Bartlett

Linda Bartlett

Carey Shepard Crantford Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures

Curriculum Vitae
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A native of Euclid, Ohio, I fell in love with Spanish in high school and then the liberal arts as an undergraduate at Wake Forest University. Thanks to great mentors and several high-impact learning experiences in college--a semester spent studying in Salamanca, Spain, experiences as a teaching assistant and peer advisor, and the chance to do extensive individualized research project--, I realized that a career in academia was my calling. After earning an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, I joined the Furman faculty as an assistant professor in 1991.

I love to teach undergraduates at every level, and especially appreciate the opportunity for close student-teacher interactions afforded by Furman's size and commitment to undergraduate education. In addition to Spanish language, literature and culture courses, I enjoy teaching a first-year writing course on US perceptions of Spain throughout our history. Watching my students learn more about themselves, the US, and the world through their encounters with the Spanish-speaking world is one of the best parts of the job. The chance to travel abroad with students, whether to Madrid as a study co-director, or on shorter trips to Cuba and Northern Ireland with the Cothran Center for the Exploration of Vocation, has been especially rewarding.

In addition to my work as a faculty member, I have spent over 16 years of my career at Furman in academic administration, serving as Assistant Academic Dean, Associate Academic Dean, Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean, and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (in that order).

I was named the Carey Shepard Crantford Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures in 2019.

Honors

  • Award from the Division of Student Life in recognition of “outstanding dedication, leadership and commitment to the Furman University community” (June 2009)
  • Maiden Invitation Award (Administration), spring 2007 (“In recognition of providing a welcoming environment for all students at Furman University”)
  • Speaker, L.D. Johnson "What Really Matters" lecture series, spring 2007

Education

  • Ph.D., in Spanish, University of Virginia
  • M.A., in Spanish, University of Virginia
  • B.A., Magna cum laude with Honors in Romance languages, Wake Forest University

Research

Dr. Bartlett's research interests include late 19th- and early 20th-century Spanish literature (especially Juan Ramón Jiménez, Miguel de Unamuno and the "Generation of 1898"); the image and representation of Spain and Spanish-speakers in the United States (17th-century to the present); and the representation of Spanish history in contemporary Spanish television.

Publications

Book

  •  Literatura española «fin de siglo»: Texto, contexto y crítica, college-level literary anthology. Co-authored with Mark P. Del Mastro. McGraw-Hill, 1998

Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Cinematic Intertextuality and Self-Reflexivity in El Ministerio del Tiempo.” Crear entre mundos: nuevas tendencias en la metaficción española, Editorial Albatros (Diálogos peninsulares series), 2021, 69-90.

  • “Teaching History Through Television: Myth and Counter-Myth in Cuéntame cómo pasó. Invited chapter in Mito e historia en la televisión y el cine español, published by Editorial Albatros and distributed through its new series, Diálogos peninsulares, 2019

  • “Cars, Space, and the Dynamics of Power in Cuéntame cómo pasó,” Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature, Vol. 41, issue 1 (5-22-2017), 1-18

  • “Television as Textbook: Cuéntame cómo pasó in the Spanish (Literature) Classroom (co-authored with Lourdes Manyé), Hispania, 98.3 (2015), 511-521

  • “Unamuno’s Existential Thermodynamics,” Ometeca, Vol. XXII (2015), 24-34

  • “Room for Doubt: ‘Saduceísmo’ in El Cristo de Velázquez,” Ojáncano, 38 (octubre 2010), 75-87

  • “In Praise of Tears: Pain and Poetry in Arias tristes,” Modernisms and Modernities: Studies in Honor of Donald L. Shaw. Ed. Susan Carvalho. Juan de la Cuesta Monographs, 2005, 73-90

  • “The Sanctity of the Creative Act in El Cristo de Velázquez,” Hispanic Journal, xxi.1 (2000), 37-4

  • "'Si tú te llamaras Babel...': Love Poetry, Parody and Irony in Tres tristes tigres," Siglo XX/Twentieth Century (1990-91), 31-40 (as Linda R. Boone)

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