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 research...

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Contact Information

  • Office Hours | Spring 2025
    M, W: 2:00-3:30 (in person or Zoom) and W 5:30-6:30 (Zoom only)
    Please schedule through Zoom scheduler or by email.

  • (509) 313-5583

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: Witnessing Injustice: Testimonial Writing as a Tool for Change 

SPAN 101 Beginning Spanish I

SPAN 201/202: Intermediate Spanish

SPAN 301/320: Advanced Spanish

SPAN 323: Latin American Pre-Hispanic-19th Century Literature

SPAN 324: Latin American 19th-20th Century Literature

SPAN 328 Survey of Women’s Literature

SPAN 380: Jewish Latin American Literature

SPAN 380 Queer Literature in Spanish

SPAN 380: Spanish-American Theater

SPAN 480 Indigenismo and Beyond

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 recently completed the English translation Enchanted Dulcinea of the Mexican novel Dulcinea encantada by Jewish Mexican author Angelina Muñiz-Huberman.

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.