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Recommended resources from RL faculty: Spanish

David Castillo

Research/teaching interests	Spanish Golden Age literature cultural studies
Most useful journals	Cervantes: The Journal of the Cervantes Society of America Bulletin of the Comediantes Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
Intro guides, books	Basic books on literary and cultural theory Rivkin, Julie and Michael Ryan (eds.). Literary Theory: An Anthology Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers, 1988. Easthope, Anthony and Kate McGowan (eds). A critical and Cultural Theory Reader. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. Useful reads on early modern history and culture Maravall, Jose Antonio. La cultura del barroco Maravall, Jose Antonio. Estado moderno y mentalidad social
Websites	Biblioteca virtual Miguel de Cervantes: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/ Comedia Textlist: http://www.coh.arizona.edu/spanish/comedia/textlist.html Instituto Cervantes http://www.cervantes.es/

Robert Davis

Research/teaching interests	Second language teaching technology in language teaching Spanish linguistics
Most useful journals	Modern Language Journal ACTFL journal: Foreign Language Annals Northeast Conference Reports all the "AAT" journals: American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP): Hispania AATF (French): French Review AATI (Italian): Italica
Intro guides, books	Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen, second edition (J. Lee and B. VanPatten, McGraw Hill, 2004) Teaching Language in Context, third edition (A. Omaggio-Hadley, Heinle, 2001)
Dictionaries	Oxford Spanish-English bilingual (get the full-sized version) install the Spanish "proofing tools" that come with Microsoft Word so that you can use the spelling check and thesaurus that come with the program
Websites	http://www.aatsp.org http://www.aati-online.org http://www.frenchteachers.org http://www.coflt.org (Oregon state association for second language teachers) http://www.actfl.org

Amalia Gladhart

Research/teaching interests	Latin American theater Contemporary Latin American narrative (especially women's narrative)
Most useful journals	Latin American Theatre Review Gestos Theatre Journal Articles on Latin American theater can, however, be found in all the general critical journals as well, though less frequently.
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Gina Herrmann

Research/teaching interests	contemporary Spanish literature, politics and culture autobiographical studies gender studies
Most useful journals	Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Revista Hispánica Moderna Modern Language Notes (the Hispanic issues)
Intro guides, books	* indicates that this resource is worth purchasing! Literary Theory: Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (the "Further Reading" at the end is an excellent guide to the field)* The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory (U Toronto) Other classics that have helped me: Raymond Williams: Marxism and Literature Fredric Jameson: Marxism and Form the Introduction to Terry Eagleton’s Ideology Hannah Arendt’s Introduction to Benjamin’s Illuminations a very recent and highly specialized personal favorite: Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism, eds. Paula Moya and M Hames-García. Books on history and literature in Spain: Historia social de la literatura española by Carlos Blanco Aguinaga and Iris Zavala Spanish Cultural Studies by Graham and Labanyi, eds. * Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies by Jordan and Morgan-Tamosunas, eds. Modern Spanish Culture by David Gies, ed. *
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Leah Middlebrook

Research/teaching interests	joint appointment in RL and COLT Sixteenth and seventeenth literature and culture, primarily Spain France and England, with an emphasis on the lyric, and a super-emphasis on lyric form, especially sonnets. critical theory cinema
Most useful journals	Modern Language Notes (especially the Spanish issue) Modern Language Quarterly Hispanic Review Renaissance Quarterly
Intro guides, books	cultural studies anything published by the Hispanic Issues group at the U of Minnesota is worth reading and owning. They have released volumes on every major period in Spanish cultural production, and they also work on overlapping periods in volumes dedicated to a theme. Keep an eye out for Rhetoric and Politics, which is great on the seventeenth century. Literature Among the Discourses and Re/Discovering Colonial Writing are also very good. I also liked their edited volume on Spanish cinema. literary theory William Egginton's How the World Became a Stage gives an excellent overview of theories of subjectivity, and takes examples from Peninsular theater, but it's written in English. general history/cultural background Ignacio Navarrete's Orphans of Petrarch, also published as "Huerfanos de Petrarca" as an intro to early 16th century humanist culture Fernando de la Flor's Barroco: Representacion e Ideolgia en el Mundo Hispanico books in English that help me in my work, and that seem to work well for graduate students Judith Butler's The Psychic Life of Power and Paul Smith's Discerning the Subject are extremely helpful in getting everyone up to speed on theories of the subject from Hegel through post-Marxism Lacan, Ecrits Slavoj Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology Arif Dirlik, The Postcolonial Aura Susan Stewart, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
Dictionaries	http://www.rae.es
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Amanda Powell

