Carmen de Burgos’s works on divorce in early 20th-century Spain are now available in English and Spanish editions. The volumes capture the historic debate on divorce and its impact on the fem…| Rebecca M. Bender, PhD
It’s been a LONG time since I wrote a new post, as the past three years have been unpredictable and anxiety-ridden, to put it mildly! I was able to take students to Spain again this summer (2…| Rebecca M. Bender, PhD
Typically some of my favorite things to blog about are trips to art museums and special exhibits that connect to my research and teaching interests on various topics related to Spanish history, cul…| Rebecca M. Bender, PhD
One of my main goals in teaching second-language (L2) Spanish Literature courses is to develop non-traditional tasks that demonstrate the value of reading for the development of the target language…| Rebecca M. Bender, PhD
In 2020 I had the lofty goal of posting something new to the blog each month — and while I started out strong in January and February… for obvious global-pandemic-related reasons that p…| Rebecca M. Bender, PhD
For this post, I’m sharing details of my most recent article, “Snapping the Quijote: Examining L2 Literature, Social Media, and Digital Storytelling through a Cervantine Lens”, which was publ…| Rebecca M. Bender, PhD
Since this fall semester is clearly “unprecedented”, unpredictable, and a whole host of adjectives that are pretty much ALL stress-inducing, I am taking the opportunity to experiment in…| Rebecca M. Bender, PhD
Now that the crazy and unpredictable Spring 2020 Covid19-semester is finally over, and since I’ll now be spending my entire summer in Kansas rather than in Spain and Mexico, I am working to s…| Rebecca M. Bender, PhD
Since I last wrote about my favorite book from 2019, I thought it made sense to move on to one of my other top reads, which was another one of the MANY books I carried home after spending most of m…| Rebecca M. Bender, PhD
Somehow I only managed to write 4 blog posts in 2019; and with all the “end-of-the-year” reflections and round-ups going around, I started to feel like I hadn’t really accomplishe…| Rebecca M. Bender, PhD
