Leslie Harkema

Research/Teaching Interests

• Literatures and cultures of modern and contemporary Spain

• Spanish and Iberian Modernisms

• Gender Studies

• Theory, practice, and history of translation

Education

Ph.D. Hispanic Language and Literatures, Boston University

M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Georgia at Athens

B.A. English and Spanish, Calvin College

Courses Taught at Baylor

• Conversation and Composition (SPA 3302)

• Survey of Spanish Literature from the 18^th Century to the Present (SPA 3352)

Selected Publications

Books

• Faithful Betrayals: Translation, Nationhood, and Gender in Modern Spain’s Multilingual Republic of Letters. (Manuscript in Progress).

• Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth: From Miguel de Unamuno to La Joven Literatura. Toronto Iberic Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.

Articles and Book Chapters

• “Teaching the Multi-Faceted Unamuno in a Semester-Long, Undergraduate Course.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno. Ed. Luis Álvarez Castro (New York: Modern Language Association, 2020): 42-48.

• “Speaking in Tongues: On Maragall, Unamuno, and Pentecost.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 96.8 (2019): 815-833.

• “Translation, Gender, and the Republic of Letters in José de Cadalso’s Los eruditos a la violeta and Its Suplemento.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 96.3 (2019): 399-424.

• “‘Felices años veinte’?: Las chicas del cable and the Iconicity of 1920s Madrid.” Televising Restoration Spain: History and Fiction in Twenty-First Century Costume Dramas. Ed. David R. George and Wan S. Tang (Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018): 221-239.

Book Reviews

• “Border Crossings: Myths and Memories of Tolerance.” Review of Eric Calderwood, Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture, Harvard University Press, 2018. Marginalia Review of Books, 26 October 2018.

• “Massachusetts Reviews: Uncertain Glory.” Review of Joan Sales, Uncertain Glory. Translated by Peter Bush, NYRB Classics, 2017. The Massachusetts Review Blog, 22 December 2017.

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