Curriculum Vitae


Akiko Tsuchiya                                                                                                                                721 Cordell Ct.
Department of Romance Languages & Literatures                                                                           Olivette, MO  63132
Washington University                                                                                                                     (314) 569-3288
Campus Box 1077, One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO  63130-4899
(314) 935-5213/935-5175
e-mail: tsuchiya@wustl.edu
                
EMPLOYMENT:

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Washington University (St. Louis); Associate Professor of Spanish, July 1995- present (tenure granted July 1, 1995); Assistant Professor of Spanish, August 1992-June 1995.

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University, Assistant Professor of Spanish, August 1987- May 1992.

EDUCATION AND DEGREES:

Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures, Cornell University, May 1988.
M.A. in Hispanic Literatures, Stanford University,  June 1983.
B.A. in Spanish, magna cum laude, Cornell University, May 1981.  Academic distinction in all subjects.

DISSERTATION:

"Images of the Sign:  Semiotic Consciousness in the Novels of Galdós."  Director:  John W. Kronik.

HONORS, AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:

Graduate Student Senate’s Certificate of Special Recognition for Excellence in Mentoring, 2007
Sage Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University, 1985-86.
Summer Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University, 1985 and 1986.
Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 1981-82; Predoctoral Fellowship, 1984-85.
Phi Beta Kappa, Cornell University, 1981.
J. G. White Award for Excellence in Spanish, Cornell University, 1981.

RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

Fellow of the Center for the Humanities, Washington University (chosen for Spring 2007 Semester).

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities, 2002, research grant for project: “Gender and Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Spain” ($1,760).

Faculty Research Grant, Washington University, Summer 1998 ($5,000), Summer 2000 ($5,000), Summer 2003 ($4,000), Summer 2005 ($4,000).

National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for University Teachers, 1994-95 ($30,000).

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1990 ($3,500).

Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities, 1990, toward publication of Images of the Sign ($5,000).

Purdue Research Foundation XL Summer Faculty Grant, 1989 ($4,000); 1991 ($5,000).

PUBLICATIONS:

Book:

Images of the Sign:  Semiotic Consciousness in the Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós, University of Missouri Press, 1990.

Reviewed by:  

Diane Urey, Anales Galdosianos 27-28 (1992-93): 220-23.
James Whiston, Romance Quarterly 41:1  (Winter 1994): 51-52.
Gilbert Smith, South Atlantic Review 57:3 (September 1992): 144-47.
Vernon Chamberlin, South Central Review 9:2 (Summer 1992).
Wifredo de Rafols, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 26:2 (May 1992): 303-04.
Mary S. Vásquez, Rocky Mountain Review 46: 1-2 (1992): 104-06.
Beth Wietelmann Bauer, MLN 107 (March 1992): 412-15.
Nina Molinaro, Modern Fiction Studies 37:2 (Summer 1991): 329-30.

Book Chapters:

“Deseo y desviación sexual en la nueva sociedad de consumo: la lectura femenina en La tribuna de Emilia Pardo Bazán.” La mujer de letras o la letraherida: textos y representaciones del discurso médico-social y cultural sobre la mujer escritora en el siglo XIX (forthcoming).

“Repetition, Remembrance, and the Construction of Subjectivity in the Works of Cristina Fernández Cubas,” Mapping the Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas, ed. Kathleen Glenn and Janet Pérez (Newark, DE:  U of Delaware P, 2005), 99-117.

"Women and Fiction in Post-Franco Spain," The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel: From 1800 to the Present, ed. Harriet Turner and Adelaida López de Martínez (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), 212-30.

"Gender, Sexuality, and the Literary Market in Spain at the End of the Millennium," Women's Narrative and Film in Twentieth-Century Spain: A World of Difference(s), ed. Ofelia Ferrán and Kathleen Glenn (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), 238-55.  

"La anarquía sexual: el adulterio femenino como metáfora de la crisis finisecular en Realidad de Galdós," Homenaje a Alfonso Armas Ayala (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria, 2000), 789-801.   

