Faculty
245.1288
Director of the Dickinson Semester/Year Málaga Program, 2007-09.
(Ph.D., Massachusetts). Associate Professor of Spanish.
Professor Aldrich is particularly interested in 20th century Spanish poetry, although his publications include both Peninsular and Spanish American subjects. He has also published literary translations.
BARTOSIK-VELEZ, Elise
On leave 2007-08
245.1844
(Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Assistant Professor of Spanish.
Professor Bartosik-Vélez studies Latin American literature, and is especially interested in comparative literature, comparative colonizations and nationalisms, and the cultural encounter between the Americas and Europe.
COPELAND, Eva
Bosler M12
254.8152
(Ph.D., SUNY-Stony Brook). Assistant Professor of Spanish.
Eva earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, specializing in the nineteenth-century Spanish peninular novel, gender, and cultural studies. Her interests include gender, medicine, and modernization in nineteenth-century Spain, as well as the links between body and nation in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century texts.
FROHLICH, Margaret
Bosler 123
245.1288
(Ph.D., Stony Brook University). Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish.
Margaret Frohlich earned her Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literature from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and received her B.A. in Spanish from The University of Colorado at Denver. She specializes in 20th century and contemporary narrative with a focus on the construction of national and sexual identities. She has published essays in Romance Review and La Jornada Literaria.
FOX, Carol
Bosler M02
245.1408
(Ph.D.,University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana). Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish.
Carol’s research has been primarily in the field of twentieth-century Spanish narrative. In addition, she has worked with Latin American literature and culture, service learning, and foreign language non-profit associations. She was Chair of Modern Languages at Arcadia University for twelve years, and was director of the University of Mississippi Summer Study Program in Salamanca, Spain, for five years. Most recently she was Executive Director of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese and President of the Federación Internacional de Asociaciones de Profesores de Español.
JARVIS, Grace CHAIR
Bosler 122
245.1739
(M.A., Missouri). Senior Lecturer in Spanish.
She teaches courses in Spanish language and intercultural communication. She has spent seven of the last ten years as Director of Dickinson's Fall-Full Year Program in MALAGA Spain. In addition to international administration, she has organized numerous cultural and literary symposia, and created an alliance between high school and college language teachers after directing the Commonwealth Partnernship Spanish Institute. Her interests in curriculum development, combining the practical with the liberal arts, have resulted in the development of internships in Málaga's full year program, as well as a new course offering in International Business and Management. Research interests are second language acquisition, intercultural communication, international management and bilingual education.
MARQUIS, Rebecca
Bosler 110
245.1766
(Ph.D., Indiana University). Assistant Professor of Spanish.
Her research and teaching explore 20th century Latin American prose and contemporary women’s writing from Spain and Latin America. Special interests include: women’s confessional writing, testimonio, autobiography, and literary representations of feminism, gender, and sexuality.
OVERSTREET, Mark
Bosler M09
254.8151
(Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Assistant Professor of Spanish.
Professor Overstreet''s research agenda is focused on input processing during reading. He is particularly interested in how learners process grammatical information during reading and how they use that information to develop their internal linguistic system. His work has examined the role of attention during second language acquisition, the factors involved in second language acquisition during reading, and the acquisition of tense and aspect in Spanish. He co-edited a book entitled "Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition". Recently, Professor Overstreet presented papers at the American Association for Applied Linguistics annual conferences and the European Second Language Association annual conference.s
PAST, Mariana
Bosler M10
245.1833
(Ph.D., Duke University). Assistant Professor of Spanish.
Mariana earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University, specializing in twentieth-century Spanish and Francophone Caribbean literature. Her current projects focus on Haitian-Dominican relations and representations of the Haitian Revolution in both literary and historical texts written in Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole. Her interests also include questions of migration/exile in Caribbean literature and influence vs. imitation in Latin American literature.
