- Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish
- Email: colleen.mcalister@uri.edu
- Office Location: Swan 160
Biography
My classroom experience includes teaching all levels of Spanish language-acquisition courses (beginner, intermediate and advanced), as well as Spanish for Business, Spanish for Medical Professions and an Introduction to the Literature of Spain and Latin America. I have also taught beginner Portuguese language courses. I teach using language immersion and communicative methods, and strive to situate the language within its authentic cultural contexts in my courses.
Research
My research interests include nineteenth-century Spanish literature, ruins and archaeology in literature and visual art, Romantic and Gothic literature.
Education
Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A. in Anthropology and Spanish, University of Connecticut
Selected Publications
McAlister, Colleen. “Una enfermedad social: la histeria y los roles de género en Doña Milagros (1894), de Emilia Pardo Bazán.” Decimonónica, vol. 17, no. 1, 2020, pp. 50–64.
—. “‘Por qué vengo a estas torres olvidadas’: Carolina Coronado and Female Poetic Ruminations on Ruins.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol. 100, no. 4, 2023, pp. 403–429.