Full-Time Spanish Faculty

Folkart, Jessica A. (1998)
Associate Professor of Spanish. B.A., College of William and Mary (1991); M.A., University of Kansas (1993); Ph.D., University of Kansas (1998)
Web Address: http://www.fll.vt.edu/Folkart/homepage/home.html
E-Mail Address: jfolkart@vt.edu
Office Address: 313 Major Williams Hall
Office Phone: (540) 231-9076

Jessica A. Folkart is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of the Spanish Program in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech. She has authored a book, Angles on Otherness in Post-Franco Spain: The Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas (Bucknell University Press, 2002), and numerous articles on Peninsular Spanish literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her work has appeared in such journals as Anales de la literatura española contemporánea, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Hispanic Review. Recently she has published articles focusing on the representation of space and identity in novels by Galician writer Manuel Rivas. Her current research examines the representation of identity, death, and memory in Spanish fiction at the turn of the millennium. In the Spanish Program she is a Contemporary Peninsular specialist, teaching courses such as Sex and Power in Post-Franco Spain, The Power of the Eye/I: Contemporary Spanish Film and Fiction, and Cultural and Literary Studies of Modern Spain.


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