Spanish

Developing proficiency in the oral and written language of Spanish and understanding Hispanic cultures, literature, art, philosophy and politics

www.bucknell.edu/Spanish

Related Student Organizations and University Programs

Career Paths

Spanish majors can prepare for careers in teaching Spanish language and Hispanic literature and cultures, education, law, health care, government, business, social services, publishing and the arts.


Recent alumni of the program have secured the following positions:

  • Counselor, Neighborhood Childcare Center
  • Executive Trainee, Lord & Taylor
  • Recruitment Associate, Teach for America
  • Sea Turtle Technician, Sea Island Company
  • Account Executive, AccessOne
  • Associate, Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group

Selected Faculty Publications

Bucknell’s Spanish faculty members’ work has appeared in the following publications:


Books

  • El espectro de la herencia: la narrativa de Javier Marías (Isabel Cuñado, author)
  • Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism (Isabel Cuñado, contributor)
  • Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí: Art and Theory (Manuel Delgado, co-editor)
  • Gil Vicente 500 anos depois (500 años después) (Manuel Delgado, contributor)
  • Approaches to Teaching the Spanish Comedia (Manuel Delgado, editor and contributor)
  • Confronting History and Modernity in Mexican Narrative (Elisabeth Guerrero, author)
  • Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America (Elisabeth Guerrero, co-editor)
  • Latino/a Writers (Elisabeth Guerrero, contributor)
  • Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea (Ana Patiño, contributor)
  • Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí: Art and Theory (Alice Poust, co-editor)
  • Mapping the Social Body: Urbanization, the Gaze, and the Novels of Galdós (Collin McKinney, author)


Journals

  • Bulletin of Spanish Studies
  • Ciberletras
  • Decimonónica
  • Letras libres
  • Revista Iberoamericana
  • Latin American Literary Review
  • Quimera: Revista de Literatura
  • Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
  • Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship

Internships

Internships provide Spanish majors with career networking and experience and an opportunity to practice their language skills in the corporate, government or nonprofit world.


Recently, Spanish students have interned at:

  • CBS College Sports
  • Kempen & Co.
  • Marc Kozam

Facilities & Resources

  • Multimedia classrooms with computer and video/DVD projection.
  • An excellent collection of foreign language films, including more than 130 films in Spanish, music collections and more than 200 titles in children’s literature in Spanish in Bertrand Library.
  • Three teaching assistants from Spanish-speaking countries.

Quick Facts

Number of full-time faculty: 8

Average number of majors per class year: 31

Program Details

  • Proficiency in Spanish allows students to become more effective members of the global community, in which approximately 400 million people speak Spanish, 30 million of those in the U.S..
  • Bucknell’s Spanish curriculum features courses on the wide expanse of literature and cultures of Spain and Spanish America as well as an in-depth study of special topics.
  • Students of Spanish gain knowledge and appreciation of the writers and works of a long and rich literary tradition.
  • Students may supplement their major in Spanish with courses from related programs such as Latin American studies and international relations.
  • All Spanish courses, from the elementary and intermediate levels through senior-level courses, are taught by Spanish department faculty members.

Faculty

The faculty in the Department of Spanish are committed teachers and active scholars who incorporate their research into the courses they teach.

Isabel Cuñado
Licenciatura, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain; M.A. West Virginia; M.A., Ph.D. Cornell
Scholarly interests: Spanish post-civil war literature and culture, literature of the fantastic, film and visual arts, comparative literature

Manuel Delgado
Licenciatura, Universidad de Granada, Spain; Ph.D. Texas at Austin
Scholarly interests: Scholarly interests: the staging and symbolic representation of theatrical works of the Spanish Golden Age and of the 20th century in Spain

Melvin González-Rivera
Ph.D. Ohio State University
Scholarly interests: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interface in grammar, with an emphasis on Caribbean Spanish.