"Seducción y simulación en Una primavera per a Domenico Guarini de Carme Riera," El espejo y la máscara:  ensayos críticos sobre la trayectoria narrativa de Carme Riera veinticinco años después de "Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora," ed. Luisa Cotoner (Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, 2000), 51-72.

"Seduction and Simulation in Carme Riera's Una primavera per a Domenico Guarini," Moveable Margins:  The Narrative Art of Carme Riera, ed. Kathleen M. Glenn, Mirella Servodidio and Mary S. Vásquez (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1999), 83-103.

"The Female Body Under Surveillance: Galdós's La desheredada," Intertextual Pursuits: Literary Mediations in Modern Spanish Narrative, ed. Jeanne P. Brownlow and John W. Kronik (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1998), 201-21.

"'Las Micaelas por fuera y por dentro':  Discipline and Resistance in Fortunata y Jacinta," A Sesquicentennial Tribute to Galdós 1843/1993, ed. Linda M. Willem (Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 1993), 56-71.

Articles:

“Talk, Small and Not So Small: The Power of Gossip in Clarín’s La Regenta,” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (forthcoming).

“The ‘New’ Female Subject and the Commodification of Gender in the Works of Lucía Etxebarria,” Romance Studies 20 (2002): 77-87.

"Taming the Deviant Body: Representations of the Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Spain," Anales Galdosianos 36 (2001): 255-67.  

"Discourse and the Strategies of Power in Carme Riera's En el último azul: A Cultural Analysis of the Inquisition," Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin-American Studies 7 (2001): 77-84.  

"Peripheral Subjects: Policing Deviance and Disorder in Nazarín and Halma," Letras Peninsulares 13 (2000):  197-208.  Special issue on "Toward a Poetics of Realism," ed. Harriet Turner.

"Family Plots and Romances: Discourses of Desire in Adelaida García Morales's Narrative Fiction,"  Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 76 (1999): 91-108.

"Reflections on Historiography in Montserrat Roig's L'hora violeta," Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 2 (1998): 163-74.

"On the Margins of Subjectivity:  Sex, Gender and the Body in Galdós's Lo prohibido," Revista Hispánica Moderna 50 (1997): 280-89.

"Tarascas, amazonas y mujeres endemoniadas: representaciones de la marginalidad femenina en Nazarín," Insula 561 (1993): 17, 21.

"The Construction of the Female Body in Galdós's La de Bringas," Romance Quarterly 40 (1993): 35-47.

"Theorizing the Feminine:  Esther Tusquets's El mismo mar de todos los veranos and Hélène Cixous's écriture féminine," Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 26 (1992): 183-99.

"The Paradox of Narrative Seduction in Carmen Riera's Cuestión de amor propio," Hispania 75 (May 1992): 281-86.

"Language, Desire, and the Feminine Riddle in Soledad Puértolas's 'La indiferencia de Eva'," Revista de Estudios Hispánicos  25 (1991): 69-79.

"Montserrat Roig's La ópera cotidiana as Historiographic Metafiction," Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 15 (1990): 145-59.

"Recent Critical Theory and the Re-vision of the Galdós Canon," Anales Galdosianos 25 (1990): 125-28.

"La  incógnita and the Enigma of Writing:  Manolo Infante's Interpretive Struggle," Hispanic Review 57 (1989): 335-56.

"The Struggle for Autonomy in Galdós's Tristana," MLN 104 (1989): 330-50.

"History as Language in the First Series of the Episodios Nacionales:  The Literary Self-Creation of Gabriel de Araceli," Anales Galdosianos 23 (1988): 11-25.  Winner of the Kercheville Prize for the Best Essay in the Volume.

"Maxi and the Signs of Madness:  Reading as Creation in Fortunata y Jacinta," Hispanic Review 56 (1988): 53-71.

