EDUCATION

1978 University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Ph.D. Spanish Literature
Dissertation topic: The Short Fiction of Leopoldo Alas, "Clarín"
Ph.D. advisor: Professor Ricardo Gullón

1971 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
M.A. Spanish Literature and Language, French Literature
Major advisor: Professor Juan Luis Alborg

1969 University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Diploma of Spanish Studies (Curso para Extranjeros)

1968 Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
B.A. Major: French Language and Literature
Second major: Spanish Literature

EMPLOYMENT Name of Employer Position

1979-, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature:
1989-1991; 1999-2000, 2003-2004 Chairperson
1996-, Full Professor
1988-96, Associate Professor
1982-84; 1987-88; 1994-96, Dir. of Undergraduate Studies
1980-88, Assistant Professor
1976-77, University of Chicago, Lecturer
1969-1971 Purdue University Teaching Assistant

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

The Nineteenth-Century Spanish Short Story: Textual Strategies of a Genre in Evolution.
Madrid: Tamesis, 1985.
Gender and Representation: Women in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Realist Fiction.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Purdue Romance Monograph Series, 1990.
Estudios sobre escritoras hispánicas en honor de Georgina Sabat-Rivers, Editor. Madrid: Castalia, 1992.
Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994
Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain. Co-editor with Jo Labanyi. London: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Fictions of the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press. University Park: Pennsylvania State Press,
1999 (2000).
The Spanish Gypsy. History of a European Obsession Penn State University Press, 2004

Bibliographies:

A Checklist of Serials Pertaining to the Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago Library. University of Chicago: Department of Romance Languages and Literature, 1976.

Hispanic Feminist Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Feministas Unidas, 1994.

Articles:

"La Regenta and Theories of the Subject." Romance Languages Annual (Purdue U) 1 (1990).
"On Desire and Domesticity in Spanish Nineteenth-Century Women's Novels" Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 14.3 (Spring 1990), 395-414.
"The Sexual Economy in the Stories of María de Zayas." Letras Femeninas 15.1-2 (1991): 15- 28. Reprinted in María de Zayas; The Dynamics of Discourse. Ed. Amy Williamsen. Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 1995. 115-130.
"When the Canon Isn't (Good) Enough: A Response." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 27 (1993): 471-479.
"La Regenta and the Sutured Subject." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 28 (1994): 65-78.
"The Social Masochism of the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel." Indiana Journal of Hispanic Studies. 2.1 (Fall 1993): 111-135.
(with Barbara Morris) "Whose Masochism? Whose Submission?: Regarding the Pornographic Subject in Almudena Grandes' Las edades de Lulú." Letras Peninsulares 6.3 (1994): 301-319.
"Deseo y Decadencia en El Caballero de las Botas Azules." Foro Hispánico: Revista Hispánica de los Países Bajos.15 (1999): 11-20

Invited Articles and Book Chapters:

"Once Upon a Body: On Paul Smith's The Body Hispanic and Malcolm Read's Visions in Exile." Siglo XX/Twentieth Century (1991-1992), 209-224.
"Desire in Rosalía de Castro's El caballero de las botas azules" 79-96 in Estudios sobre escritoras hispánicas en honor de Georgina Sabat-Rivers.
"The Pygmalian Effect: Galdós and the Desiring Male Subject," A sesquicentennial Tribute to Galdós 1843-1993. Linda M. Willem, Ed. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 1993. 189-206.
"Bearing Motherhood: Issues of Maternity in Los Pazos de Ulloa." In New Hispanisms: Literature, Culture, Theory. Ed. Mark Millington and Paul Julian Smith. Ottawa Hispanic Studies 15. Ottawa: Dovehouse Press, 1994. 69-95.
"The Analyst, the Novelist and the Hysteric in the "Case" of Eduardo Zamacois' La enferma." A Ricardo Gullón: Sus discípulos. Ed. Adelaida Martínez. Erie, Pennsylvania: ALDEEU, 1995. 61-71.
"Exoticism and the Politics of Difference." Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain. Eds. Lou Charnon-Deutsch and Jo Labanyi. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. 250-270.
"Pornography and the Bécquer Brothers' Bourbons in the Raw." Bodies and Biases. The Representation of Sexualities in the Hispanic Cultures and Literatures. Eds. Roberto Reis and David William Foster. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1996. 274-93.
"Ficciones de lo femenino en la prensa decimonónica española." La mujer en la literatura española. Vol III, Breve historia feminista de la literatura española (en lengua española). Ed. Iris M. Zavala, Myriam Díaz Diocaretz. Barcelona: Anthropos, 1996. 49-79.
(Introduction) Death and the Doctor: Three Nineteenth-Century Spanish Tales. Ed. Robert M. Fedorchek. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1997. 13-28.
"María de Zayas" (brief entry). Spanish Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Ed. David William Foster. Westport, Conn: Greenwood P, 1999.
"Beyond Nature: The Conundrum of Expressive Realism in Late Nineteenth-Century Novelists." Letras Peninsulares, 13.1 (2000). Special Issue: Towards a Poetics of Realism. Edited by Harriet Turner. 405-420. "Concepción Arenal and the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Debates About Women's Sphere." Recovering Spain's Feminist Tradition. Ed. Lisa Vollendorf. New York: Modern Language Association. 2001. 198-216. Reprinted as "Concepción Arenal y los debates decimonónicos sobre la educación y la esfera de la mujer." La recuperación de la tradición feminista en España. Ed. Lisa Vollendorf. Barcelona: Icaria (In press)
"The Racial Fetishism of Nineteenth-Century Spanish Magazines." Hiperfeira (e-journal) 2002.
"Travels of the Imaginary Spanish Gypsy." In Constructing Identity In Twentieth-Century Spain. Ed. by Jo Labanyi. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002. 22-40.
"Gender and Beyond: Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and New Feminisms" In The Cambridge Companion to The Spanish Novel. From 1800 to the present. Ed. Harriet Turner and Adelaida López de Martínez. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003, 122-137
"Nineteenth-Century Women Writers." Chapter 11, Part V, "The Nineteenth Century" of the Cambridge History of Spanish Literature. Edited by David Gies. 461-69.

