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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

Recent Publications

• “Emilia Pardo Bazán: Veintiuna cartas a Gabriela Cunninghame Graham.” Siglo Diecinueve 18 (2012): 29-64.
• “Emilia Pardo Bazán and Gabrielle Cunninghame Graham: A Literary and Personal Friendship.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 89.5 (July 2012): 725-49.
• “Negotiating Modernity in Multicultural Spain: Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Una cristiana and La prueba.” Siglo XIX 16 (2010): 137-69.
• “‘Mis retratos y mis caricaturas’: Un artículo rescatado de Emilia Pardo Bazán.” La Tribuna: Cadernos de Estudos da Casa Museo Emilia Pardo Bazán 7 (2010).
• “Imágenes visuales de Emilia Pardo Bazán en la prensa periódica: Estudio comparativo de Sarah Bernhardt y Pardo Bazán.” Actas del Congreso Internacional   Literatura hispánica y prensa periódica (1875-1931). Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 2009. 221-35.
• “Representaciones visuales en las obras finiseculares de Emilia Pardo Bazán.” La literatura de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Ed. José Manuel González Herrán, et al. A Coruña: Fundación CaixaGalicia, 2009. 193-207.
• “Ambigüedad narrativa y compromiso social en Marina Mayoral: ¿Víctimas o asesinas?” Escritoras y Compromiso: Literatura española e hispanoamericana de los siglos XX y XXI. Ed. Ángeles Encinar y Carmen Valcárcel. Madrid: Visor, 2009. 351-68.
• “Language, Culture and Nationality: The Case of Jordi Soler.” Catalan Review: International Journal of Catalan Culture 21 (2007): 381-94.
• "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 La 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 Ferrán. 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 Bazán y la emergencia del discurso feminista." Breve historia feminista de la literatura española (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: Veintiuna cartas a Gabriela Cunninghame Graham.” Siglo Diecinueve 18 (2012): 29-64.
• “Emilia Pardo Bazán and Gabrielle Cunninghame Graham: A Literary and Personal Friendship.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 89.5 (July 2012): 725-49.