Conference Proceedings:

“Género y feminismo en las obras galdosianas de los años ’90: para una nueva contextualización del debate” (Plenaria), Actas del VIII Congreso Internacional Galdosiano (2005) (in press).  

“La construcción de la subjetividad lésbica en ‘Las virtudes peligrosas’ de Ana María Moix,” Género y géneros: escritura y escritoras iberoamericanas.  Ed. Angeles Encinar, Eva Löfquist y Carmen Valcárcel.  Vol. 1.  Madrid: Ediciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2006.  337-47.

"Las aportaciones de la crítica feminista al galdosismo: pasado, presente y futuro," Actas del VII Congreso Internacional Galdosiano (2001):  Galdós y la escritura de la modernidad.  Ed. Yolanda Arencibia et al.  Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Cabildo de Gran Canaria, 2004.

"El adulterio y el deseo homosocial en Realidad de Galdós," Actas del XIII  Congreso de la  Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas.  Ed. Florencio Sevilla Arroyo & Carlos Alvar.  Madrid: Castalia, 2000.  

"El estado actual del galdosismo norteamericano:  reflexiones metacríticas," Actas del VI Congreso Internacional Galdosiano (1997).  Ed. Yolanda Arencibia et al.  Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Cabildo de Gran Canaria, 2000.

Review Article:

"Discourses on Gender and the Question of 'Woman's' Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain," Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 1 (2000): 89-97.

Book Reviews:

DuPont, Denise.  Realism as Resistance: Romanticism and Authorship in Galdós, Clarín, and Baroja.  Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2006.  250 pp.  Rev. for Revista Hispánica Moderna (in press).
 
Charnon-Deutsch, Lou.  The Spanish Gypsy: The History of a European Obsession.  University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State UP, 2004.  287 pp.  Rev. for Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 7 (2006): 93-95.  

Ríos-Font, Wadda.  The Canon and the Archive: Configuring Literature in Modern Spain.  Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2004.  275 pages.  Rev. for Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 39 (2005): 431-33.

Willem, Linda.  Galdós's Segunda Manera: Rhetorical Strategies and Affective Response.  Chapel Hill: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 1998.  200 pages.  Rev. for Romance Quarterly 49 (2002): 313-15.  

Fernández, Pura, ed.  ¿Loco o delincuente? Novela social contemporánea (1890).  Madrid: Celeste Ediciones, 2001.  292 pages.  Rev. for Anales Galdosianos  37 (2002): 212-14.

Rodríguez, María Pilar.  Vidas im/propias: Transformaciones del sujeto femenino en la narrativa española contemporánea.  West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2000.  222 pages. Rev. for Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 35 (2001): 440-42.

Charnon-Deutsch, Lou.  Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press.  University Park: The Pennsylvania State UP, 2000.  307 pages.  Rev. for Anales Galdosianos 35 (2000): 150-52.

Fernández Cubas, Cristina.  Hermanas de sangre.  Barcelona: Tusquets, 1998.  140 pages.  Rev. for Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 3 (1999): 283-84.

Vilarós, Teresa.  Galdós: invención de la mujer y poética de la sexualidad:  Lectura parcial de Fortunata y Jacinta.  Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1995.  174 pages.  Rev. for Letras Femeninas.  

Jagoe, Catherine.  Ambiguous Angels: Gender in the Novels of Galdós.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.  236 pages.  Rev. for Anales Galdosianos  29-30 (1994-95): 179-81.

Sieburth, Stephanie.  Inventing High and Low: Literature, Mass Culture, and Uneven Modernity in Spain.  Durham: Duke UP, 1994.  280 pages.  Rev. for Hispanic Review 64 (1996): 405-07.

Charnon-Deutsch, Lou.  Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women.  University Park:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.  223 pages.  Rev. for Hispanic Review 64 (1996): 118-20.

Turner, Harriet S.  Fortunata and Jacinta.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.  122 pages.  Rev. for Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 28 (1994): 134-36.

Dendle, Brian J.  Galdós y  la novela histórica.  Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, 1992.  106 pages.  Rev. for Anales Galdosianos 27-28 (1992-93): 240-41.