CONFERENCES AND INVITED LECTURES (selection since 1995)

"Engendered Fictions: Nation and Novel in
XIXth-Century Spain: A Response to Catherine Jagoe" New Directions for the Teaching and Study of Modern Spanish Literature. New York (NYU) (April, 1995).
"Exoticism and the Sexual Politics of Difference" for "A Symposium on Postcolonialism." St Louis University (Sept. 1995).
"Making Light of Death in Fin-de-Siècle Spain" Barnard Conference on Women in Spanish Culture." Barnard College (October 1995)
"The Economy of the Gaze in Late Nineteenth-Century Popular Spanish Culture." MLA. 109th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (Chicago, Dec. 1995).
"Eroticism in Contemporary Spanish Fiction" (respondent). MMLA (Minneapolis, Nov. 1996)
"Engraven Desire: Exoticism in fin-de-siècle Spanish Periodicals" Invited Lecture (University of Miami, Miami, Jan., 1997).
"The Blue Beyond: Reflections on Dress and Distinction in Spanish Nineteenth-Century culture." (Asociación de literatura Femenina Hispánica, Atlanta, 9-11 October, 1997)
"The Lure of the Gypsy in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press. Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, 1997.
"On the Subject of Galdós’s Slaves" Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (Toronto, Dec. 1997).
"Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Gender, Deviance and Criminality in Eighteenth- and nineteenth-Century Spain and Spanish America." (Discussant). Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (St. Louis, November 1998).
"The Travels of the Imaginary Gypsy." University of Viriginia (May, 1999)
"Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press" (Brandeis University, Nov, 1999)
"The Nationalization of the Spanish Gypsy." Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (Chicago, Dec. 1999)
"Fetishism in Nineteenth-Century Magazine Art." Aberdeen conference on "Fetishism in Spanish Textual and Visual Culture, 1850-2000" (April, 2001).
"The Racial Fetishism of the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press." (Vassar, April 2001). "A Critical 'Album Abanico' for the Author of La Regenta." U Wisconsin, Center for European Studies (October, 2001). "Introduction to A History of the Imaginary Spanish Gypsy" U Wisconsin, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (October 2001).
"The Hydraulics of Clarinian Criticism" Chicago, Instituto de Cervantes (November 2001.) "Travels of the Imaginary Spanish Gypsy." The Norman MacColl Lecture 2001, Trinity College, Cambridge. (November, 2001).
"Racial Fetishism and the Illustrated Magazine." Cambridge University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (November, 2001).
"Comentarios sobre el fetichismo de la prensa decimonónica" Conference on "El Hispanismo Cultural en los EE.UU." Granada, Spain. (Feb, 2002);
"The Commodification of Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain." U Kansas (April, 2002).
"From Engraving to Photo." Photo/Hispanic Identities Conference. University of Manchester, England (Sept 12-13, 2002).
"Cultural Studies Antaño y Ogaño." Hispanic Cultural Studies: The State of the Art. Tucson, Arizona. (September 18-21, 2002).
"Europe Invents the Gypsy" Rutgers University (October, 2002)
"Theories of Fetishism and the Exotic." Harvard University Humanities Center (October, 2002).
"'Goin' a Gypsying' in the Age of Cultural Studies" (Annual Convention of the Modern Languages Association, New York, 2002).
"The Spanish Gypsy: History of a European Obsession." Old Westbury College (April, 2003)
"The Status of the Magazine Image as Object of Desire." U Illinois, Champagne (September 2003)
"Yankee Go Home: Lessons Not Learned from the War of 1898" University of Wisconsin, Workshop on Modernism in the Spanish context. (March, 2004)
"The Travels of the Imaginary Gypsy" Stony Brook Emeritus Speaker Series (March, 2004)
"The Real and the Imaginary in Gypsy Studies" (Annual Convention of the Modern Languages Association, 2004).

