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Category Archives: Literature
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
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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A Century of Gastronomic Maps: From Ramón to Barcelona’s Feria to Iberica
As I’ve mentioned several times before, I’m very much a map nerd — I LOVE reading maps, finding creative interpretations of cities and spaces to display in my office (like my literary map of Madrid and my caricatured map of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature, Spain
Tagged Carmen de Burgos, culture, food, gastronomy, maps, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, travel
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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
Multiple Modernities: New essays on Carmen de Burgos (review)
Review: Anja Louis and Michelle M. Sharp, eds. Multiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist. Routledge, 2017. 224 pp. I recently finished writing a review of Anja Louis and Michelle Sharp’s new volume of essays on Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932), a … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, First-wave spanish feminism, Literature, Modernity, Spain, Women
Tagged book review, books, Carmen de Burgos, spanish literature
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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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