Molinaro, Nina L.  Foucault, Feminism, and Power: Reading Esther Tusquets.  Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1991.  126 pages.  Rev. for Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 27 (1993): 158-59.

Sotelo, Marisa.   Angel Guerra de Benito Pérez Galdós y sus críticos (1891).  Barcelona: PPU, 1990.  162 pages.    Rev. for Hispanic Review 61 (1993): 110-12.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES:

“Inversión sexual y masculinidades en disputa: Memorias de un solterón de Emilia Pardo Bazán,” XVI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (Paris), July 2007.

“Deseo y desviación sexual en la nueva sociedad de consumo: la lectura femenina en La tribuna de Emilia Pardo Bazán,” La mujer de letras o la letraherida: textos y representaciones del discurso médico-social y cultural sobre la mujer escritora en el siglo XIX (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid), December 2006.  By invitation.

“Subjective Spaces/Objective Places: Gender Norms and the ‘Real’ in Galdós’s Work,” Modern Language Association Convention (Washington D.C.), December 2005.  By invitation.

“Género y feminismo en las obras galdosianas de los años ’90: para una nueva contextualización del debate,” Keynote Lecture, 8º Congreso Internacional Galdosiano (Las Palmas, Canary Islands), June 2005.  By invitation.

“La construcción de la subjetividad lésbica en ‘Las virtudes peligrosas’ de Ana María Moix,” “Género y Géneros: Escritura y Escritoras Iberoamericanas,” organized by St. Louis University  (Madrid Campus), May 2004.

“The Birth of the Delinquent: Galdós and the Discourses of Crime in Nineteenth-Century Spain,” Modern Language Association Convention (San Diego, CA), December 2003.

“Gender and Delinquency in Nineteenth-Century Spain,”  State of the Arts: Hispanic Cultural Studies,  organized by the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), September 2002.

“Talk, Small and Not So Small: The Power of Gossip in Clarín’s La Regenta,” Instituto Cervantes (Chicago), November 2001.  By invitation.

"Las aportaciones de la crítica feminista al galdosismo: pasado, presente y futuro," in a Seminar entitled "Los estudios hispanísticos sobre Galdós y su época: continuidades y diferencias," 7º Congreso Internacional Galdosiano (Las Palmas, Canary Islands), March 2001.  By invitation.

"Peripheral Subjects: Policing Deviance and Disorder in Galdós's Nazarín and Halma," Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University, February 2001.  By invitation.

"Gender, Sexuality, and the Literary Market in Spain at the End of the Millennium," Modern Language Association Convention (Washington D.C.), December 2000.

"The 'New' Female Subject and the Commodification of Gender in the Works of Lucía Etxebarría," A Spanish Odyssey: One Thousand Years of Iberian Literature and Culture, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque), February 2000.

"Peripheral Subjects: Policing Deviance and Disorder in Nazarín and Halma," Modern Language Association Convention (Chicago), December 1999.

"Taming the Deviant Body:  Representations of the Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Spain,"  Department of Hispanic Studies, Northwestern University, October 1999.  By invitation.

"Deviant Bodies and Disciplinary Power: Representations of the Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Texts," Midwest Modern Language Association Convention (St. Louis), November 1998.

"El adulterio y el deseo homosocial en Realidad de Galdós," XIII Congreso de la  Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (Madrid, Spain), July 1998.

"Discourse and the Strategies of Power in Carme Riera's En el último azul," The Poesis of Politics and the Politics of Poesis: Symposium on Peninsular Spanish Literature and Language, University of Missouri (Columbia, MO), March 1998.

"El estado actual del galdosismo norteamericano:  reflexiones metacríticas," 6º Congreso Internacional Galdosiano (Las Palmas, Canary Islands), June 1997.  By invitation.

"Gender and National Identity in Montserrat Roig's L'hora violeta," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Lexington, KY), April 1997.

