Yvonne Fuentes, Ph.D.

Professor of Spanish
School of Humanities College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

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M & W: 12:00 - 1:00; 3:00 - 4:00, & by appointment

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Yvonne Fuentes, Ph.D.

Yvonne Fuentes received her B.A. and M.A. from New York University, and her Ph.D. from the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. Her research has been primarily in the area of Spanish 18th and early 19th century literature and culture. Before coming to UWG, she held positions at Louisiana State University, Duke University, and Emory University. She has taught language, literature, and culture courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

She has published four books: El triángulo sentimental en el drama del siglo dieciocho, Inglaterra, Francia, España. Ed. Reichenberger, 1999; Mártires y anticristos: Análisis bibliográfico sobre la Revolución francesa en España. Vervuert / Iberoamericana, 2006; Leading Ladies: Mujeres en la literatura hispana y en las artes. LSU Press, 2006; Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies, 2021. 

Recent published articles and book chapters include: “Spanish Testaments, Wills, and Inventories: Bridging Heaven and Earth” special edition on “Eighteenth Century Last Wills and Testaments” in 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Vol. 30, Bucknell U Press, June 2025, pp. 83-97. “They Were Warned, Yet They Persisted.” Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies, 2021, 1-10;  “Dr. Vicente Alaño y Serviá and the Calaix de Sastre: Intersecting Threads.” Special Edition of Dieciocho. Hispanic Enlightenment, Anejo 6 (Fall 2020): 7-8; 31-50; “The French Revolution’s Echo in Spain,” in Teaching Representations of the French Revolution. MLA, 2019. (305-13); "Incest as Metaphorical Sites of Relations in Cándido María Trigueros’ El precipitado.” Anagnórisis. Revista de Investigación Teatral, 11 (June 2015): 20-42; “Urban and Labor Identities: Madrid’s Menestrales in Eighteenth-Century Sainetes and Plays.” Dieciocho. Hispanic Enlightenment, 37.2 (Fall 2014): 211-32.

 

  • B.A., Spanish, New York University (Madrid, SPAIN), 1978
  • M.A., Spanish Literature, New York University (Madrid, SPAIN), 1992
  • Ph.D., Hispanic Philology in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SPAIN, 1997

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“Recovered or Reshaped Collective Memory: Revisiting Writings of Gregorio Mayans y Siscar and Antonip Xavier Pérez y López.” Dieciocho. Hispanic Enlightenment, 48.2, Fall 2025, pp. 271-94.

“Spanish Testaments, Wills, and Inventories: Bridging Heaven and Earth.” 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. Vol. 30, Bucknell U Press, June 2025, pp. 83-97.

"They Were Warned, Yet They Persisted.” Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies, 2021.

“Dr. Vicente Alaño y Serviá and the Calaix de Sastre: Intersecting Threads.” Special Edition of Dieciocho. Hispanic Enlightenment, Anejo 6, Fall 2020, pp.7-8; 31-50.

“The French Revolution’s Echo in Spain,” in Teaching Representations of the French Revolution. MLA, 2019. Pp. 305-13.

“A Story of the French Revolution, Lost Keys, and the Calaix de Sastre.” Dieciocho. Hispanic Enlightenment, 39.2, Fall 2016, pp. 300-10.

“Incest as Metaphorical Sites of Relations in Cándido María Trigueros’ El precipitado.” Anagnórisis. Revista de Investigación Teatral, 11, June 2015, pp. 20-42.

“Urban and Labor Identities: Madrid’s Menestrales in Eighteenth-Century Sainetes and Plays.” Dieciocho. Hispanic Enlightenment, 37.2, Fall 2014, pp. 211-32.

“Texts and Images: Satirical Representations during the Spanish War of Independence.” Transitions: Journal of Franco-Iberian Studies: Enlightenments, Revolutions and Wars 1750-1850, 4, Fall 2008, pp. 48-72.

“Don Ramón de la Cruz y sus sainetes: víctimas de la bipolaridad historiográfica dieciochista”. Dicenda. Cuadernos de Filología Hispánica, 23, 2005, pp. 85-107.

“British Aesthetics and the Picturesque in Spain: Jovellanos’ Affinity with England.” Hispania, 87.2, May 2004, pp. 210-19.

“Two Endings to a Same Deception: The Stories of Federica and Caelia.” Hispanófila, 131, January 2001, pp. 21-30.

“Two English Sources in Jovellanos’ El delincuente honrado.” Dieciocho. Hispanic Enlightenment, 21.2, Fall 1998, pp. 101-12.

Fuentes, Yvonne, and Mark R. Malin (editors). Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies, 2021. (283 p) [BOOK] [View Publication External Resource]

Mártires y anticristos: Análisis bibliográfico sobre la Revolución francesa en España. Vervuert / Iberoamericana, 2006. (206 p) [BOOK] [View Publication External Resource]

Leading Ladies: Mujeres en la literatura hispana y en las artes. LSU Press, 2006. (204 p) [BOOK] [View Publication External Resource]

El triángulo sentimental en el drama del siglo dieciocho (Inglaterra, Francia, España). Edition Reichenberger, 1999. (343 p) [BOOK] [View Publication External Resource]

Languages

I have worked as a translator and interpreter in Spain and in the USA.

English: native speaker

Spanish: native speaker

French: basic reading level

Catalan: basic reading level