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Tag Archives: madrid
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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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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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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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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Women and the Avant-garde: Maruja Mallo’s “Verbenas” (Carnivals)
Lately I’ve been returning to the art and literature of the Spanish Avant-garde – the time period that sparked my interest in studying Spanish literary, art, and cultural history more in depth (roughly 1917-1930s). Since I received my copy of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Spain, Surrealism, Women
Tagged 1920s, art history, avant garde, gender, madrid, maruja mallo, modernity, Salvador Dali, spanish art, vanguardia, verbena
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Picasso’s “Guernica” and Aleixandre’s “Oda”: The Spanish Civil War in Art and Poetry
One of my favorite things to do when creating lesson plans and homework assignments is to find visuals that evoke the same themes or feelings as the literary text. When teaching poetry for example, I have found that images work … Continue reading
Posted in Art, History, Literature, Spain, Spanish Civil War
Tagged art, guernica, madrid, picasso, poetry, spanish art, spanish civil war, teaching, Vicente Aleixandre
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