. The texts are attentive to the … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature, Modernity, Spain
Tagged 1920s, books, Carmen de Burgos, digital humanities, La rampa, madrid, maps, modernity, novel, spanish literature
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