Professor, Spanish Language and Literature
Dean of Faculty, John felice rome center

scavall@luc.edu

Research Interests

• 20th Century Peninsular Poetry
• 20th Century Hispanic Prose
• Latin American Poetry
• Hispanic Women's Writing
• Feminist Theory and Criticism
• Translation

Selected Publications

• La Poetica de Jose Hierro (Madrid: Taurus, 1987).
• Estudios en Honor de Janet Pérez: el Sujeto Femenino en Escritoras Hispánicas, eds. Susana Cavallo, Luis Jiménez and Oralia Preble-Niemi. Potomac, Washington: Scripta Humanistica, 1998.

Education

• Ph.D. The University of Chicago (Romance Languages and Literatures)
• M.A. Middlebury College (Spanish)
• B.A. Brown University (History and Music)

Courses Regularly Taught

• 20th Century Spanish Poetry
• 20th Century Latin American Poetry
• Critical Methods
• Hispanic Feminism
• Issues in Feminism
• Latina Writers
• 20th Century Spanish Novel
• 19th Century Poetry
• African-Hispanic Literature
• Italian & Italian American Women Writers
• Mediterranean Women Writers

Other Activities

• Steering Committee, Women's Studies Program