Rebecca E. Marquis, Ph.D.

Professor - Spanish; Modern Languages and Literature

Rebecca Marquis’s teaching and research interests focus on gender, sexuality, identity, and social justice in literature. She has worked with confessional narratives of twentieth-century women writers from Spain and Latin America. Her current...

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Education & Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D., Hispanic Literature, Indiana University at Bloomington

M.A., Luso-Brazilian Literature, Indiana University at Bloomington

M.A., Hispanic Literature, Indiana University at Bloomington

B.A., Spanish, Certificate in Latin American Studies, Dickinson College

Courses Taught

MDLA 193: Injustice in Testimonial Literature 

SPAN 201/202: Intermediate Spanish

SPAN 301/302: Advanced Spanish

SPAN 307: Survey of Latin American Literature I

SPAN 308: Survey of Latin American Literature II

SPAN 404: Spanish-American Theater

SPAN 480: Jewish Latin American Literature

SPAN 480: Witnessing Injustice: Testimonial Literature in Latin America

Rebecca Marquis’s teaching and research interests focus on gender, sexuality, identity, and social justice in literature. She has worked with confessional narratives of twentieth-century women writers from Spain and Latin America. Her current research focuses on Jewish Latin American literature, specifically how Jewish mysticism informs writing about identity and diaspora in the Americas. She is also working on an English translation of the Mexican novel "Dulcinea encantada." 

Enchanted Dulcinea. Translation of Dulcinea encantada by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman. (2022). Lexington Books.

"Confessing Diaspora from Within: Transgression and Afro-Brazilian Identity in Helena Parente Cunha's Mulher no Espelho." Brasil/Brazil: A Journal of Brazilian Literature. 51.28 (2015): 24-39.

"(De)Constructing Confession: Transgressing Borders in Yanitzia Canetti's Al otro lado." Chasqui. 41.2 (November 2012): 79-94.

"From the Convent to the Back Room: Confessional Writing in Carmen Martin Gaite's El cuarto de atrás." Letras Femeninas. 36.2 (Winter 2010): 83-108.

Translations, poems by Gilberto Mendoça Telles, Sirena: Poesia, arte y critica. 2 (2007): 98-105.

Rev. of The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire and Catalina de Erauso, by Sherry Velasco. Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 82.1 (2005): 117-18.