"On the Margins of Subjectivity:  Sex, Gender, and the Body in Galdós's Lo prohibido," Midwest Modern Language Association Convention (Minneapolis), November 1996.

"The Phantom of Francoist Culture and the Hermeneutics of Desire in Adelaida García Morales's La lógica del vampiro," Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature (Lincoln, NE), September 1996.  

"Reading the Female Body:  Discourses of Desire and Discipline in La desheredada," Modern Language Association Convention (San Diego), December 1994.

"Contemporary Spanish Women Writers and the Challenge of Feminist Theory," Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature (Lawrence, KS), September 1994.

"Family Plots and Romances:  Discourses of Desire in Adelaida García Morales's Novellas," Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana and Department of Foreign Languages, Illinois Wesleyan University, April 1994.  By invitation.

"Family Secrets, Phantoms and Narrative Desire in Adelaida García Morales's El Sur," Eleventh Annual Wichita State University International Conference on Foreign Literature (Wichita, KS), April 1994.

"Self, Other, and the Problematics of Sexual Identity in Two Short Stories by Cristina Fernández Cubas," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Lexington, KY), April 1993.  

"Fantastic Subversions:  Cristina Fernández Cubas and the (De)Construction of the Subject," Asamblea General de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (Ithaca, New York), October 1992.

"Esther Tusquets and the Problematics of 'Woman’s Writing'," Department of Spanish, Emory University, December 1991.  By invitation.  I was also invited by Professor Carlos Alonso to give a presentation for his graduate seminar on critical theory at Emory University.

"Theorizing the Feminine:  Esther Tusquets's El mismo mar de todos los veranos and Hélène Cixous's écriture féminine," Midwest Modern Language Association Convention (Chicago), November 1991.

"The Construction of the Female Body  in La de Bringas," Modern Language Association Convention (Chicago), December 1990.

"Language, Desire, and the Feminine Riddle in Soledad Puértolas's 'La indiferencia de Eva'," Department of Spanish and Classics, University of California (Davis), March 1990 .

Panelist, "Questioning the Galdós Canon," Modern Language Association Convention (Washington, D.C.), December 1989.  By invitation.

"Woman as Writer and Text in Montserrat Roig's La ópera cotidiana," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Lexington, KY), April 1989.

"Writing as Self-Creation in Galdós's La corte de Carlos IV," Third Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (New York City), September 1988.

"The Struggle for Autonomy in Galdós's Tristana," Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (Denver), August 1988.

"La incógnita and the Enigma of Writing," Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (Providence),  March 1988.

"Reading as Creation in Fortunata y Jacinta," Modern Language Association Convention (New York City), December 1986.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Respondent, “Khronic Mediations in Modern Critical Discourse: John W. Kronik’s Legacy to Hispanism and Beyond,” Modern Language Association Convention (Philadelphia), 2006.  By invitation.

Organizer, Chair, and Respondent, Special session on “The Other Side of the Canon: Women and Gender  in the Popular Imagination of Nineteenth-Century Spain,” Midwest Modern Language Association Convention (St. Louis), November 2004.
 
Co-organizer (with Priscilla Meléndez, Pennsylvania State University), Homenaje in Honor of John W. Kronik, held at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Lexington), April 2002.  

Organizer and Chair , "Mapping Galdós" and "Deviance and Social Control in Galdós,"  Modern Language Association Convention (Chicago), December 1999.

Organizer and Chair, "Constructing Identities: Subject Formation in Galdós," Modern Language Association Convention (San Francisco), December 1998.

Respondent, "Reconsidering Postcolonialism," Symposium hosted by the Committee on Comparative Literature at Washington University, September 1995.  By invitation.

Respondent,  "Peninsular Hispanism in the U.S. and in Spain:  ¿Diálogo de sordos?," "Future Directions for the Study of Modern Spanish Literature," Symposium hosted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University, April 1995.  By invitation.

Discussant, "Literary Theory and Hispanic Criticism: Interdisciplinarity in Hispanic Studies," Midwest Modern Language Association Convention (Chicago), November 1994.  By invitation.

