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Stephanie Sieburth, Associate Professor of Spanish and Women Studies, Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Romance Studies

Office Location: | 219D Language Center |
Office Phone: | (919) 660-3125, (919) 660-3100 |
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- Office Hours:
- Mondays: 2:30pm - 5:00pm
Wednesdays: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
or by appointment
- Education:
Ph.D. Princeton University 1984 Masters in Spanish Princeton University 1982 Bachelor of Arts University of Toronto 1980
- Specialties:
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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
- Keywords:
- America • Latin America • Europe • Spain • Literature • Gender • Mass Culture
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Jeannette Acevedo-Rivera
- Martin G. Repinecz
- Jeannette Acevedo-Rivera
- Aaron Castroverde
- Martin Repinecz
- Cristina Ruiz
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Sieburth, S, Coplas para sobrevivir: Conchita Piquer, los vencidos y la represion franquista. (April, 2016), Catedra, ISBN 978-84-376-3547-7 (translated by Talens, M.)
- Sieburth, S, Survival songs: Conchita Piquer’s coplas and Franco’s regime of terror (January, 2014), pp. 1-259, ISBN 9781442644731 [abs]
- Sieburth, S, Copla y supervivencia: Conchita Piquer, "Tatuaje," y el duelo de los vencidos, edited by Ortiz, C, Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares, vol. LXVI no. 2 (December, 2011), pp. 491-508, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
- Sieburth, S, Coplas and survival: Conchita piquer, "Tatuaje", and the mourning of the defeatednts, Revista de Dialectologia y Tradiciones Populares, vol. 66 no. 2 (July, 2011), pp. 515-532, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC [doi] [abs]
- Sieburth, S, ¿Qué significa estudiar la "cultura española moderna"?, in Estudios culturales iberoamericanos, edited by Bairon, S; al, E (2007), Biblioteca Nueva
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.