Faculty Profile
Angela DeLutis-Eichenberger
(she/her/hers)Associate Professor of Spanish (2010)
Contact Information
on sabbatical Fall 2023
Bosler Hall Room M10
717-245-1326
Bio
Professor DeLutis-Eichenberger earned her PhD from the University of Maryland in Spanish Language and Literature in 2010. Her research primarily focuses on the nineteenth century and the Southern Cone. Her work on Andrés Bello, José Victorino Lastarria and Alberto Blest Gana has appeared in Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Decimonónica, Open Cultural Studies, and as a chapter in the book, Negotiating Space in Latin America (edited by Patricia Vilches, Brill Publishers; winner of the 2020 “Outstanding Academic Title” Award from Choice Magazine). She is currently writing a book about Church-State relations in Chile during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Education
- B.A., B.S., Ithaca College, 2001
- M.A., University of Maryland-College Park, 2003
- Ph.D., 2010
2023-2024 Academic Year
Spring 2024
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 300 Analyzing (In)corporeality
Cross-listed with SPAN 380-02. This course examines representations of mutilated bodies, murder victims, zoologically displayed human bodies, possessed women, diabolical beatas, burned devotees, sexualized bodies, and revitalized spirits. These stem from an era when the republic wrestled with the consequences of Chile's political independence from Spain, the occupation or "pacification" of Araucanía, the sketching of boundaries between the Catholic Church and State, perceived clerical power vs. scientific and psychiatric advancement, acceptable societal roles and practices (particularly for women), and the move toward secularization. Along with excerpts from 19th-century newspapers and scathing anticlerical caricatures, texts from some of the most prominent authors of the era will be studied. These may include: José Victorino Lastarria, Alberto Blest Gana, José Raimundo Zisternas, Mercedes Marín del Solar, Daniel Barros Grez, Andrés Bello, Juan Rafael Allende, Pedro Ruiz Aldea, Rosario Orrego, and Ramón Pacheco. Whose bodies were being manipulated and how? Given the historical contexts in play, what deeper significations could such manipulations hold, especially in terms of (dis)possessions of power?
SPAN 380 Analyzing (In)corporeality
Cross-listed with LALC 300-01. This course examines representations of mutilated bodies, murder victims, zoologically displayed human bodies, possessed women, diabolical beatas, burned devotees, sexualized bodies, and revitalized spirits. These stem from an era when the republic wrestled with the consequences of Chile's political independence from Spain, the occupation or "pacification" of Araucanía, the sketching of boundaries between the Catholic Church and State, perceived clerical power vs. scientific and psychiatric advancement, acceptable societal roles and practices (particularly for women), and the move toward secularization. Along with excerpts from 19th-century newspapers and scathing anticlerical caricatures, texts from some of the most prominent authors of the era will be studied. These may include: José Victorino Lastarria, Alberto Blest Gana, José Raimundo Zisternas, Mercedes Marín del Solar, Daniel Barros Grez, Andrés Bello, Juan Rafael Allende, Pedro Ruiz Aldea, Rosario Orrego, and Ramón Pacheco. Whose bodies were being manipulated and how? Given the historical contexts in play, what deeper significations could such manipulations hold, especially in terms of (dis)possessions of power?