Rate My Professor Alyssa Selmer

Selmer's research centers on Spanish Golden Age theater and the novel, recuperating female voices of the Golden Age in transatlantic studies, contemporary marginalized voices of Spain, Spain's linguistic and cultural minorities, and Spain's position within the European Union alongside issues of immigration and emigration. She is authoring a book in progress titled Reconsidering the Case of María de Zayas: Readings through the Optic of the Monstrous. Her scholarly presentations include 'Building a Monster: Tortured Bodies in María de Zayas' at the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference in 2017, 'Enfreaking the Monstrous Hybridity of the Feminine in "El juez de su causa" and "La esclava de su amante"' at the 37th Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures in 2017, the Humanities and Arts Interest Group Lecture 'María de Zayas’s Baroque Labyrinth of Horror' at Cornell College in 2017, and 'Lo grotesco en El coronel no tiene quién le escriba' at the University of Minnesota in 2003. She teaches courses such as Beginning Spanish I-III, Intermediate Spanish I-II, Advanced Spanish Grammar, Writing in Spanish, Introduction to Literary Analysis, Topics in Peninsular Literature, 20th Century Peninsular Novel and Poetry, Don Quijote, Spain in Transition, and The Image of the Immigrant in Contemporary Spain. Selmer is a member of the Modern Language Association, Latin American Studies Association, and American Association of University Professors. She contributes to programs in Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice, Classical Studies, and Medieval & Early Modern Studies at Cornell College.