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Marsha Swislocki

Associate Professor of Spanish and PortugueseMarsha Swislocki

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

Office: 225 Dartmouth Hall
2009 Summer office hours: Wednesday 2:00-3:00 pm, and by appointment
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 19th 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.

Last Updated: 6/26/09