Faculty Profile
Eva Copeland
Associate Professor of Spanish (2005)
Contact Information
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,� published in Hispania, received the 2023 AATSP Outstanding Scholarly Publication Award. Recent works include “Afro-Spanish Countervisual Genealogies of Blackness in Rubén H. Bermúdez’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 currently 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
2024-2025 Academic Year
Fall 2024
WGSS 201 Spanish Composition
Cross-listed with SPAN 231-01. This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment.
WGSS 201 Spanish Composition
Cross-listed with SPAN 231-02. This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment.
SPAN 231 Spanish Composition
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-05. This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment.
SPAN 231 Spanish Composition
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-06.This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment.
SPAN 299 Read & Think About Texts
This course focuses on current narratives depicting migration journeys from Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America to Spain. Exploring diverse literary genres like poetry, short stories, novels, as well as visual mediums such as graphic novels and films, the course explores the topic of migration literature and analyzes how these migration stories address themes of national and cultural identity, displacement and belonging, subjectivity, diversity, and the dynamics of memory and forgetting.
SPAN 500 Contemporary Spanish Literatur
Spring 2025
WGSS 201 Spanish Composition
Cross-listed with SPAN 231-02.This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment. This course is taught entirely in Spanish.
WGSS 201 Spanish Composition
Cross-listed with SPAN 231-03. This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment. This course is taught entirely in Spanish.
SPAN 231 Spanish Composition
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-03. This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment. This course is taught entirely in Spanish.
SPAN 231 Spanish Composition
Cross-listed with WGSS 201-04. This class explores literary texts and films created by women writers and directors from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The course delves into overarching themes such as representation, identity, diversity, gender roles, and empowerment. This course is taught entirely in Spanish.