Leslie Harkema
Associate Professor of Spanish
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 18th 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.