Faculty Profile
Elise Bartosik-Velez
Professor of Spanish (2003)
Contact Information
Bosler Hall Room 203
717-245-1844
Bio
Professor Bartosik-Vélez received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Illinois. She teaches students about Latin American history and literature, focusing in particular on the colonial period through independence. She also teaches courses that compare British America and Spanish America in the early modern period. Her research interests include: intellectual history, the history of empire, the legacy of the classical world in the Americas, and the economic, political, and cultural entanglements of early modern empires.
Education
- B.A., University of California at San Diego, 1987
- Masters in Pacific International Affairs, University of California at San Diego, 1990
- M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997
- Ph.D., 2003
2024-2025 Academic Year
Fall 2024
FYSM 100 First-Year Seminar
The First-Year Seminar (FYS) introduces students to Dickinson as a "community of inquiry" by developing habits of mind essential to liberal learning. Through the study of a compelling issue or broad topic chosen by their faculty member, students will:
- Critically analyze information and ideas
- Examine issues from multiple perspectives
- Discuss, debate and defend ideas, including one's own views, with clarity and reason
- Develop discernment, facility and ethical responsibility in using information, and
- Create clear academic writing
The small group seminar format of this course promotes discussion and interaction among students and their professor. In addition, the professor serves as students' initial academic advisor. This course does not duplicate in content any other course in the curriculum and may not be used to fulfill any other 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 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 300 Entanglements in Col Americas
Cross-listed with SPAN 380-02. This course encourages students to rethink the traditional nation-centric narratives of colonial British and Spanish American history, according to which the histories and literatures of the two regions developed separately and rarely overlapped. Instead, we will learn the extent to which these histories were entangled. Students will read both historical and literary texts as we explore how peoples of the Early Americas navigated fluid environments in which multilingual and multicultural experiences helped constitute complex intersectional personal and regional identities. This course ultimately asks students to consider what it meant to be "American" in such dynamic zones of exchange. It will be taught in English. Readings will be in both English and Spanish; English translations of Spanish texts will be provided for students taking the course for credit in English. These students will submit written work in English. Students wanting credit for Spanish are expected to read the Spanish originals and required to submit written work in Spanish.
SPAN 380 Entanglements in Col Americas
Cross-listed with LALC 300-01. This course encourages students to rethink the traditional nation-centric narratives of colonial British and Spanish American history, according to which the histories and literatures of the two regions developed separately and rarely overlapped. Instead, we will learn the extent to which these histories were entangled. Students will read both historical and literary texts as we explore how peoples of the Early Americas navigated fluid environments in which multilingual and multicultural experiences helped constitute complex intersectional personal and regional identities. This course ultimately asks students to consider what it meant to be "American" in such dynamic zones of exchange. It will be taught in English. Readings will be in both English and Spanish; English translations of Spanish texts will be provided for students taking the course for credit in English. These students will submit written work in English. Students wanting credit for Spanish are expected to read the Spanish originals and required to submit written work in Spanish.
SPAN 500 Independent Study
SPAN 550 Independent Research