Barbara Riess

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Email: briess@allegheny.edu
Office Phone: (814) 332-2323
Office Building: RUTE
Office Room: 107
Box #: 30

Professional Title/s

Professor of Spanish, Chair - Department of World Languages & Cultures

Faculty Credentials

BA, MA, University of Connecticut PhD Arizona State University w/Certificate of Translation

Biographical Information

Selected Publications - Translations

  • An Address in Havana/Domicilio habanero. Selected Stories by María Elena Llana.
  • Critical introduction, translator’s note, translation. (Chico: Cubanabooks Press, 2014).
  • Puppet: A Chicano Novela by Margarita Cota-Cárdenas (University of New Mexico Press, 2000).

Selected Publications - Articles

  • “Telling the Revolutionary Tale: National Identity, Literary history, and María Elena Llana’s Liminal Cuba.” Latin American Literary Review, 2008 - 72(2008): 83-106.
  • “Counting Women, Women Who Count: A Cultural Measure of the ‘Revolution within the Revolution’” Cuban Studies/Estudios cubanos - 42 (2011), 115-35.
  • “The Niche in the Numbers: The Need for Programmatic Collaboration vs. Course Innovation in Liberal Arts Foreign Language Programs” Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) Bulletin - 44:2 (2018), 56-62.

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Office Hours

  • Monday: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Tuesday:  3:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Wednesday: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Thursday:  3:00 - 4:00 pm
  • Friday: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • And by appointment