SESSIONS CHAIRED

"Gender Issues in the Novels of Galdós." North East Modern Language Association 21st Annual Convention (Wilmington, Delaware, March 1989).
"Psychoanalytic Approaches to HispanicWomen Authors." (Purdue U. Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film (Oct. 1989).
"Approaches to the Analysis of Erotica by Hispanic Women Authors." Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (Chicago, 1990).
"Contemporary Hispanism and the Impact of Literary Theory." Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (San Francisco, 1991).
"The Conditions for Feminist Pedagogy in Hispanic Luso-Brazilian Studies: A Workshop." (MLA Feministas Unidas Panel) Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. New York, Dec., 1992).
"Popular Culture, Popular Images" VI Conferencia Internacional de la Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispáncia. Barnard College (October, 1995).
"The Construction of Masculinity in Hispanic Women’s Fiction" (Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Washington, 1996)
"The Gypsy in the European Imaginary" (Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Toronto, 1997)
"The Discovery of ‘Romantic’ Spain." (Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, 1999)
"Literature and Class in Nineteenth-Century Spain" (Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Washington, 2000)
"Culture and Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Spain" (Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Washington, 2000).
"The Rise of the public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Spain." (Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, New Orleans, 2001)
"Habitus in Nineteenth-Century Spain." (Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, New Orleans, 2001).
"Museum Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain." (Annual Convention of the modern Languages Association, New York, 2002).

HONORS, GRANTS, AND VISITING FELLOWSHIPS
1981 SUNY at Stony Brook Summer Stipend.
1984, 1988, 1989, 1991 Award for Exceptional Service in the Area of Undergraduate Education (The "Paperweight Award") SUNY at Stony Brook.
1985 SUNY Faculty Grant for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education.
1990 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching
1990 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
1987, 1991 SUNY Experienced Faculty Travel Grant
1991 NEH Travel to Collections Grant
1992 Visiting Kenan fellow, Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina
1992, 1993 SUNY Faculty Travel Grant
1993, 1994 PDQWL (United University Professions) Continuing Faculty Award, December,
1993 1995 Spain's Ministry of Culture Grant for Research, Fall,
1995 1997-2001 Executive Committee of the 19th Century Spanish division of the MLA.
1998 PDQWL (United University Professions) Continuing Faculty Award
1999 Spain's Ministry of Culture Grant for Publication of Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press.
2002 National Endowment for the Humanities, Senior Fellowship Award (Accepted)
2003 Spain's Ministry of Culture Grant for Publication of The Spanish Gypsy. History of a European Obsession
2003 Spain's Ministry of Culture Grant for Colloquium entitled "The Gypsy in European Culture"

EDITORIAL BOARDS
1997- Appointed to the Advisory Board, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
2000- Appointed to Editorial Board of Letras Femeninas
2001- Appointed American Regional Editor of the Hispanic Research Journal
2002- Advisory Board, online journal Hiperfeira
2002- Appointed to Editorial Board of Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
2002- Appointed to Editorial Board of El Tribuno
2004- Founding Editorial Board of the on-line journal Decimonónica
Recent manuscript reviews for Vanderbilt University Press (2001), Penn State Press (2002), Anales Galdosianos, Hispanofila, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, etc.

WORK IN PRESS
"The Creation of a Mass Media in Nineteenth-Century Spain" (for an anthology on Rhetoric for Nineteenth Century Prose. Edited by Rosemary Lloyd).
"From Engraving to Photo." (For an anthology on Visual Spanish culture edited by Susan Larsen and Eva Woods)

WORK IN PREPARATION
"Going a Gipsying in the Age of Cultural Studies" For Cultura formas de representación y la lógica de los objetos: España 1850-2000. Ed. Malcolm Alan Compitello
"'Nota de color': Picturing Race in Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish periodicals"
"Bush Watch: Cartooning Race and Gender in the Iraq Wars"

