LEORA LEV

Professor                                                                                       

Department of Foreign Languages  

322 Tillinghast Hall                              

Bridgewater, MA 02325     

USA                                                                            

508/531-2449                                            

L1LEV@bridgew.edu                                                 

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D. in Romance Languages, Harvard University                    

M.A. in Romance Languages, Harvard University

B.A. in Romance Literatures (magna cum laude), Brandeis University

 

COURSES

 

Freshman Year Seminar: “Our Vampires, Ourselves: The Gothic Mode in Literature and Film"

            Celluloid Visions, Global Lives: International Women’s Cinema

            Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature

            Spanish Civilization

            Latin American Civilization

            Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in Hispanic Cinema

            Critical Perspectives in Women’s Studies

            Latin American Short Story in Translation

            Spanish reading and composition

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS        

 

·        Editor of and contributor to the anthology Enter At Your Own Risk: The Dangerous Art of Dennis Cooper (March 2006, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)

·        Essays and reviews in Film Quarterly, American Book Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, The Boston Phoenix, Catalan Review, South Atlantic Review, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, La Corónica, Anales de Literatura Contemporánea Española, Antipodes: Journal of Hispanic and Galician Studies, Bridgewater Review, and the anthologies Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish Writers on Gay  and Lesbian Themes: A Bio-Critical  Sourcebook, and Enter At Your Own Risk: The Dangerous Art of Dennis Cooper