Leslie Harkema

Research/Teaching Interests

• Literatures and cultures of modern and contemporary Spain
• Spanish and Iberian modernisms
• Gender Studies
• Translation Studies

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)
• Spanish Culture and Civilization (SPA 3310)
• Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature (SPA 3352)
• Professional and Literary Translation (SPA 4340)
• Cultural Representations of the Spanish Civil War (SPA 4388/5388)

Selected Publications

Books

• Translation, Collaboration, Mediation: Women and Cultural Labor in Modernist Iberia. Co-edited with Evelyn Scaramella. (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming)
• Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth: From Miguel de Unamuno to La Joven Literatura. University of Toronto Press, 2017.

Selected Recent Articles and Book Chapters

• “Iberian Multilingualism, Gender, and Translation as Collaboration.” The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain: Ideas, Practices, Imaginings, edited by L. Elena Delgado and Eduardo Ledesma, Routledge, 2025. (Forthcoming)
• “Algunas traductoras de Unamuno. Reflexiones sororales.” Cuadernos de la Cátedra Miguel de Unamuno, vol. 50, 2022 [2023], pp. 57-72. 
• “Miguel de Unamuno in Spain’s Memory Battle.” Public Books, 11 January 2022.
• “Speaking in Tongues: On Maragall, Unamuno, and Pentecost.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol. 96, no. 8, 2019, pp. 815-833.