Chair, "Spanish II:  Peninsular Literature After 1700:  Oppositional Discourses in Peninsular Literature After 1700," Midwest Modern Language Association Convention (Minneapolis), November 1993.

Chair, "Galdós" and "Contemporary Spanish Women's Fiction," Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature (St. Louis), October 1993.

Coordinator, "Constructions of Gender in Galdós's Novels," session sponsored by Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas, Midwest Modern Language Association Convention (St. Louis), November 1992.

Participant in 15th Summer Session of the School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, June 17-July 26, 1991.  I participated in a seminar entitled “Aesthetic Fetishism:  Postmodern Notions of Literature, Architecture and the Visual Arts,” led by Professor Wendy Steiner.  I also attended two 2-week courses taught by Teresa de Lauretis and Terry Eagleton.  

Organizer and Chair, "Contemporary Spanish Women's Fiction," Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film, October 1991.

Chair, “Twentieth-century Spanish Narrative,” Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film, October 1990.

Organizer, “Language, Gender, and Sexuality in Galdós’s Novels” and “Galdós and History,” Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film, October 1990.

Organizer and Chair, "Galdós and the Modern Reader," Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film, October 1989.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Book-in-progress:  “Gender and Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Spain":  Drawing on recent developments in feminist and cultural studies, this study examines the cultural meanings and anxieties behind representations of gender deviance in late nineteenth-century Spain.  A wide range of texts, including literary fiction, periodical literature, ballads, and other forms of popular cultural representation are analyzed in relation to discourses of medicine, psychiatry, and criminal anthropology that shaped notions of gender  normativity (and deviance) during this period.

RESEARCH  INTERESTS:

Benito Pérez Galdós
Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Culture
Contemporary Spanish Women's Fiction
Feminist and Gender Studies

TEACHING INTERESTS:

Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Culture
Contemporary Spanish Women’s Fiction
International Women’s Literature
Feminist and Gender Studies

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Graduate Courses:

Washington University:
Spanish 5191:  Urban Spaces, Gendered Places: Women, City, and Modernity in Late 19th- and Turn-of-the-Century Spain
Spanish 5161:  Poetics and Politics of Representation in 19th-Century Spanish Realism
Spanish 516:  Feminism and Women's Writings in 19th-  and 20th-Century Spain
Spanish 516:  The Body in 19th-Century Spanish Literature
Spanish 514: Contemporary Spanish Women's Fiction
Spanish 482:  Topics in 19th-Century Spanish Cultural Studies: Deviance and Social Control in 19th-Century Spain
Spanish 487: Discourses on Gender in 19th- and 20th-Century Spain
Spanish 458:  Gender, Politics, and Writing in Women’s Fiction of the Post-Franco Era
Spanish 472: 19th-Century Spanish Fiction
Women's Studies 419:  Feminist Literary Theory (Interdisciplinary Course)

Purdue University:
Spanish / Women's Studies 640: Seminar in Spanish Prose: Gender and Representation in 19th- and 20th- Century Spanish Fiction
Spanish 606: Bibliography and Literary Criticism (Introduction to Literary Theory)
Spanish / Women’s Studies 583: Women in Hispanic Literature
Spanish 544: Spanish Literature of the 20th Century
Spanish 534: Spanish Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Spanish 601: First Course to Establish Reading Knowledge in Spanish

Undergraduate Courses:

Washington University:
Spanish 245/Women’s Studies 253:  Women’s Fiction in Contemporary Spain (Interdisciplinary Course)
Women's Studies 319:  Contemporary Women Writers in an International Context (Interdisciplinary Course)
Spanish 405:  Women, Desire, and Transgression in 19th-Century Spanish Fiction (Senior Seminar)
Spanish 405:  Contemporary Spanish Women Writers (Senior Seminar)
Spanish 334C:  Spanish Literature II (19th- and 20th-Century Spanish Literature)
Spanish 330C:  Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Literature
Spanish 308D:  Grammar and Composition II
Spanish 307D:  Grammar and Composition I

