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Tamara Townsend
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
On faculty since 2007

Phone: (630)752-5906
E-mail: Tamara.L.Townsend@wheaton.edu


Education

Ph.D., Spanish Literature - The Ohio State University, 2007

M.A., Spanish Literature - The Ohio State University, 2003

B.A., Spanish and English, Wheaton College, 2001

 
Professional and Personal Interests


Courses Taught
  • Accelerated Elementary Spanish (SPAN 103)
  • Elementary Spanish (SPAN 102)
  • Adv Grammar and Composition (SPAN 332)
  • Survey of Spanish Literature (Span 336)

Membership in Professional Societies
  • Modern Language Association

Research
  • Memory in contemporary narrative of Spain

  • Photography in Literature

Papers Published and/or Presented

  • "Nostalgia and Homesickness in 'La corriente del golfo' by Soledad Puértolas," Women, Home and Nation: Private and Public Spaces, 17th Annual Conference, Binghamton University (SUNY),March 14-15, 2008.

  • “Memory and Photography in Historia de un abrigo by Soledad Puértolas,” Twelfth Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literature, March 23-25, 2006.

  • “Mujeres desocupadas, mujeres desesperadas: Las protagonistas de Soledad Puértolas y su búsqueda del reconocimiento en unos cuentos de La corriente del golfo,” Cincinnati Romance Languages and Literatures Conference for 2005, May 12-14, 2005.

  • “Acercarse a Jaime Gil de Biedma: El amor y la función del monólogo dramático,” Sixth Annual Ohio State University Graduate Student Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Linguistics and Cultures, March 7-8, 2003.