Linnette F. Reed

Senior Professor of Practice Emerita - Spanish & Portuguese

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Emeritus Faculty
Region
  • Iberian Peninsula
Linnette F. Reed

Additional Info

Research

Spanish Golden Age Literature; Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Peninsular Literature, Hispanic Civilization and Culture

Degrees

  • M.A., Universidad de Salamanca, History, Art History and Geography, 1980
  • M.A., Texas A & M University, Spanish, 1985
  • Ph.D., Tulane University, Spanish, 1996

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Senior Professor of Practice of Spanish, Tulane University, 2018-
  • Professor of Practice, Tulane University, 2006-2018
  • Visiting Professor Lecturer, Amherst College, 2005-2006
  • Professor, Southern University at New Orleans, 1999-2006
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1996-1999
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Loyola University, 1996

Distinctions

  • LEQSF Louisiana Board of Regents Enhancing Grant, 2001
  • Stoll Foundation Endowed Scholars Committee Award, 2007, 2008, 2016

Languages

  • Spanish
  • French
  • Portuguese
  • German
  • Latin

Related Experience

  • Chair, Department of Foreign Languages, Southern University at New Orleans, 1999-2006
  • Free-lance translator for French, Spanish and Portuguese
  • Berlitz certified Court interpreter for French, Spanish and Portuguese
  • Active pro bono Court interpreter for French, Spanish and Portuguese,New Orleans Immigration Court
  • Community Outreach Volunteer and Translator, League of Women Voters in New Orleans

Selected Publications

  • Forthcoming, The Hispanic Reader. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • 2006. “Protofeminismo erótico-culinario en La Lozana Andaluza.” In Edad de Oro Cantabrigense. Actas del VII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Siglo de Oro. Anthony Close, ed. Madrid: Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert.
  • 2005. “¿Quién te hizo puta?: el vino y la fruta: El cuerpo como comida en La Lozana Andaluza.” Palimsepto. 4.
  • 2004. “Humor carnavalesco y erótico en La Lozana Andaluza.” In Humor Across the Ages: Essays on Luso-Hispanic Humor. Paul Seaver, ed. New York: The Edwin Mellen Press. 53-61.
  • 2004. “Protofeminismo, erotismo y comida en La Lozana Andaluza de Francisco Delicado.” Scripta Humanistica. Potomac: Maryland.
  • 2003. “Identidad sexual femenina a través de la comida: Como agua para chocolate y La Lozana Andaluza.” As faces de Eva. Centro de estudos sobre a mulher da universidade de Lisboa. 9: 106-117.