Literary Aesthetics and Poetics

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Literary Aesthetics and Poetics is the study of poetry, prose, dramatic works, and other genres of writing across languages to understand their structures, meanings, contexts, and reception over time.  Scholarship in the department examines and critically interprets epic and lyric poetry, short story and the novel, theater and film, treatises, chronicles, essays, and journalism through historical periods using philological methods as well as literary and cultural theory. 

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Personnel

Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson

Associate Professor of Spanish

Mexican Narrative, Disaster Studies, Latin American Ecocriticism, the Total Novel 

 

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Jonathan Baillehache

Assistant Professor of French

Jonathan Baillehache's research focuses on the ethics of literary translation in the context of literary modernity, Lacanian psychoanalytical theory, and post-colonial politics.

In his recent book, La Traduction de la lettre. Éthique, désir et littéralité dans la pensée d’Antoine Berman et dans l’œuvre traductive de certains poètes…

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Nora Benedict

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities

Latin American literature Book History Digital Humanities Publishing History Descriptive and Analytical Bibliography Access and Preservation of the Cultural Record

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Dana Bultman

Professor of Spanish Literature

Early modern Spain, treatises, conduct books, theology & religion, satire & burlesque, class & gender, works by and about women, Baroque aesthetics.

Stacy Casado

Stacey Dolgin Casado

Department Head

Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature; Spanish Novel from the Civil War to the Present; Jungian theory applied to the study of the novel; Postmodernism and its literary and cultural manifestations; the XIXth Century Spanish Realist and Naturalist Novels; and the novel as genre.

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luis correa-díaz

* Professor of Spanish

Digital Poetry & Poetics & Humanities, Cyberculture, Science & Literature & Culture, Human Rights, Posthumanism

Paola De Santo

Paola De Santo

Assistant Professor of Italian

Early modern Italy, Italian colonialism, Gender Studies

Associate Professor

Lesley Feracho

Associate Professor of Spanish

Dr. Feracho specializes in contemporary Latin American narrative and in particular women's narrative of the Caribbean, as well as Afro-Latin American narrative and poetry. Her current research involves cross-cultural literary texts (in both narrative and poetry) of women writers of African descent from the Americas (both Spanish-speaking and…

Steven Grossvogel

Steven Grossvogel

Associate Professor of Italian

Medieval Italian literature, Italian cinema and theater.

Jonathan Haddad

Jonathan Haddad

Assistant Professor of French

17th and 18th century French literature, French encounters with the Islamicate world, Mediterranean Studies. 

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Catherine Jones

Professor of French and Provençal

French Medieval Literature, with a specialization in the Old French epic; medievalism; literature and law.

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Nicolás Lucero

Associate Professor

19th and 20th century Latin American literatures. Modernization and Modernisms. Travel Writing. Journalism, politics and literature.

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Jan Pendergrass

Professor of French

Specialization in Renaissance humanism, humanist pedagogy, epistolography and paleography. Current research project: Claude Dodieu: Lettres et papiers (working title).

Thomas E. Peterson

Thomas E. Peterson

Professor of Italian

Italian lyric and epic poetry, modern and contemporary fiction, women writers, literary theory, film studies, philosophy of education

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Timothy Raser

Professor of French

French literature, 19th-century poetics and æsthetics.

Alberto Villate-Isaza

Alberto Villate-Isaza

Graduate Coordinator

Latin American colonial literature, culture and historiography, particularly in the New Kingdom of Granada. Other interest and areas of research include social and political theory of the baroque, discourses of Latin American national identity, and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latin American literature, especially modernismo. 

Professor Elizabeth Wright

Elizabeth Wright

Distinguished Research Professor, Spanish Literature

Elizabeth R. Wright (Ph.D., Spanish literature, Johns Hopkins University, 1998).  See below for books, links to selected articles, and a list of grants/awards.

Elizabeth Wright studies and teaches about early modern Spain in the context of imperial expansion. She is also editor of the Bulletin of the Comediantes, the international…

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