Marsha Swislocki

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Department of Spanish and Portuguese
6072 Dartmouth Hall
Hanover, NH 03755-3511

Office: 225 Dartmouth Hall
2008 Fall office hours:  on LSA in Barcelona
Telephone: (603) 646-3307
Fax: (603) 646-3695
e-mail: Marsha.Swislocki@dartmouth.edu

Ph.D. - Harvard University

Primary Interests:

• Poetry and Theater in Early Modern Spain and Portugal
• Nineteenth Century Spanish Theater
• Medieval poetry

Selected Courses taught at Dartmouth College

• Seminar: Theater and Performance in Modern Spain: 1800-1936 (Spanish 81)
• Hispanic Literatures I: Middle Ages to 1700 (Spanish 30)
• Hispanic Literatures II (Spanish 31): Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
• History of the Spanish Language (Spanish 40)
• Literature and Society in Medieval Spain (Spanish 50)
• Eroticism and Spirituality in Early Modern Spain (Spanish 52)
• Knights and Rogues: Narratives of Escape and Alienation in Early Modern Spain (Spanish 53)
• Spanish Poetry of the Renaissance and Baroque (Spanish 54)
• Love, Honor and Monarchy: Drama and Theater in Early Modern Spain (Spanish 55)
• Don Quijote (Spanish 56)
• Portuguese Literature: Middle Ages to the 19^th Century (Portuguese 60)
• Myths and Transformations - Don Juan: Eros, Power and the Demonic (Comparative Literature 47)
• Humanities I-II

Recent Publications:

Book (edition):

• Estrenado con gran aplauso:  teatro español, 1844-1936, edited by Marsha Swislocki and Miguel Valladares, Madrid:  Iberoamericana/Vervuert, Collected essays on Spanish Theater.  In press.

Selected articles:

• “En las fronteras del imperio:  Jerónimo Corte Real y la épica luso-castellana”, in El siglo de oro en escena.  Homenaje a Marc Vitse, Odette Gorsse y Frédéric Serralta (eds.), Toulouse, PUM (Anejos de Criticón, 17), 2006, pp. 1001-1009.

• “El entorno humano de San Sebastian:  las matronas pías”, IN Cazal, F. et Chauchadis, C., eds., Pratiques hagiographiques dans l’Espagne du Moyen Âge, Méridiennes, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 2005, pp. 191-201.

• “San Sebastián en el teatro áureo español:  El soldado más herido y vivo después de muerto”, Comedia famosa de D. Pedro Estenoz y Lodosa,” IN Pratiques hagiographiques dans l’Espagne du Moyen Âge, Méridiennes, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 2005,  pp. 411-420.

• "Cuerpo de Santo, cuerpo de Rey:  el 'martirio' del Rey don Sebastián en la literatura áurea," IN Homenaje a Henri Guerreiro: La hagiografía entre historia y literaturaen la España de la Edad Media y del Siglo de Oro, Madrid: Iberoamericana; Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2005, pp. 1059-1068.

Additional Information

Professor Swislocki has been the co-organizer of two international conferences held at Dartmouth College:

• Publishing and Public in Golden Age Spain (with Prof. Lía Schwartz)
• Estrenado con gran aplauso: teatro español, 1844-1936 (with Miguel Valladares, Baker-Berry Library).

During Fall 2003, she was Visiting Professor at the Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail.