Mark J. Mascia, Ph.D., Department Chair, Associate Professor and Spanish Coordinator, received a B.A. (summa cum laude) in Spanish with a minor in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University (Department of Spanish and Portuguese). He joined the Sacred Heart University faculty in 1999. His research interests include Golden Age Spanish Literature (prose, poetry, and theatre of the 16th and 17th Centuries), 20thCentury Latin American Poetry, and the 20thCentury Spanish Novel. He has taught a wide variety of classes in Spanish at all levels, and has developed new courses in the major, among them the Society of Golden Age Spain and Spanish Golden Age Literature. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including The Romanic Review, Romance Notes, Hispanic Journal, andLetras Peninsulares, among others.
Articles
Emotion, Satire, and a Sense of Place: Two Spanish Rivers in Lope de Vega’s Sonnets, Languages Faculty Publications (2009)
The article presents a critique of sonnets that appear in the books "Rimas humanas" (1602),...
Constructing Authority in Lope De Vega's Egloga a Claudio: Self-Referentiality, Literary Judgment, and Ethics, Languages Faculty Publications (2005)
The poetry of Lope de Vega has most often been analyzed for its treatment of...
Pablo Neruda and the Construction of Past and Future Utopias in the Canto General, Languages Faculty Publications (2001)
Presents information on the poetry collection 'Canto General,' by Pablo Neruda. Elements of 'Canto General';...
The Sonnet as Mirror: Metapoetry and Self-Referentiality in Lope deVega's Rimas', Languages Faculty Publications (2001)
A study of the metapoetic and self-referential aspects of Lope de Vega's poetry. For this...
To Judge Through Verse: The Sonnets of Lope De Vega's La Circe and His Engagement with Literature, Languages Faculty Publications (2001)
Examines the literary style of Lope de Vega based on the collection of poetry 'La...