QUINTANAR, Abraham
Bosler 112
245.1884
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison). Assistant Professor of Spanish. Professor Quintanar's dissertation explores emotion in the female characters in the Occitan pastorelas, the Galician-Portuguese pastorelas, and the Old and Middle Spanish serranillas. His teaching interests include Medieval literature and culture, concentrating especially on the multi-cultural makeup of the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. His research concentrates on cognitive semantics as a linguistic tool for literary analysis. In addition, he has published two editions of Medieval texts with the Hispanic Seminary for Medieval Studies now located at the Hispanic Society in New York. As an editorial assistant, he has helped to develop fully searchable texts for the Ibero/American Electronic Text Series at the University of Wisconsin Library System (The texts comply with the Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange [TEI]), in which he also has published three electronic editions of fundamental Medieval Spanish texts. He is currently involved in developing fully searchable texts at a pedagogical level, and at the scholarly level. He continues doing research in the field of cognitive semantics, and has projected the publication of a book, an expanded version on his dissertation.
QUINTERO, Beatriz
Bosler M05
245.1874
(BA., University of Puerto Rico). Instructor in Spanish.
Professor Quintero's area of specialization is language instruction with an emphasis on Hispanic cultural diversity in the Caribbean, Spanish America, as well as Latino cultures of the United States. Her literary interests lie in Gabriel García Márquez's work.
RODRÍGUEZ, Alberto
Bosler 220
245.1278
(Ph.D., Brown). Associate Professor of Spanish.
Professor Alberto Rodríguez has written "La conversación en el Quijote: subdiálogo, memoria y asimetría" and co-edited "Cervantes en la Modernidad", a collection of essays written by distinguished cervantistas from around the world. Prof. Rodríguez has published various essays on Cervantes. He has published also on Enrique José Varona, José de Armas y Cárdenas, Jorge Mañach, Esteban Borrero Echeverría, William Prescott, Fray Luis de León, Alfonso Sastre. He has given lectures and presentations in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. Besides teaching courses in the Spanish Golden Age, Prof. Rodríguez has taught Latin American literature and Latino literature. He also teaches language courses at all levels.
SAGASTUME, Jorge
Bosler 126
245.1722
(Ph.D., Vanderbilt University). Assistant Professor of Spanish.
Jorge's main area of research is translation studies and Spanish American Contemporary Theatre, but he has also published and presented papers in conferences, nationally and abroad, on Spanish American writers outside this genre, such as Borges, Cortázar, Andahazi, Desnoes, Darío, Arenas and Garcés,among others. He has taught Spanish American Narrative, Modernismo y Vanguardia, Spanish American Culture and Civilization, Literary Criticism, Semiotics of Theatre and courses on the Philosophy of Language applied to literary criticism. Jorge is the author of Responsabilidad ética en la lectura del texto teatral (2007) and the following books in translation with scholarly studies: Michael Augustin's Un tal Koslowski y otras miniaturas surtidas (2005), Lyubomir Nikolov's Parábolas a medianoche (2006), and Sujata Bhatt's En busca de mi lengua (2006). He is also the founding editor of Sirena: Poetry, Art, and Criticism, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press for Dickinson College.
SMITH, Wendell
Bosler M11
245.1326
(Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin). Assistant Professor of Spanish
His primary scholarly interest lies in Spanish literature during the age of Spain's first national consolidation--the reign of Fernando and Isabel (1474-1504). His scholarly approach uses history, both political and social, to understand literature. Current projects include a series of papers on the Mediterranean projection of Spanish imperial ambitions, as found in books of chivalry.
TORRES DUQUE, Óscar
Bosler 320
245.1034
(Ph.D. , University of Iowa). Visiting Professor of Spanish.
Óscar comes to Dickinson College from Bates College, where he taught a variety of language and literature classes, including poetry with an interdisciplinary and transatlantic approach. His recent scholarly work deals mainly with Spanish and Spanish American poetry and transatlantic issues since the end of 19th century, and with the continuation of his main research on the idyllic model (post-pastoral) in Hispanic poetry during the 20th century. He published one introductory book on this topic (La poesía como idilio, 1992), an anthology of Colombian essayists (El mausoleo iluminado, 1997 and 1998), an essay on popular culture and iconography (El Divino Niño, 1998), and four poetry books. Other fields of research: Hispanic essay, aesthetic trends and confluences between Europe and Latin America in the 19th century, and the lyrical novel in Spanish America (end of the 19th and first half of the 20th century).
emeritus
FOX, Arturo
Emeritus Professor
MARTÍNEZ-VIDAL, Enrique
Emeritus Professor
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ZIZZI, Elizabeth 
Bosler 105
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