Faculty Profile
Eva Copeland
Professor of Spanish (2005)
Contact Information
Bosler Hall Room 122
717-254-8152
Bio
She teaches courses on the intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and national identity in 19th- to 21st-century Spanish cultural production. Her essays have appeared in journals such as Romance Quarterly, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades. Her article, "On Blackness and Belonging in Contemporary Spain: Desirée Bela-Lobedde's 'Ser mujer negra en España'" (Hispania, December 2022) received the 2023 AATSP Outstanding Scholarly Publication Award. Recent work includes "Afro-Spanish Countervisual Genealogies of Blackness in Rubén H. Bermudez's 'Y tú, ¿por qué eres negro?'" (Journal of the African Literature Association, fall 2024) and "La madre patria: Domesticity, Empire, and the Affective in Eva Canel's 'El agua turbia' (1899)" (Hispanic Review, spring 2025). She is writing a book on blackness and cultural memory in modern and contemporary Spain.
Education
- B.A., Colgate University, 1994
- M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1999
- Ph.D., 2004
2025-2026 Academic Year
Fall 2025
SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish
This course is a continuation of Spanish 102. The course focuses on all four langage skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking, with increasing emphasis on writing and speaking. Prerequisite: 102 or placement by department. This course fulfills the language graduation requirement.
LALC 390 Senior Research Seminar
Cross-listed with SPAN 401-01. Permission of Instructor Required.
SPAN 401 Senior Research Seminar
Cross-listed with LALC 390-01. Permission of Instructor Required.
Spring 2026
SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II
The primary goal of this course is to develop students' formal knowledge of Spanish by reviewing and studying the more challenging grammatical structures. The course will also work on development of skills in reading, oral expression, and vocabulary development. The purpose of the course is to equip students with the formal grammatical background necessary to be successful in courses on Hispanic literatures, linguistics and cultures. Prerequisite: 201 or the equivalent.
SPAN 380 Lxs otrxs: Reading the "Other"
What does it mean to be considered "other" in modern and contemporary Spain? "Otherness" is often read as difference, which usually includes but is not limited to intersecting identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationality, language, and immigration status. We will examine the ways novels, short stories, and memoirs construct notions of cultural and national identity while also considering how difference is represented. To do this, we will focus on two different time periods and their historical and cultural contexts. We will read the work of late nineteenth-century Spanish authors who wrote about emigration to the Americas and explore the representation of alterity in these texts. During the second half of the semester, we will read contemporary Spanish texts with immigration and the so-called second generation experience as a theme. This class includes texts by contemporary authors that are part of marginalized and minority groups in Spain.