College of Humanities People

Rebecca Haidt, Associate Professor Literatures and Cultures of Spain

Department of Spanish and Portuguese: http://sppo.osu.edu/

Office Information
256 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: haidt.1@osu.edu and/or haidtnorton@earthlink.net
Phone: 614-292-8849
Fax: 614-292-7726

Education:
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis (1992)

General Background:

Areas of Specialization

Eighteenth-Century and Nineteenth-Century Iberian, Spanish Literature, History and Culture; Literary and Cultural Theory; Gender; Urban Studies; Media/Visual Studies

Books

Rags and Riches: Women, Work and Clothing in Eighteenth-Century Spain (forthcoming 2011, SVEC, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford University).

Embodying Enlightenment: Knowing the body in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Culture (St. Martin's Press, 1998)

Awarded the MLA's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for Outstanding Book published in the field of Latin American and Spanish Literature and Culture for 1999

Seduction and Sacrilege: Rhetorical Power in Fray Gerundio de Campazas. (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2002).

Current Research

Memory's Eye: book on intersections of visual and textual practices in urban experiences of "modernity" in the capital during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Cultural Studies
Visual Culture
Gender Theory and Studies
Literary Theory
Literatures & Cultures of Spain