Jeannette Acevedo Rivera, PhD
Jeannette Acevedo Rivera, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Spanish
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
Jeannette.AcevedoRivera@csulb.edu | Office: AS-337
Research Interests
Jeannette Acevedo Rivera’s comparative research on nineteenth-century Spanish and French literature focuses on the intersection of gender constructions, material culture, and notions of writing and collection. She analyzes both literary texts and popular culture, exploring the ways in which women’s representation in literature and cultural products has evolved over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In recent years, Professor Acevedo Rivera’s research has focused on the nineteenth-century album, which she explores as an archival object, literary topic, social network, and gendered cultural practice. Her analysis of the album is based on the depiction of this fashion in nineteenth-century essays on social customs and literature (novels, plays, and short stories), as well as on the historical albums she has consulted in archives in France and Spain. In summer 2017, she was invited to give a talk about this topic at the Museo del Romanticismo, in Madrid.
Select Publications
- “Of Frivolous Female Collectors and Manipulative Male Contributors: The Depiction of the Nineteenth-Century Album in Essays on Social Customs.” Nineteenth Century Studies. (Volume 29, Spring 2019) https://rtsmusic.academia.edu/JeannetteAcevedoRivera
- “Entre botas, manteletas y vestidos: Los objetos de moda como significantes de la clase social en la novela Tormento, de Benito Pérez Galdós.” Decimonónica. (Volume 16.2, Summer 2019) http://www.decimononica.org/acevedo-rivera-16-2/
Teaching
At Cal State Long Beach, Professor Acevedo Rivera teaches upper-level undergraduate and MA courses. Her undergraduate curriculum includes from introductory courses, such as Cinema for Spanish Conversation (Spanish 314) and Introduction to Literary Analysis (Spanish 310), to more advanced ones, such as Spanish Civilization (Spanish 430), Literary Masterpieces: Spain (Spanish 330), and Hispanic Short Narrative (Spanish 350). The MA courses she teaches include The Invention of Spain: Visions in Conflict (Spanish 547), Romanticism and Realism (Spanish 548), National Romances of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America (Spanish 544), The Creators and The Created: Women Authors and Protagonists in Spanish Literature of the XVIII, XIX, and XX Centuries (Spanish 546), and Women and War (Spanish 593).
Education
PhD, Duke University, 2014
Department of Romance Studies, Specialization in French and Spanish Literature
Dissertation title: “Would You Write Something in my Album? Social Customs and their Literary Depiction in Nineteenth-Century France and Spain”
https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/9082
MA, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 2007
Department of Comparative Literature
BA, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 2004
Department of Comparative Literature
Links
- American Comparative Literature Association: https://www.acla.org/
- Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades: http://ailcfh.org/
- Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas, Inc.: http://www.galdosistas.org/
- Decimonónica: http://www.decimononica.org/
- Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies: http://incsscholars.org/
- Modern Language Association: https://www.mla.org/
- Nineteenth-Century Studies Association: http://www.ncsaweb.net/
- Sociedad de Literatura Española del Siglo XIX: http://www.ub.edu/slesxix/index.html