Maria Pilar Villodre
Associate Professor of Spanish
E-mail: VillodreM@roberts.edu
Office: (585) 594-6833

At RWC since: 1999

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Education:
Ph.D. (Spanish Literature), University of Buffalo

M.A. (Spanish Pedagogy), Brigham Young University

Teaching Certificate, University of Barcelona

B.A., M.A. Universidad Autonoma of Madrid, Spain

Specialty areas:

Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spanish Peninsular Literature.

Current Research:

Antonio Muñoz Molina,  Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spanish Narrative and History, Contemporary Spanish Culture Studies.

Sample RWC Courses:

SPN 331 Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature

SPN 320 Hispanic Literature

SPN 315 Hispanic Cinema

SPN 215 Advanced Grammar

SPN 205 Spanish Composition & Conversation

Sample Publications/Papers:

• Reivindicación del pasado: Una asignatura pendiente de la España democrática en la narrativa de Antonio Muñoz Molina. Ediciones Libertarias. Madrid, Spain. 2009.

• “La herencia franquista y la España postmoderna en Los Misterios de Madrid” 62nd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, 2009.

• “Rumbos divergentes del exilio republican en Sefarad” Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2009.

• “La amnesia histórica de la España democrática” Conference on España XX/XXI: Diálogos en el hispanismo peninsular, University of Ottawa, 2008.