Paul E. Larson

Research/Teaching Interests

• Medieval Spanish literature and language
• Spanish grammar and composition
• Literary history
• Second language acquisition

Education

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1993

M.A., Middlebury College, 1984

B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College, 1981

Courses Taught at Baylor

• Elementary Spanish I & II (SPA 1301 & 1302)
• Intermediate Spanish (SPA 2310)
• Exploring the Spanish-Speaking World (SPA 2320)
• Conversation and Composition (SPA 3302)
• Introduction to Hispanic Literature (SPA 3305)
• Survey of Spanish Literature through the Seventeenth Century (SPA 3350)
• Advanced Grammar/Composition/Conversation (SPA 4330)
• Medieval Spanish Literature (SPA 5310)
• History of the Language (SPA 5351)

Selected Publications

Textbook

Co-authored with Frieda Blackwell. 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

• “Fuente Ovejuna: History, Historiography, and Literary History.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 53.2 (2001): 267–290.
• “The River as a Liminal Space in Berceo's 'The Fornicating Sexton'.” Cauce: Revista Internacional de Filología, Comunicación, y sus Didácticas 32-33 (2009-2010): 57-67.
• “The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Spanish Literary History in Velásquez’s Orígenes de la poesía castellana and Dieze’s Geschichte der spanischen Dichtkunst.” Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment 20.2 (1997): 183–191.

Book Chapter

• “The Problem with Example XXXV from Don Juan Manuel’s El Conde Lucanor.” In Revisiting Convivencia in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Ed. Connie L. Scarborough (Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2014): 283–295.