Faculty Profile

Eva Copeland

Professor of Spanish (2005)

Contact Information

copelane@dickinson.edu

Bosler Hall Room 122
717-254-8152

Bio

She teaches courses on race, sexuality, gender, and national identity in 19th-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 works include "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.