RECENT BOOK REVIEWS
"A Contrapuntal Method for Analyzing Spanish Literature." Pierre Ullman. Anales Galdosianos. 25 (1990): 155-57.
"Semiótica y morfología textual del cuento naturalista." Rolf Eberenz. Anales Galdosianos 26 (1991): 106-7. "Reading La Regenta." Stephanie Sieburth. Hispania 75 (May, 1992): 322-333.
"Love Customs in Eighteenth-Century Spain." Carmen Martín Gaite, trans. María G. Tomsich. Letras Femeninas 18.1-2 (1992): 149-50.
"Tribulaciones exóticas e iniciación carnal de Salomón, el Magnífico." Leopoldo Azancot. Letras Peninsulares 8.1 (Spring 1995): 334-6.
"Escritura femenina y discurso autobiográfico en la nueva novela española." Isolina Ballesteros. Letras Femeninas 21.1-2 (1995): 172-4.
"Textos y contextos de Galdós." John M. Kronik and Harriet Turner. Revistas de Estudios Hispánicos 30.2 (May, 1996):337-8.
"Ambiguous Angels. Gender in the Novels of Galdós." Catherine Jagoe. Romance Quarterly 43.1 (Winter, 1996): 55-56.
"Ramón María del Valle-Inclán: Questions of Gender." Carol Maier and Roberta L. Salper, eds. Bucknell UP, 1994. Romance Quarterly 44.1 (Winter 1997): 59-60.
"Under Construction. The Body in Spanish Novels" Elizabeth A. Scarlett. Hispanic Review 65 (1997): 108-9. "Siguiendo los hilos. Estudio de la configuración discursiva en algunas novelas españolas del siglo XIX." María-Paz Yáñez. Revista Hispánica Moderna. (In press)
"Breve historia feminista de la literature española V. La literatura escrita por mujer. Desde el siglo XIX hasta la actualidad. Ed. Iris M. Zavala. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 33.2 (1999): 401-3.
"El doble silencio del eunuco. Poéticas sexuales de la novela realista según Clarín." Zamora Juárez, Andrés. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 34 (Oct. 2000): 665-66.
"Betrayal of the Innocents. Desire, Power, and the Catholic Church in Spain." Timothy Mitchell. South Central Review. (Winter, 2000): 119-121.
"Dislocations of Desire: Gender, Identity, and Strategy in La Regenta." Alison Sinclair. Hispanic Review 68 (2000). 329-330.
"Cigar Smoke and Violet Water. Gendered Discourse in the Stories of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Joyce Tolliver. Hispania 84.1 (2001): 61-62.
"Gender and Modernization in the Spanish Realist Novel." Jo Labanyi. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 79 (2002): 254-255.
"La mujer en los discursos de género." Ed. Catherine Jagoe, Alda Blanco and Cristina Enríquez de Salamanca. Anales Galdosianos 37 (2002): 188-190.
"The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire and Catalina de Erauso." Sherry Velasco Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 79 (2002): 421-2.
"Escritoras virtuosas: Narradoras de la domesticidad en la España isabelina. Alda Blanco Letras Femeninas (In press).
"Ellas se aburren: ennui e imagen feminina en 'La Regenta'." Sonia Núñez Puente. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 80 (2003): 429.
"Challenging Gender and Genre in the Literary Text: The Works of Nuria Amat." Nuria Capdevila?Arguelles. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 81 (2004): 129.
"Antología de la prensa periódica isabelina escrita por mujeres (1843-1894)." Ed. Iñigo Sánchez-Llama. Anales Galdosianos. (In press)
"Voces desde el silencio. Heterologías genérico-sexuales en la narrativa española moderna (1875-1975). Richard Krauel. Hispanófila (In press)
"Inventing the Art Collection. Patrons, Markets, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Spain." Oscar E. Vázquez. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. 5.1 (2004): 139-41.
"Visions of Filth. Deviancy and social Control in the Novels of Galdós." Teresa Fuentes Peris. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (In Press)
"Gender and Nation in the spanish Modernist Novel." Roberta Johnson. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (In preparation)

ORGANIZATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL OFFICES
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Midwest Modern Language Association
Modern Language Association
Feministas Unidas (Vice President, 1991-92, President, 1992-4)
MLA Women's Caucus
Teachers for a Democratic Culture
Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas
Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas
Executive Committee, Division on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature, 1997-2001
SUNY at Stony Brook, Humanities Institute (Acting Director, Spring, 1997)

OTHER RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Modern Language Association, Committee to judge the prize for Independent Scholars, 2002-2004, Chair of committee, 2003.
Outside reviewer, Queens College, Department of Hispanic Language and Literature (Spring, 2001)
Recent Tenure / promotion review cases for: University of Ohio (Fall 2000), University of Iowa (Fall 2000), Rutgers University (2000),Washington State University (Summer 2000), Johns Hopkins University (Fall, 2001), Vanderbilt University (Fall, 2001), Texas Christian University (Spring 2002), Cambridge University (Spring 2002), Washington University (Spring 2002), Dartmouth University (Spring 2004), University of Miami (Summer 2004)
NEH grant reviewer, Summer 2004