MARYANNE LEONE
Assistant Professor of Spanish (2005)
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures
Phone: 508-767-7126
Email:maleone@assumption.edu
B.S., University of Connecticut
M.A., Middlebury College
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Sample Courses Taught: Spanish III, Spanish IV/V, Conversational Spanish and Grammar Review, Introduction to Literature: Spanish Language, Special Topics: Border Identities in Contemporary Spain
Publications:
“Colonizing Voices and Visions: Lourdes Ortiz’s ‘Fátima de los naufragios’ and ‘La piel de Marcelinda.’” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánico (RCEH) Forthcoming Volume 30, Number 3, January 2007.
“Going Global: Spain’s Entrance into the European Union and National Anxiety in Cristina Fernández Cubas’s El año de Gracia.” Anales de la literatura española contemporánea (ALEC) Volume 31, Issue 1, 2006.
Companion Website for Voces de España-Antología literaria (2005), a teaching anthology of Peninsular literature from the Middle Ages to the present, authored by José Ballesteros, Mark Harpring and Francisca Paredes-Méndez. I researched biographical and contextual web links and wrote summaries of these sites for Units 1-3, the Middle Ages through the 18th century.
Faculty Development Grant Recipient, 2007
Trafficking Democratic Spain: Cultural Perspectives
Recent Conference Presentations:
“Re/creating the Past to Shape a More Humane Future: Carme Riera’s Por el cielo y más allá.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 2006.
“Shopping for Sex: Exploiting Global Inequities in Recent Spanish Fiction and Film.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 2005.
“Madrid y la inmigración en el cuento ‘La piel de Marcelinda’ de Lourdes Ortiz: ¿Un espacio de libertad o un colonialismo contemporáneo?” III Congreso Internacional, Madrid. Organized by the Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature of the U of Alabama at Birmingham and the Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades, July 2004.
