Faculty Profile
Eva Copeland
Professor of Spanish (2005)
Contact Information
Bosler Hall
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