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Rebecca M. Bender, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish
Director of Graduate Studies
Director & Faculty Leader: Spain Today
Kansas State University
Department of Modern Languages
Manhattan, KS  66506
rmbender [at] ksu [dot] edu
Kansas State University – faculty page

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CV – Rebecca M Bender, PhD

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. Spanish Literature, The Pennsylvania State University

M.A., Spanish Literature, The University of New Mexico

B.A., Spanish
B.S., Secondary Education, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
K-12 Teaching Certification, State of Pennsylvania

(Select) PUBLICATIONS:

• 2024 “Introduction: From Scandal to Influencer to Activist: Carmen de Burgos, “Colombine” (1867-1932)”.  Appears in both of the below volumes, pp. vii-xxi. Read about the volumes.
• 2024 Co-editor of the translation, Divorce in Spain, and the new edition, El divorcio en España — (1) Influencers, Activists, and Women’s Rights. A Translation of Divorce in Spain, by Carmen de Burgos Seguí (“Colombine”). Translated by Slava Faybysh. Edited by Rebecca Bender. Modern Language Association, Texts and Translation series. — (2) Influencers, activistas, y los derechos de las mujeres. Una edición de Divorcio en España, de Carmen de Burgos Seguí (“Colombine”). Edited by Slava Faybysh & Rebecca Bender. Modern Language Association, Texts and Translation series.
• 2022  “First-Wave Fantasmas: The (In)visible Presence of Carmen de Burgos and Maruja Mallo in María Sánchez’s Tierra de mujeres (2019)”. Hispanic Studies Review, vol. 6, no. 2.
• 2021  “From Snaps to Maps: Using Literature, Mobile Applications, and Mapping Software to Design and Engaging L2 Curriculum.” Hispania, vol. 104, no. 4.
• 2020  “Snapping the Quijote: Examining L2 Literature, Social Media, and Digital Storytelling through a Cervantine Lens.” Hispania, vol. 103, no. 3 (Sept.). (Abstract and images here)
• 2017   “Fashion, Ekphrasis, and the Avant-Garde Novel: Carmen de Burgos’s La mujer fantástica (1924).” Ciberletras, vol. 39 (Dec.), n.p. http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v39/bender.htm>
  ***AWARD: Adela Zamudio Essay Prize, 2nd place, Best published essay of 2017, Feministas Unidas, September 2018.
• 2017    “Modernity and Madrid: The Gendered Urban Geography of Carmen de Burgos’s La rampa (1917). In Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience. Ed. Deborah Simonton. Routledge, pp. 130-41.
• 2016    “Theorizing a Hybrid Feminism: Motherhood in Margarita Nelken’s En torno a nosotras (1927).” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol. 93, no. 2, pp. 131-48)
• 2016    “The Body of Venus: From Eroticism to Maternality in José Díaz Fernández’s La Venus mecánica (1929). In Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy. Ed. Nicolás Fernández-Medina and Maria Truglio. Routledge, pp. 210-31

Book Reviews with companion blog posts:

• 2022 Mar Soria. Geographies of Urban Female Labor and Nationhood in Spanish Culture, 1880-1975. U Nebraska P, 2020. Feministas Unidas, Inc. FemUn Newsletter, 42.1, Spring, pp. 19-22.
  (illustrated and expanded as blog post: Geographies of Urban Female Labor and Nationhood in Spanish Culture (1880-1975) (review)
• 2019    Anja Louis and Michelle M. Sharp, eds. Multiple Modernities. Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist. Routledge, 2017. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Languages. Doi/Citation.
  (illustrated and expanded as blog post: Multiple Modernities: New essays on Carmen de Burgos (review)
• 2018     Silvia Bermúdez and Roberta Johnson, eds. A New History of Iberian Feminisms, Toronto U P,f 2018. (published in Feministas Unidas FemUn Newsletter, Fall 2018, vol. 38, no. 2. pp. 15-18:  http://feministas-unidas.org/ ).
  (illustrated and expanded as blog post: A New History of Iberian Feminisms (review)
• 2017    Francisca Vilches-de Frutos, ed. Las Cortes republicanas durante la Guerra Civil. Madrid 1936, Valencia 1937 y Barcelona 1938 by Matilde de la Torre. Madrid: Cátedra de Exilio, 2015. (published in Feministas Unidas’s FemUn Newsletter, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 28-31.
  (illustrated and expanded as blog post: Matilde de la Torre and the Republican Courts in 1930s Spain)

TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Kansas State University, Department of Modern Languages (Manhattan, KS)
2021-pres. Associate Professor of Spanish, with tenure
2022-2024 Interim Department Head
2016-2021 Assistant Professor of Spanish
2015-2016 Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish

Grinnell College, Department of Spanish (Grinnell, Iowa)
2013-2015 Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish (two-year appointment)

PRESENTATIONS (Select)

• 2026 “Anarcho-Feminist Motherhoods in Federica Montseny’s “Maternidad” (1926): Rethinking Feminist Genealogies in Spain.” Panel: Another Mother: Rethinking the Maternal in 20th Century Spanish Literature.” NeMLA Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, March 5-.8
• 2025 “Beyond the Classroom, Beyond Tourism: Interdisciplinary Student Research in Short-Term Study Abroad (Spain).” Co-presented, 50-minute interactive panel with undergraduate researchers: Ashley Taylor, Rachel Gilham, Laura Armbruster, and Emma Hamilton. Kansas World Language Association (KSWLA), Kansas State University. Nov. 7-8.
• 2024   Seminar: Maternidad en crisis: los desafíos de ser o no ser madre en la España contemporánea (Seminario). Co-organized with Dr. Katie Vater and Dr. Antonia Delgado-Poust. VI Jornadas ALCESXXI 2024, Santiago de Compostela. July 15-19.
• 2024 “Nuevos vínculos, antiguas narrativas: La maternidad en el arte y la literatura española entre los 1920s y los 2020s.” Genealogías y fantasmas: presencias y ausencias de lo materno en los productos culturales. Proyecto RITMOS, Ritmos del trabajo femenino en la historia del arte y la cultural visual. Estado español 1936-2022. Congreso Internacional, Las Madres No: Derivas de lo materno en las prácticas artísticas y culturales. Universidad del País Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz. Jul. 3-5.
• 2020    “Snapping and Mapping: Improving Critical Analysis and Increasing Student Engagement in the L2 Literature Classroom.” Midwest Association for Language Teaching Technology (MWALT) 2020 Conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Feb. 8.
• 2019    “Motherhood and the Urban Economy in Margarita Nelken’s La trampa del arenal (1923)”. Imaginarios económicos en la literatura y el cine de España y Latinoamérica. Sponsored by Lehman College (CUNY). Lehman College, Bronx, NY. April 5-6.