Linda M. Willem is the Betty Blades Lofton Professor of Spanish and teaches in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures. She holds a PH.D. from UCLA in Spanish Language and Literature. Her primary area of specialization is 19th-century Spanish literature, with a focus on Benito Pérez Galdós, Emilia Pardo Bazán, and Leopoldo Alas (Clarín). She has served on the Executive Committee of the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (International Association of Galdós Scholars) as a vocal from 2002-2005 and as the Secretary-Treasurer since 2007. Her other research area is Spanish film, with a focus on Carlos Saura, whom she has had the pleasure of interviewing twice, and on Pedro Almodóvar.
Articles
The Story Not Told: Sex and Marriage in Pardo Bazán's "Los cirineos" and "La argolla", Hispania (2012)
Note: Full text not available at this time due to publisher restrictions. Link is to...
From the Streets to the Screen: The Music of Madrid in Saura's Deprisa, deprisa, Letras Peninsulares (2008)
With a distinguished career as a director of over thirty-five feature films, Carlos Saura has...
The Music of Borgesian Destiny in Saura's "El Sur", Bulletin of Spanish Studies (2006)
Carlos Saura’s El Sur was aired on Spanish television in 1993 as part of a...
Rewriting Rendell: Pedro Almodóvar's "Carne trémula", Literature/Film Quarterly (2002)
The 1997 film Carne trémula has been lauded within as well as outside of Spain...
Latent Narratives: Sideshadowing in "Fortunata y Jacinta", Anales Galdosianos (2001)
In his book, Narrative and Freedom, Gary Saul Morson uses the term "sideshadowing" to identify...