Elisabeth Guerrero
B.A. Virginia; M.A.Wisconsin at Madison; Ph.D. Texas at Austin
Scholarly interests: 19th- and 20thcentury Latin-American narrative, with a particular emphasis on Mexican literature, history culture

Jason McCloskey
B.A. Penn State University; M.A. Miami University; Ph.D. Indiana University
Scholarly interests: Spanish and Spanish-American poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly epic poetry and its relations to contemporaneous narratives of conquest and exploration, and Renaissance visual arts

Collin McKinney
B.A., M.A. Brigham Young University; Ph.D. University of Cambridge
Scholarly interests: 19th-century Spanish literature and culture, with a special focus on the novels by authors Galdós and Clarín

Ana Mercedes Patiño
B.A. Universidad del Tolima (Colombia); M.A. Instituto Caro y Cuervo (Colombia); M.A. Colorado at Boulder;
Ph.D. California at Riverside
Scholarly interests: Latin American 20th-century narrative, with special interest in avant-garde authors, genre theory and contemporary Latin American short story

Alice J. Poust
B.A., M.A. Pittsburgh; Ph.D. Texas at Austin
Scholarly interests: 20th-century literature and the history of ideas, both in Spain and Spanish America, the representation of gender in 20thcentury Spanish-American literature, magical realism and fantasy literature, and utopian ideas in literature

Undergraduate Research<BR>and Creative Projects

Spanish majors are invited to collaborate with faculty mentors on scholarly research projects, which can lead to publications or presentations at conferences. Spanish majors with a strong academic record are encouraged to apply for an honors research project.


Recent project titles include:

  • Escuchar la voz narrativa materna: la teoría de las memorias en Paula de Isabel Allende
  • La cuestión de la identidad de España según las tesis de Américo Castro y Sánchez Albornoz
  • Como ser hombre: la masculinidad española en el siglo XIX
  • La censura en la obra de Buero Vallejo

Courses Offered

Most students with four or five years of secondary school Spanish place into Intermediate Spanish II or Grammar, Composition and Conversation upon their arrival. Students who are bilingual or who have studied/lived in a Spanish-speaking country may place into more advanced courses. Our online placement test will help to determine a student’s level.

20th-century Latin American Literature
20th-century Spanish Literature and Film
Advanced Conversation and Composition
Cervantes, Velázquez and Their Age
Colombian Caribbean Short Stories
Colombian Short Story
Contemporary Argentine Literature
Elementary Spanish I and II
García Lorca, Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel
Gauchos, Indians and Blacks
Goya and the Drama of His Times
Grammar, Composition and Conversation
Intercultural Communication: The Anglo–Hispanic Connection
Intermediate Spanish I and II
Introduction to Latin Literature
Introduction to Latin American Literature
Latin American Cultures
Latin American Short Stories for Children
Latin American Women Short Story Writers
Latino/Latina Literature in the U.S.
Love Melancholy in Spanish Literature and Art
Magical Realism and Fantasy Literature
Migration and Exile in Latin American
Stories for Children
Pirates, Conquistadors and Rebels in Epic Poetry of the Spanish Empire
Post Civil War Novel and Film in Spain
Science and Literature in 19thcentury Spain
Spanish Comedia and Shakespeare
Spanish Culture and Civilization
Spanish Drama Workshop
The Latin American Short Story
The Mexican Revolution: Ideology and Aesthetics
The Super Short Story
The Spanish Civil War: Literature and Film
Translation and Advanced Grammar
Utopian Ideas in Latin American Literature
Utopia and Dystopia in Latin American Cities

Study Abroad

Spanish majors are encouraged to spend one or two semesters abroad and may choose from approved programs in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Spain.

Additionally, Bucknell has its own study abroad program at the Universidad de Granada in Spain and offers three weeks of study in Nicaragua.

Graduate and Professional School

The study of Spanish builds a foundation for graduate study in Spanish literature or linguistics, Latin American studies, education, international relations, law and international business.


Recently, students have gone on to:

  • Columbia University
  • Georgetown University
  • Duke University
  • New York University
  • Ross University
  • Rutgers University
  • Widener University