Leslie Harkema
Associate Professor of Spanish
Division Director of Spanish & Portuguese
Research/Teaching Interests
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Literatures and cultures of modern and contemporary Spain
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Spanish and Iberian Modernisms
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Gender Studies
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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
Selected Publications
Books
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Faithful Betrayals: Translation, Nationhood, and Gender in Modern Spain’s Multilingual Republic of Letters. (Manuscript in Progress).
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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
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“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.
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“Speaking in Tongues: On Maragall, Unamuno, and Pentecost.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 96.8 (2019): 815-833.
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“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.
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“‘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
Full Resume
Curriculum Vitae