Frieda H. Blackwell

Biography 

After receiving her PhD in Spanish from Vanderbilt U. Dr. Blackwell taught at Howard Payne U. before coming to Baylor in 1989.  She taught Spanish at all levels, served as Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences for 25 years and also taught in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core (BIC) for 27 years.  She and Dr.Paul Larson authored Guía básica de la crítica literaria y el trabajo de investigación, (2nd edition, 2017, Baylor Press).  She has also published articles in numerous professional journals including one on Eduardo Mendoza in Revista de estudios hispánicos, on García Lorca in Hispania, on Miguel Delibes in Hispanic Journal, as well as articles on Delibes, Soledad Puértolas, Almudena Grandes and others in volumes of collected essays.  She currently has an article in press on Delibes with Romance Notes, and another on Spanish poetry of the Pandemic with South Central Review.

Research/Teaching Interests

Spanish literature and culture, especially 19^th and 20^th centuries

Education

Ph.D., Spanish, Vanderbilt University

M.A., Spanish, Vanderbilt University

B.A., English and Spanish, Mars Hill College

Courses Taught at Baylor

• Elementary Spanish I & II (SPA 1301 & 1302)
• Intermediate Spanish (SPA 2310)
• Exploring the Spanish-Speaking World (SPA 2320)
• Introduction to Hispanic Literature (SPA 3305)
• Spanish Civilization (SPA 3310)
• Survey of Spanish Literature from the Eighteenth Century (SPA 3352)
• Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature (SPA 4364)
• Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature (SPA 4366)
• Topics in Hispanic Language and Literature: Women Writers, Civil War & Dictatorship (SPA 4388)
• Spanish Poetry and Drama: 19th and 20th Centuries (SPA 5324)
• Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spanish Narrative (SPA 5326)

Selected Publications

Textbook

Co-authored with Paul Larson. Guía básica de la crítica literaria y el trabajo de investigación.  (Boston, MA: Thomson Heinle, 2006; 2nd edition, updated and expanded, Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021).

Articles

• “Roots of a Religious Crisis: García Lorca and the Libro de poemas.” Hispania 88:2 (2005): 245-256.
• “Narrative Perspective in La novela de Pepe Ansúrez by Torrente Ballester.” Tabla redonda: Anuario de estudios torrentinos 5 (2007): 67-80.
• “Hidden Politics and Serious Humor in Los ladrones somos gente honrada by Enrique Jardiel Poncela.” Letras peninsulares (2006-2007): 223-233.
• “Delibes’ El hereje, the Historical Novel, Protestantism and the Critique of Spain’s Catholic Church.” Hispanic Journal 34.1 (2013): 43-56.

Book Chapter

• “El tiempo, la memoria y las huellas de la Guerra civil española y la postguerra en Los aires difíciles de Almudena Grandes.” In Almudena Grandes: Memoria, compromiso y resistencia. Helena Talaya and Sara Fernández, eds. (Granada: Valparaíso Ediciones, 2017): 43–56.