Research/teaching interests	16-17th centuries, Spanish peninsular & colonial literature mujeres escritoras
Most useful journals	Colonial Latin American Review Hispanic Review Revista Iberoamericana
Intro guides, books	cultural studies & literary theory M. Evans, "Feminism: Critical Concepts in Literary & Cultural Studies" J. Butler, "Gender Trouble" general history/cultural background R. Gonzalez-Echevarria & E. Pupo-Walker, "Cambridge History of Latin American Literature", vol. 1 Colonial.
Dictionaries	Bilingual: Oxford (peninsular) Larousse
Websites	Core Lists in Women's Studies: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/core/crfemthe.htm Specific to sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: S. Wood & A. Powell, http://server.fhp.uoregon.edu/dtu/sites/sorjuana/index.shtml# (username: dtu; password: 222hijinx)

Analisa Taylor

Research/teaching interests	contemporary literature and cultural politics in Latin America formulations of gender, ethnic and national identity in Mesoamerican and U.S.-Mexican border literature, art and film indigenist, testimonial and indigenous literatures of Mexico
Most useful journals	Latin american Literary Review Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies Revista de Critica Literaria Revista Iberoamericana
Intro guides, books	19th and 20th century Latin American Literary History/Criticism: Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana by Jean Franco Foundational Fictions by Doris Sommer Journeys Through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in the 20th General Literary and Cultural Theory: A Theory of Cultural Production by Pierre Macherey The Field of Cultural Production by Pierre Bourdieu The Political Unconscious by Frederic Jameson History/Cultural Criticism Modern Latin America by Skidmore and Smith La crítica de la cultura en America Latina by Ángel Rama Culturas híbridas by Ernesto García Canclini
Dictionaries	Español Moderno by Ramón García Pelayo, published by Larousse Thesaurus in English: The Synonym Finder by J.I. Rodale In Spanish: Sinónimos/Antónimos published by Larousse
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David Wacks

Research/teaching interests	Medieval Iberian studies Romance Philology Sephardic culture
Most useful journals	La corónica Bulletin of Spanish Studies Sefarad
Intro guides, books	cultural studies Bauman, Richard. "Performance." Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments. Ed. Richard Bauman. New York: Oxford UP, 1992. pp. 41-49. Castro, Américo. España en su historia: Cristianos, moros y judíos. 2 ed. Barcelona: Crítica, 1983. Dundes, Alan. Interpreting folklore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. literary theory Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, eds. Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies. London: Routledge, 1998. Venuti, Lawrence. The Translation studies reader. London ; New York: Routledge, 2000. general history/cultural background Menocal, Maria Rosa. The Ornament of the World. Boston: Little Brown, 2002. Menocal, Maria Rosa, Raymond P. Scheindlin, and Michael Anthony Sells, eds. The Literature of Al-Andalus. The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Gerber, Jane S. The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience. New York: The Free Press, 1992. Monroe, James T. Hispano-Arabic poetry : a student anthology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. Scheindlin, Raymond P. Wine, Women, & Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life. 1st ed. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1986.
Dictionaries	Oxford Spanish/English Dictionary Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (Brown, Driver and Briggs) Arabic-English Dicitonary (Hans Wehr) Diccionario de la Real Academia Espanola Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana
Websites	Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita: http://jaserrano.com/LBA/ El Amor Cortés en el Mundo Occidental: http://www.elon.edu/lmc/amor/files/caracteristicas.html Labyrinth (General Medieval Studies): http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html Princeton Online Arabic Poetry Project: http://www.princeton.edu/~arabic/poetry/ The UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource: http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/indiv/scctr/online.html