Rebecca
Haidt, Associate Professor Literatures and Cultures of Spain
Areas of Specialization
Eighteenth-Century Spanish Enlightenment Literature and Culture; Literary and Cultural Theory; Gender Studies; Comparative Studies
Books
Embodying Enlightenment: Knowing the body in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Culture (St. Martin's Press, 1998)
Awarded the MLA's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for Outstanding Book published in the field of Latin American and Spanish Literature and Culture for 1999
Seduction and Sacrilege: Rhetorical Power in
Fray Gerundio de Campazas. (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2002).
Current Research
Memory's Eye: book on intersections of visual and textual practices in urban experiences of "modernity" in the capital. Working with costumbrismo, urban planning texts, documentation of urban spectacles and graphic journalism, travel narratives.
19th century Spanish literature and culture; urban studies
Luxury, gender and cultures of consumption in eighteenth-century Madrid
A cultural history of Petimetres and Petimetras
Translation and critical edition of Pablo Minguet's Arte de danzar a la francesa
