Yvonne Fuentes, Ph.D.

Professor of Spanish
School of Humanities College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

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Boyd Building - Room 211
Office Hours
M 2-3; W 2-5 & zoom meetings by appointment

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Yvonne Fuentes, Ph.D.
Biography

Yvonne Fuentes received her B.A. and M.A. from New York University, and her Ph.D. from the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. Her research has been primarily in the area of Spanish 18th and early 19th century literature and culture. Before coming to UWG, she held positions at Louisiana State University, Duke University, and Emory University. She has taught language and literature courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

She has published four books: El triángulo sentimental en el drama del siglo dieciocho, Inglaterra, Francia, España. Ed. Reichenberger, 1999; Mártires y anticristos: Análisis bibliográfico sobre la Revolución francesa en España. Vervuert / Iberoamericana, 2006; Leading Ladies: Mujeres en la literatura hispana y en las artes. LSU Press, 2006; Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies, 2021. 

Recent published and forthcoming articles and book chapters include: “Spanish Testaments, Wills, and Inventories: Bridging Heaven and Earth” special edition on “Eighteenth Century Last Wills and Testaments” in 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. Forthcoming. “They Were Warned, Yet They Persisted.” Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies, 2021, 1-10;  “Dr. Vicente Alaño y Serviá and the Calaix de Sastre: Intersecting Threads.” Special Edition of Dieciocho. Hispanic Enlightenment, Anejo 6 (Fall 2020): 7-8; 31-50; “The French Revolution’s Echo in Spain,” in Teaching Representations of the French Revolution. MLA, 2019. (305-13); "Incest as Metaphorical Sites of Relations in Cándido María Trigueros’ El precipitado.” Anagnórisis. Revista de Investigación Teatral, 11 (June 2015): 20-42; “Urban and Labor Identities: Madrid’s Menestrales in Eighteenth-Century Sainetes and Plays.” Dieciocho. Hispanic Enlightenment, 37.2 (Fall 2014): 211-32.

Education / Degrees
  • B.A., Spanish, New York University (Madrid, SPAIN), 1978
  • M.A., Spanish Literature, New York University (Madrid, SPAIN), 1992
  • Ph.D., Hispanic Philology in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SPAIN, 1997
Courses Taught
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Publication List

Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century [View Publication External Resource]

Mártires y anticristos: Análisis bibliográfico sobre la Revolución francesa en España. [View Publication External Resource]

Leading Ladies: Mujeres en la literatura hispana y en las artes [View Publication External Resource]

El triángulo sentimental en el drama del siglo dieciocho (Inglaterra, Francia, España) [View Publication External Resource]