Dr. Liana Ewald

Liana Ewald, PhD (Boston University, 2007) specializes in Spanish literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a particular interest in the evolution of realism and the novel, the mediation of history through literary and cultural forms, and the representation of gender and women's issues in literature. Professor Ewald is working on a book manuscript that examines interrelated social, political and aesthetic problems in the novels and drama of Benito Pérez Galdós. Her teaching at SDSU includes courses on women novelists of the twentieth century, crime fiction in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and Spanish culture and civilization. Professor Ewald is Associate Graduate Faculty in the Department of Women's Studies. She is also Assistant Editor of Anales Galdosianos.