Purdue University:
FLL/Women's Studies 239:  Contemporary Foreign Women Writers in Translation
Spanish 241: Introduction to Hispanic Literature
Spanish 270: Peninsular Literature in Translation
Spanish 261: Spanish Composition
Spanish 204: Fourth-Semester Spanish Language
Spanish 204: Intensive Fourth-Semester Spanish Language, Summer Session

Cornell University:
Introduction to Hispanic Literature, Cornell University, 2 semesters

Stanford University:
First-Quarter Spanish Language, Stanford University, 1 quarter
Second-Quarter Spanish Language, Stanford University, 3 quarters
Third-Quarter Spanish Language, Stanford University, 2 quarters

Thesis Direction and Exam Committees (Washington University):

Director of Doctoral Dissertation:

Kathy Korcheck (Hispanic Literature, 2007), “Postmemory and Gender in Contemporary Spain: Intergenerational Dialogues on the Spanish Civil War”

María Yazmina Moreno (Hispanic Literature, 2007), “Utopía, deseo, consumismo: Tres interpretaciones de lo queer en la literatura y el cine posfranquistas”

Member of Dissertation Committee:

Lee Friederich (Ph.D. candidate in Japanese and Comparative Literature), “In the Voice of Men, Beasts and Gods: Unmasking the Abject Persona in Postwar and Contemporary Japanese Women’s Poetry” (in progress)

Soledad Forcadell (Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Literature), “La villa en el arte argentino” (in progress)

Francisco Leal (Hispanic Literature, 2007), “Ficciones de la postdictadura chilena”

Jing  Zhang (Chinese and Comparative Literature, 2006), “Playing with Desire: Reading Short Vernacular Fiction in 16th- and 17th-Century China”

Gloria Medina (Hispanic Literature, 2003), “Memoria y trauma en la narrativa de tres escritoras del Cono Sur: Marta Traba, Cristina Peri Rossi y Diamela Eltit”

Sarah Pogell (English, 2001), “‘A Good Many Shrewd Knocks’: The Faces of Depression in the Life and Art of Virginia Woolf”

Megan Ferry (Chinese and Comparative Literature, 1998), “Chinese Women Writers of the 1930s and Their Critical Reception”

Master’s Thesis Committee:

D.J. Kaiser (Performing Arts and Comparative Literature, 2007), “Reclaiming Nationalism: (Mis)translations of Àngel Guimerà’s Terra Baixa”

Committee Member for Ph.D. Exam (external):

Michael Murphy (Art History and Gender Studies)
Vicki Rapti (Comparative Literature)

Director of Senior Honor's Theses:  

Patrick Garlinger (1993-94)
Marianne Milligan (1993-94), co-directed with María Inés Lagos

DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

Washington University:

Department of Romance Languages & Literatures:

Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish, 2004-06.
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Spanish, 1995-98.
Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee in Spanish, 1996-97.
Chair, Conversation Curriculum Subcommittee, 1996-97.
Coordinator of Spanish Composition Courses (307-308), 1998-2001.
Coordinator of Spanish Conversation Courses (215, 216, 319, 320), 1992-94.
Co-coordinator, Spanish Day, Spring 2000.
Organizing Committee, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, 1992-93, 2001-02.
Program Committee, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, 2002.  
Graduate Committee (Spanish), 1993-94, 1995-96, 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2003-04.
Graduate Curriculum Committee (Spanish), Chair, 1999-2000.
Departmental Search Committees:  Chair, modern Peninsular position, 2002-2003; Open-rank Peninsular position, 2001-2002; tenure-track position in Second Language Acquisition, 1998-1999,1999-2000 (member of the MLA  Interviewing Committee,1998 & 1999); tenure-track position in Spanish-American colonial literature, 1997-1998 (member of the MLA Interviewing Committee, 1997).
Organizer of visits by the following speakers:  Carme Riera, Jo Labanyi, Luisa Elena Delgado, Susan Martin-Márquez; speakers for the roundtable on nationalisms for the 2002 Mid-America Conference; Lou Charnon-Deutsch.   
Member of departmental committee to revise guidelines for junior faculty evaluation.

