Angela Acosta Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

My creative and academic work center on imagining possible worlds and preserving the legacies of women and LGBTQ+ writers. I specialize in twentieth-century Spanish literature and culture with a focus on the lives and works of writers of the Generation of 1927 and “las Sinsombrero” (the hatless modernist women), including Vicente Aleixandre, Carmen Conde, and Amanda Junquera.

During my time as a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow at Smith College, I began engaging with life-writing, poetry, and archival materials pertaining to cultural memory and the Franco dictatorship, the formation of literary history, and female subjectivity. In my research and teaching on Spanish modernism, I examine tributes to male and female writers to study canonical exclusion, archival collection practices, and the construction of writers’ literary personas.

I am currently researching the development of Hispanic Studies in the United States and transatlantic collaborations between Spain and Historically Women’s Colleges in the Northeast United States during the 1920s and 1930s.

My scholarship and public humanities articles on female authored life-writing, the preservation of writers’ homes in Spain, and teaching Spanish 4564: Spanish Culture During Francoism at The Ohio State University have been published in Feminist Modernist Studies, Ámbitos Feministas, The Culture Clique, and ALBA’s The Volunteer.

My poetry and short stories in English and Spanish have appeared in Azahares Literary Magazine, Shoreline of Infinity, Apparition Lit, and Somos en Escrito. I am author of the speculative poetry collection Summoning Space Travelers (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022) and chapbook Fourth Generation Chicana Unicorn (Dancing Girl Press, 2023).