Education:

Ph.D.: The Ohio State University

M.A.: The Ohio State University

B.A.: Smith College

Dr. Angela Acosta joined the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures in fall 2024 as an Assistant Professor of Spanish Contemporary Literature and Culture. She completed her PhD in Spanish (Iberian Studies) in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University. She has previously taught courses on Spanish women writers and Spanish culture during the Franco dictatorship at Davidson College.

 

Acosta’s research on twentieth-century Spanish women writers lies at the intersection of Iberian literary and cultural studies, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, global modernism, and archival studies. As a feminist modernist, she investigates the aesthetic traditions of avant-garde modernist literature, the material conditions under which writers produced their work, and ongoing cultural preservation efforts in Spain. She is co-editor with Dr. Rebecca Haidt (The Ohio State University) for a fall 2024 Special Issue of Feminist Modernist Studies on Spanish Sapphic Modernity that situates Spanish agents (Tórtola Valencia, Ángeles Vicente) within wider modernist spaces of queer and feminist collaborations, conviviality, and coalition building. She is currently working on a book manuscript that traces the development of the literary canon of the Generation of 1927 and “las Sinsombrero” (“the hatless women”) from their origins in the 1920s to the present day by studying written and performed tributes to modernist writers. This work on canon formation repositions the Generation of 1927 as a transatlantic network of artistic collaborations across gender and genre through which writers like Vicente Aleixandre, Carmen Conde, and Amanda Junquera produced collaborative, multimedia work.