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)
• Spanish Literature from the 18th Century to the Present (SPA 3352)
• Professional and Literary Translation (SPA 4340)
• Migration and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film (SPA 4388/5388 – Special Topics)

Selected Publications

Books

• New Approaches to Women’s Cultural Activity in Early 20th Century Iberia: Translation, Collaboration, Mediation. Co-edited with Evelyn Scaramella. (In preparation)

• 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)
• “The Further Bank: Zenobia Camprubí, New York, and Translation.” Iberian New York: Transatlantic Connections and Cultural Crossings in the Modern Metropolis, edited by Antonio Córdoba and Evelyn Scaramella. (Bloomsbury Academic, 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. 

  
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  • [ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4458-2319]