Dr. Jane Albrecht

Associate Professor of Spanish

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Office: Greene 520

Phone: (336) 758-5468

E-mail: albrecht@wfu.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Hispanic Literature, Indiana University, 1985
• M.A., Hispanic Literature, Indiana University, 1979
• B.A., Spanish, Wright State University, 1977

Research Interests

• The Spanish comedia
• Picaresque Novels
• Linguistics and Literature

Courses Taught

• Spanish 213: Introduction to Hispanic Literature
• Spanish 217: Literary and Cultural Studies of Spain
• Spanish 332: The Golden Age of Spain
• Spanish 343: Cervantes: The Birth of the Novel
• First Year Seminar: Children and Society

Honors and Awards

• Archie Fund Travel to Conference Award (matching funds), 2003-04
• Travel to Conference Award, Research and Publication Fund, Wake Forest University Graduate School, 2001-02

Representative Publications

• The Playgoing Public of Madrid in the Time of Tirso de Molina . UP of the South, 2001
• Irony and Theatricality in Tirso de Molina , University of Ottawa Hispanic Studies 16, Dovehouse, 1994
• “Is There Another Pattern of Origin for the Word ‘Pícaro’?,” Romance Notes 42.2 (Winter 2001): 153-60