Mary Lee Bretz

MA, Stanford; Ph.D., Maryland. Her main teaching areas are 19th and 20th century Spanish Literature. Professor Bretz has written Voices, Silences and Echoes: A Theory of the Essay and the Critical Reception of Naturalism in Spain (1992); Concha Espina (1980); La evolución novelística de Pío Baroja (1979). Recently completing a book-length study on Spanish modernism and the changing vision of the other during the period from 1890 to 1930, entitled Breaking Borders. The Other(:) Spanish Modernism. She is the author of numerous articles on Spanish literature and the teaching of literature, appeared in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Hispanic Journal, Anales de la literatura española contemporánea, among others; co-author of the second year Spanish language, literature, and culture text book series Pasajes: Lengua, Pasajes:Literatura, Pasajes: Cultura, Pasajes: Actividades, Pasajes: Cuaderno de Práctica, now in its fifth edition.