Stephanie Sieburth, Associate Professor, Spanish & Latin American Studies

Office Location:	219D Languages Building
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3125, (919) 660-3100
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• SPANISH 331S.01, INTRO LIT FILM POPULAR CULTURE Synopsis

  Languages 305, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• SPANISH 434S.01, 19TH/20TH C SP LIT Synopsis

  Languages 305, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

Office Hours:

Thursday: 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Education:

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

Specialties:

Spanish
Gender Studies, Feminism, Women Studies, Queer Studies
Psychoanalysis, Psychology
European Studies
Modern and Contemporary
Modernity and Modernism

Research Interests:

19th and 20th Centuries Spanish and Latin, American Literature and Culture, Gender Studies, Mass Culture and Psychology

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Jeannette Acevedo Rivera  
• Martin G. Repinecz  
• Jeannette Acevedo Rivera  
• Martin Repinecz  
• Aaron Castroverde  
• Cristina Ruiz  

Recent Publications

1. S. Sieburth, Copla y supervivencia: Conchita Piquer, "Tatuaje," y el duelo de los vencidos, edited by Carmen Ortiz, Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares, vol. LXVI no. 2 (December, 2011), pp. 491-508, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
2. S. Sieburth, ¿Qué significa estudiar la "cultura española moderna"?, in Estudios culturales iberoamericanos, edited by Sergio Bairon, et. al. (forthcoming), Biblioteca Nueva
3. S. Sieburth, The Spanish Civil War: Literature, History, and Culture., in Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War, edited by Noel M. Valis (2007), pp. 517-522, Modern Language Association
4. with Harriet Turner (University of Nebraska), No title to date (forthcoming)
5. La poética del sufrimiento en La Regenta, in Proceedings of Conference, "Clarín: Un clásico contemporáneo," Universidad de Oviedo (September, 2002)

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.