Maria Villodre, Ph.D.
Professor of SpanishEducation
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
Biography
At RWC since: 1999
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 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.
Courses Taught
SPN 331 Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
SPN 320 Hispanic Literature
SPN 315 Hispanic Cinema
SPN 215 Advanced Grammar
SPN 205 Spanish Composition & Conversation