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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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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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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
A New History of Iberian Feminisms (review)
REVIEW: Bermúdez, Silvia and Roberta Johnson, eds.A New History of Iberian Feminisms. U of Toronto P, 2018. 522 pp. (My full-length, non-illustrated(!) review will be published with Feministas Unidas in 2018. I ‘ll link here when it’s available, or you … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, First-wave spanish feminism, Spain, Women
Tagged book review, books, Feminism, history, Spain, women's history
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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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