People
Maryellen Bieder | Faculty
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Adjunct Professor, Comparative Literature
Office: Ballantine Hall 877
TEL: 855-8297
Email: bieder
Education
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1973
M.A. Indiana University, 1966
B.A. Lawrence University, 1964
Specializations
- Spanish Realism and Naturalism
- European Realism and Naturalism
- Contemporary Spanish Narrative
- Spanish and Catalan Women Writers: 19th and 20th centuries
- Gender Studies
Selected Publications
- "Carme Riera and the Paradox of Recovering Historical Memory in La meitat de l'ànima." Visiones y revisiones: La narrativa de mujer del siglo XX. Amsterdam: Rodopi (2007).
- "Reading the Sign of 'España/Espana': Negotiating Genders, Languages and Nationalities." Mapping the Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas. Wilmington: U Delware P, 2005. 41-65.
- "Género y mercado literario en la narrativa de Carmen Riera." Actas del Congreso Género y géneros: Escritura y escritoras iberoamericanas. Vol. 2. Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2006. 167-175.
- "Picturing the Author: Women, Photographs, and Visual Texts." Special issue on A Cultura Popular del Siglo Diecinueve. @ Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 39 (2005).
- "The Politics of Language: Performance and Disguise in Contemporary Catalan Narrative." Número conmemorativo. Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 30 (2005): 9-29.
- "Contesting the Body: Gender, Language and Sexuality. The Modern Woman at the Turn of the Century." Women's Narrative and Film in the 20th Century. Ed. Kathleen M. Glenn and Ofelia Ferr á n. Hispanic Issues. New York: Garland/Taylor and Francis, 2005.
- "Carmen de Burgos: Feminist Reform and Feminine Tradition." Recovering Spain's Feminist Tradition. Ed. Lisa Vollendorf. New York: Modern Language Association, 2001. 241-59. Translation and republication: "Carmen de Burgos: Mujer española moderna." Recuperando la tradición feminista en España. Coordinadora Lisa Vollendorf. Barcelona: Icaria, 2005.
- "Emilia Pardo Baz á n y la emergencia del discurso feminista." Breve historia feminista de la literatura espa ñ ola (en lengua castellana) . Vol. 5. Ed. Iris M. Zavala. Barcelona: Anthropos, 1998. 75-110.
Honors and Awards
- Spanish Department Graduate Student Association Faculty Mentoring Award, 2004
- 2004 Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award
- TERA Award for Teaching Excellence
- Research Grant: Fulbright Commission (U.S. Spanish Joint Committee on Educational and Cultural Affairs),
January - September 1984 Grant renewed: September December 1984 - Newberry Library Resident Fellowship for Individual Research
- Kercheville Prize for a distinguished article, Anales Galdosianos
Current Research Projects
- Women in the Public Eye: Images of Spanish Women Authors in the Periodical Press, 1880-1920
- Emilia Pardo Bazán's Experiments in Narrative and the Discourses of Gender
- (Re)Writing the (Dis)Embodied Self: Autobiographical Narratives in Emilia Pardo Bazán, Marina Mayoral, and Carme Riera
