Akiko Tsuchiya

Akiko Tsuchiya received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures from Cornell University and is currently Associate Professor of Spanish and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her areas of specialization include nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literature and culture, and gender studies. She is the author of a book on Galdós and has published extensively on nineteenth-century Spanish narrative and on women writers of contemporary Spain, in journals such as Hispanic Review, MLN, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, and Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. She has recently completed a book manuscript entitled: "Marginal Subjects: Gender and Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Spain," a project for which she was awarded a Fellowship at the Center for the Humanities during the Spring 2007 semester. She has served as the Peninsular Editor of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos since 2002, and was previously Reviews Editor (1995-2004) for the journal. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of Anales Galdosianos.

Professor Tsuchiya's recent courses in the Romance Languages department include: "Peninsular Literature II," "Nineteenth-Century Novel," "Discourses on Gender in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain," and "Topics in 19th-Century Spanish Cultural Studies: Deviance and Social Control in Nineteenth-Century Spain." Each spring semester, she also teaches "Feminist Literary Theory," a cross-disciplinary course in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.