Alison Maginn, Ph.D.
- Professor of Spanish
- Department Advising Coordinator (DAC)
- Director, Study Abroad program in Cadiz, Spain
- Service Learning Faculty Fellow
Department: World Languages and Cultures
Office: Plangere Center 128
Phone: 732-571-3612
Email: amaginn@monmouth.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests
Proficiency-oriented language
Spanish history and art history
18th Century through 21st Century Spanish literature
Spanish film and cultural studies
Scholarly Articles
Dr. Maginn has published in AIH/University of Birmingham,Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Ciberletras, Letras femeninas, Siglo XXI, on issues related to female subjectivity; the intersection of postfrancoism and postmodernism; the transgressive drive of contemporary genre literature such as detective narrative, fantasy and female erotica.
Current work in progress and recent conference presentations have dealt with issues of memory and the Spanish Civil War; contemporary Spanish film and the radical force of street theatre and the carnivalesque.
Courses
Recently Taught Classes
2023 Fall
2022 Fall
2022 Summer E
- Curso Intensivo Ele Nivel A1.1 – FS 101
- Curso Intensivo Ele Nivel A1.2 – FS 102
- Curso Intensivo Ele Nivel B1.2 and Oral Discourse – FS 300A
- Curso Intensivo Ele Nivel B1.2 Daily and Practical Uses – FS 300B
- Intemediate Spanish 2 A2.2 – FS 202
- Intermediate Spanish 1 A2.1 – FS 201
- Soc Iss CADIZ(MID Level) – FS 317
2022 Summer D
- Intermediate Spanish II – FS 202
2022 Spring
2021 Fall
- The Literature and Culture of Post-Franco Spain – FS 415
2021 Summer A
- Intermediate Spanish I – FS 201
2021 Spring
2020 Fall
2020 Summer A
- Intermediate Spanish I – FS 201
2020 Spring
Frequently Taught Classes
- Advanced Spanish Conversation and Oral Discourse (FS 300A)
- Advanced Spanish: Composition and Conversation I (FS 300A)
- Advanced Spanish: Grammar and Stylistics (FS 409)
- Culture and Civilization Spain (FS 309)
- Elementary Spanish I (FS 101)
- Elementary Spanish II (FS 102)
- Intermediate Spanish I (FS 201)
- Intermediate Spanish II (FS 202)
- Introduction to Hispanic Literature (FS 301)
- Spanish Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (FS 403)
- Spanish Literature of the Twentieth Century (FS 404)
- The Literature and Culture of Post-Franco Spain (FS 415)