Rebecca Haidt
Professor
256 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH
43210
Areas of Expertise
- Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Spain
- Visual and Interdisciplinary Studies
Education
- Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 1992
- M.A., Washington University in St. Louis, 1989
- B.A, Washington University in St. Louis, cum laude, 1983
Rebecca Haidt is Professor of Spanish. Research areas: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish and Iberian literary and cultural studies. Haidt’s publications include Embodying Enlightenment: Knowing the Body in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Culture (St. Martin’s, 1998; winner of the MLA’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize); Seduction and Sacrilege: Rhetorical Power in Fray Gerundio de Campazas (Bucknell, 2002); and Women, Work and Clothing in Eighteenth-Century Spain (Oxford/Voltaire Foundation, 2011). Forthcoming Fall 2024: “Introduction” and co-editor, special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies (on “Spanish Sapphic Modernity”). Anticipated 2026: This Fire in Me: 33 poems by Carolina Coronado (1820-1911), bringing an expansive selection of the great Spanish poet’s verse into English for both scholarly and general readers.
Tutoring and Translating Services
Spanish Intermediate Translating, Spanish Intermediate Editing, Spanish Advanced Translating, Spanish Advanced Editing