University and Extra-Departmental Committees and Service:

Faculty Search Committee, Program in Comparative Literature, 2007-08.
Graduate Council, 2005-06.
Teaching and Professional Development Committee, Graduate Council, 2005-06.
Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2005-08.
Faculty Discussion Leader, Freshman Reading Program, Fall 2005.
Panelist, Arts & Sciences Orientation for International Graduate Students, Fall 2004 & Fall 2005.
Committee on Workplace Issues, Association of Women Faculty, 2003-04.
Convener, Women’s Studies Cluster on "Beyond Borders: Women Writing the World,” 2002-.
Councillor-at-Large, Executive Board of Association of Women Faculty, 2000-01, 2001-02.
Chair, Family Responsive Policies Committee, Association of Women Faculty, 2001-2002.
Chair, Nominating Committee, Association of Women Faculty, 1997-98, 2000-2001.
Graduate Awards Committee, Association of Women Faculty, 2001.  
Graduate Admissions Committee, Program in Comparative Literature, 2000.
Library Council, 2000-2002.

Purdue University:

Department of Foreign Languages:

Undergraduate Committee, 1991-92.
Department Representative for the Dean's Freshman Scholar Program, 1991-92.
Graduate Language Examiner in Spanish, 1987-91.
Spanish-American Literature Faculty Search Committee, 1990-91.
French Literature Faculty Search Committee, 1990-91.
Spanish Linguistics Faculty Search Committee, 1987-88.
Japanese Faculty Search Committee, 1987-88.
Lectures Committee, 1989-90.
Organizer of Spanish "Tertulia," 1988-89.
Major Professor for Ivelise Faundez, M.A. student in Comparative Literature.
Committee member for  M.A. students in Spanish:  Elizabeth Duda, Katrina Goff, Steve Gregory, Mary Ilu Altman, Christine Taff (1987-92).

Women's Studies Program:
Women’s Studies Steering Committee, 1990-92.
Women’s Studies Faculty Search Committee, 1990-91.
Undergraduate Curriculum Development Committee, 1991-92.

Comparative Literature Program:
Steering Committee for the Comparative Literature Program, 1991-92.
Advisor for Graduate Students in Comparative Literature (with specialization in Spanish), 1991-92.

School /University Service:
University Grade Appeals Committee, Alternate, 1991- 92.
Mentor for Minority Freshman, 1989-90.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Editorial Positions:

Peninsular Editor, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (Fall 2002-present).

Book Review Editor in Spanish:  Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (1995- 2004).

Editorial Board Member:  Anales Galdosianos (2007-); Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (1992- 2002); Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (1993-present ).

Associate Editor:   Romance Languages Annual (1989-92).

Consultant Reader:  PMLA , Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies; Anales Galdosianos, Hispanic Review, Letras Femeninas, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Novel: A Forum on Fiction.

Member of Faculty Advisory Board, Theatron (performing arts journal published by Washington University graduate students).

Reviewer for Academic Presses:

Cambridge University Press
University of Missouri Press
University of North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures
Vanderbilt University Press

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Modern Language Association
Midwest Modern Language Association
Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (Executive Committee Member, 1998-2001)
Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas
Sociedad de Literatura Española del Siglo XIX

LANGUAGES:

Spanish:  reading, writing, and speaking ability
Catalan and French: reading knowledge
Japanese:  basic speaking ability

FOREIGN STUDY:

Summer Program in Spain (Madrid), University of California, San Diego, June-August 1979
Pre-dissertation study in Spain on Predoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University, February-May 1985
Summer Course in Intensive Catalan, Escola Oficial d'Idiomes de Barcelona, July 1989 and July 1990

Updated 9/2007