Jane W. Albrecht

Dept. of Romance Languages
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27l09
(336) 758-5468
albrecht@wfu.edu

Fields of Specialization

Literature of the Spanish Golden Age
Linguistic Criticism of Literature
Catalan Studies

Languages

Native: English
Native-like: Spanish
Very good: Catalan
Competent: French, German

Education

Ph.D., Hispanic Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington
M.A., Hispanic Literature, Indiana University
B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Spanish, Wright State University

Fellowships and Grants

2000-01 Research and Publication Award, Wake Forest University Graduate School

1999-0 Academic and Community Engagement Fellowship, Mary Reynolds Babcock Fund
for Leadership and Ethics

1998-99 Computer Enhanced Learning Initiative Grant, Wake Forest University

1998-99 Z. Smith Reynolds Research Leave, Wake Forest University

1992-93 Research and Publication Award, Wake Forest University Graduate School

1991-92 Z. Smith Reynolds Research Leave, Wake Forest University

1990-91 Research and Publication Award, Wake Forest University Graduate School

1989-90 Publication Grants, Indiana University and the Abadia de Montserrat, Barcelona

1988-89 Research and Publication Award, Wake Forest University Graduate School

l983-84 Agapito Rey Scholarship, Indiana University

l979-80 Foreign Language Area Studies/National Defense Fellowship

l977-78 Indiana University Foundation Fellowship

Employment History

1993- Associate Professor of Spanish, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North
Carolina
l987-1993 Assistant Professor of Spanish, Wake Forest University

Offices Held

1998- Treasurer, North American Catalan Society
1996-98 Secretary, North American Catalan Society

Courses Taught

Beginning Spanish
Intermediate Spanish
Culture and Conversation
Business Spanish
Spanish Civilization
Advanced Grammar and Composition
Golden Age Drama
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Spanish Literature
The Picaresque Tradition in Western Literature
Major Spanish Writers
The Short Story in Spanish
Masterpieces of Spanish Literature
Cervantes
Spanish for Reading Knowledge
Honors: Approaches to Human Experience
(Virginia Woolf, St. Augustine, Luis Buñuel)
Introduction to Spain: Semester in Salamanca
First Year Seminar: Children and Society

Publications

The Playgoing Public of Madrid in the Time of Tirso de Molina. New Orleans: University
Press of the South, 2001.

"Is There Another Pattern of Origin for the Word 'Pícaro'?," Romance Notes 41.2 (Winter 2001): 153-60.

A review of Tirso de Molina: His Originality Then and Now, Bulletin of the Comediantes.

"The Golden Age Playgoing Public: From the Highest to the Lowest?," Bulletin of the Comediantes 49.1 (Summer 1997): 89-96.

"The Grammar of Technique: Inside 'Continuidad de los parques,'" with Patricia V. Lunn, Hispania 80.2 (May 1997): 227-33.

Irony and Theatricality in Tirso de Molina, Ottawa Hispanic Studies 16, Ottawa: Dovehouse, 1994.

"The Statistical Analysis of Verse Form as a Tool for Assigning Authorship and the Case of Tirso de Molina," Looking at the "Comedia" in the Year of the Quincentennial: Proceedings of the 1992 Symposium on Golden Age Drama at the University of Texas, El Paso March 18-21, ed. by Barbara Mújica and Sharon D. Voros, Lanham, MD and London: UP of America, 1993. 247-53.

"Linguistic Style and Point of View in Lazarillo de Tormes," Neophilologus 77 (1993): 223-28.

"La Plaça del Diamant: Linguistic Cause and Literary Effect," with Patricia V. Lunn, Hispania 75.3 (September 1992): 528-34.

"Irony in Four Comedies by Tirso de Molina," Hispania 75.2 (May 1992): 8-13.

"Divine Providence and Human Morality: The Ironic Perspective of La venganza de Tamar," Bulletin of the Comediantes 43.2 (1991): 213-22.

Homenatge a Josep Roca-Pons: Estudis de llengua i literatura, a festschrift of Hispanic and Catalan studies ed. by Jane White Albrecht et al., Barcelona: Indiana U and the Abadia de Montserrat, 1991.

"La plaça del Diamant: la narració de la consciéncia/la con? sciéncia de la narració," (with Patricia V. Lunn), Homenatge a Josep Roca-Pons, ed. Albrecht et al., Barcelona: Indiana U and the Abadia de Montserrat, 1991. 9-22.

"Formas y funciones de ironía en cinco obras de Tirso de Molina," Neophilologus72 (1988): 546-55.

"A Note on the Language of La plaça del Diamant" (with Patricia V. Lunn), Catalan Review 2 (1987): 59-64.

"The Satiric Irony of Marta la piadosa," Bulletin of the Comediantes 39 (l987): 37-45.

Presentations and Sessions Chaired

"Cervantes's Best Play: Don Quijote," presented at the AATSP, San Francisco, California, July 2001.

Session chair, Twentieth International Golden Age Drama Symposium, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, March 2000.

"Summer Programs in Sitges," presenter and participant by invitation at the Catalunya Forum, Sitges, Spain, May 1999.

"The Terms 'Vulgo' and 'Mosquetero' in the Golden Age," presented at the Nineteenth International Golden Age Drama Symposium, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, March 1999.

"Economics and the Playgoing Public," presented at the MLA, Washington, D.C., December 1996.

"Who Could Afford to Attend the Golden Age Theater?" presented at the Fifteenth International Golden Age Drama Symposium, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, March 1995.

Session chair, Fifteenth International Golden Age Drama Symposium, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, March 1995.

"Marginalizing Tirso," presented at the Thirteenth International Golden Age Drama Symposium, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, March 1993.

"Verse Form as a Tool for Assigning Authorship," presented at the Twelfth International Golden Age Drama Symposium, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, March 1992.

"The Language of the Lazarillo de Tormes," presented at the Mid?America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, November 1989.

"'Oh, what a fine play I would make from this plot if I were a poet': Tirso's Comic Irony," presented at the Ninth International Golden Age Drama Symposium, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, March 1989.

"Literary and Linguistic Style in the Lazarillo de Tormes," presented at the Sixth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, Florida, March l988.

"The Civil War in La plaça del Diamant," (with Patricia V.Lunn), Michigan State University 25th Annual Conference in Modern Literature: International Literature of the Spanish Civil War, East Lansing, Michigan, November l987.

"Els estudis catalans a les universitats nord?americanes i alguns comentaris sobre La plaça del Diamant," presented by invitation at the Segon Congrés Internacional de la Llengua Catalana, Barcelona, Spain, May l986.

"Irony and Theatricality in Four Comedies by Tirso de Molina," presented at the First International Symposium on Tirso de Molina, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., November l985.

"Ironic Form, Technique and Effect in Three Plays by Tirso de Molina," presented at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, October l985.

"Ironic Variations in Pere Calders's Ronda naval sota la boira" presented at the Quart Col loqui d'Estudis Catalans a Nord-America, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., May l984.

"Vida, mort i eternitat en Jorge Manrique i Ausiás March: Las coplas i 'El cant espiritual'," presented at the Segon Col loqui d'Estudis Catalans a Nord-America, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April l980.