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
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Conversation and Composition (SPA 3302)
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Survey of Spanish Literature from the 18th Century to the Present (SPA 3352)
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