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Stephanie Sieburth
Title:
 
Associate Professor; Spanish and Women Studies
Office Location:
 
219D Languages Bldg.
Office Phone:
 
919-660-3125, 919-660-3100
Office Hours:
 
Thursday: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Email Address:
 
sieburth@duke.edu
Stephanie Sieburth received her PhD from Princeton University in 1984, and taught at Brandeis University before coming to Duke in 1987. Her main area of specialization is Spanish literature and culture from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Her publications include Inventing High and Low: Literature, Mass Culture and Uneven Modernity in Spain (Duke University Press, 1994), Reading "La Regenta": Duplicitous Discourse and the Entropy of Structure, (Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 1990), and articles on Galdós, Clarín, Goytisolo, Martín Gaite and García Márquez. Her research interests include nineteenth-century literature and culture in Spain, relations between "highbrow" literature and mass culture in Spain and Latin America, Modernity and the City, the Spanish Civil War, and gender studies.

Education:

  • PhD in Spanish Princeton University, 1984
  • Masters in Spanish Princeton University, 1982
  • Bachelor of Arts University of Toronto, 1980

Research Interests:

19th and 20th Centuries Spanish and Latin, American Literature and Culture, Gender Studies, Mass Culture and Psychology
Recent Publications   (More Publications)
  1. Trans., S. Sieburth, ¿Qué significa estudiar la "cultura española moderna"?Estudios culturales iberoamericanos.  Ed. Sergio Bairon, et. al.. Biblioteca Nueva, forthcoming. “¿Qué significa estudiar la ‘cultura española moderna’?” Trans. Francisco López Martín. Translation of "What Does it Mean to Study Modern Spanish Culture?" in the Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture, ed. David Gies. Cambridge University Press, 1999, 11-20. In Estudios culturales iberoamericanos, ed Sergio Bairón, Fernando Contreras, et. al. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, forthcoming.
  2. S. Sieburth. ""The Spanish Civil War: Literature, History, and Culture."." Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War  (2007): 517-522.
  3. with Harriet Turner (University of Nebraska). "No title to date."   (forthcoming).
  4. "La poética del sufrimiento en La Regenta." Proceedings of Conference, "Clarín: Un clásico contemporáneo," Universidad de Oviedo  (September, 2002).
  5. "The Conversation I Never Had with Carmen Martín Gaite." Revista de estudios hispánicos :36 (2002): 27-39.