Joan Brown
Emeritus Elias Ahuja Chair of Spanish
University of Delaware
235 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
Professor Brown holds the Elias Ahuja Chair of Spanish. Her research and publications are in the areas of contemporary Spanish literature and culture, canon studies, women writers, and second-language acquisition. She teaches courses on contemporary Spanish literature and film, the Spanish Civil War, women writers of Spain and Latin America, and oral language acquisition in its cultural context. She is a committed member of the Honors faculty and offers combined Honors and MA-level seminars on Spanish literature and culture.
Degrees
Ph.D., Romance Languages-Spanish, University of Pennsylvania
M.A., Romance-Languages-Spanish, University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Hispanic Studies, Vassar College
Publications
Professor Brown has published book chapters and scholarly articles in
journals including the Hispanic Review, Ínsula, Hispania, and Anales de
la Literatura Española Contemporánea.
Professional Activities
Professor Brown has been active in the Modern Language Association, serving a term as chair of the LLC Forum on 20th - and 21st- Century Spanish and Iberian Studies. She has served the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese as its liaison to the MLA and as chair of its Committee on Honorary Membership. She has given invited lectures in the United States, Spain, and England. Among the scholarly sessions she has organized and chaired are an MLA panel entitled "What Do Graduate Students in Spanish Need to Learn, and Why?," the MLA panel "Carmen Martín Gaite: What Defines Her Legacy?" and the AATSP panel "Salamanca in the Literature of its Native Daughter," all subsequently published as suites of essays in Hispania. She recently delivered a talk on the future of the profession on an international panel at Harvard University. She has served on a number of editorial boards including the Board of Editors of the University of Delaware Press.
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