Paul E. Larson
Professor of Spanish
Research/Teaching Interests
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Medieval Spanish literature and language
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Spanish grammar and composition
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Literary history
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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
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Elementary Spanish I & II (SPA 1301 & 1302)
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Intermediate Spanish (SPA 2310)
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Exploring the Spanish-Speaking World (SPA 2320)
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Conversation and Composition (SPA 3302)
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Introduction to Hispanic Literature (SPA 3305)
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Survey of Spanish Literature through the Seventeenth Century (SPA 3350)
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Advanced Grammar/Composition/Conversation (SPA 4330)
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Medieval Spanish Literature (SPA 5310)
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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
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“Fuente Ovejuna: History, Historiography, and Literary History.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 53.2 (2001): 267–290.
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“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.
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“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
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“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.