Curriculum Vitae
ELIZABETH MCCOY FRANKLIN LEWIS
EDUCATION:
Ph. D. in Spanish Literature, University of Virginia, May 1993
M.A. in Spanish Literature, University of Virginia, May 1989
B.A. in Spanish. University Scholar with Highest Honor, Auburn University, June 1987
DISSERTATION:
“Feminine Discourse in the Works of Josefa Amar y Borbón, María Gertrudis Hore and María Rosa Gálvez.” David T. Gies, Director
CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor of Spanish, University of Mary Washington. Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Mary Washington
PREVIOUS POSITION:
Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Mary Washington (Fall 2014- to Spring 2020)
TEACHING INTERESTS, COURSES TAUGHT
Spanish Language (beginning to advanced language courses Spanish 101, 102, 105, 201, 202, 205, 318: Grammar and Speaking)
Advanced Intermediate and Advanced Writing (Span317: Writing and Grammar and Span 413: Advanced Writing)
Spanish Literature (Span 312 Intro to Literary Analysis, Span 323: Survey of Spanish Lit I, Span 324; Survey of Spanish Lit II, Span 375: Nineteenth-Century Lit, Span 451: Cervantes, Span 475: Women Writers)
Spanish Culture and Service Learning (Span 320E: Charity in Spain and Latin America, Span 321: Service and Social Action in the Hispanic World)
Digital Studies (Span 413: Advanced Writing, FSEM100K3 Digital Don Quixote)
BOOKS:
Women Writers in the Spanish Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness . Aldershot, Hants, England and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishers, 2004.
Eve’s Enlightenment: Women’s Experience in Spain and Spanish America 1726-1839. Ed. Catherine Jaffe and Elizabeth Franklin Lewis. Lousiana State University Press, 2009.
Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment. Edited by Mónica Bolufer, Catherine
Jaffe, and Elizabeth Franklin Lewis. Routledge, 2020.
ARTICLES (selected):
“Meditando la noche desde la perspectiva de género: María Gertrudis Hore y Night Thoughts de
Edward Young.” Cuadernos de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, Special Issue, Hijas del sol. Escritoras,
traductoras, polemistas en la España ilustrada: nuevas vías de estudio para las escritoras del
XVIII en la tercera década del siglo XXI. Edited by Helena Establier Pérez. 32 (2022): 85-105.
“Practicing social activism: the spaces of women’s charity,” in Society Ladies and Philanthropy
during the Spanish Enlightenment: La Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito, 1787-1823. Edited by
Catherine Jaffe and Elisa Martín-Valdepeñas. Louisiana State University Press: 2022, pp 202-
219.
“La vieja y la niña: Women’s Humour in the Comedies of María Rosa Gálvez,” in Spanish
laughter: Humour and its sense in Modern Spain. Edited by Antonio Calvo Maturana. Berghahn
Books (Oxford, UK), 2022. 61-77.
“Women as Public Intellectuals During the Hispanic Enlightenment: The Case of Josefa Amar y
Borbón’s Ensayo historico-apologetico de la literatura española.” In Routledge Companion to the
Hispanic Enlightenment. Edited by Elizabeth Franklin Lewis ( U. of Mary Washington)
Catherine Jaffe (Texas State University) and Monica Bolufer (Universitat de Valencia).
Routledge, 2020. 112-125.
“Women and ‘Civic Motherhood’.” A New History of Iberian Feminisms. Eds. Silvia
Bermúdez and Roberta Johnson. University of Toronto Press, 2018. 50-57.
“María Gertrudis Hore (1742-1801): the Neoclassic Poetry and Enlightenment Thought of a Cloistered Spanish Nun.” Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism: A Transnational
Biographical History. Ed. Ulrich Lerner. Routledge, 2018. 63-72.
“Mapping Don Quixote’s Route: Spanish Cartography, EnglishTravelers and National Pride.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Volume 46 (2017): 35-48.
“Hispano-Irish Women Writers of Spain’s Late Enlightenment Period.” Routledge Companion
to Iberian Studies. Ed. Javier Munoz-Basols, Laura Lonsdale, and Manuel Delgado. Abingdon, Oxon: New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. 269-281.
“La «verdadera» Ilustración en «Fernando en Zaragoza, Una visión» de Frasquita Larrea (1814).” Actas del V Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Estudios del Siglo Dieciocho. Cádiz, Spain: Universidad de Cádiz, 2013. 835-841.
“Enlightenment Politics and Catholic Charity in Spain: Bernardo Ward’s Obra pia (1750) and Proyecto económico (1762).” 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. 19 (2012): 295-312.
“La caridad de una mujer: modernización y ambivalencia sentimental en la escritura femenina decimonónica.” “Cantad, hermosas”: Escritoras ilustradas y románticas. Anales de literatura española. Universidad de Alicante. 23 (2011): 185-205.
“Economía Doméstica: caridad y trabajo femenino en el discurso reformista de las mujeres ilustradas.” Ayer 78.2 (2010): 93-115.
“A su reina benéfica: representaciones de María Luisa de Parma.” La época de Carlos IV (1788-1808) Actas del IV Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del siglo XVIII. Ed. Elena de Lorenza Álvarez. Oviedo: Instituto Feijoo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, 2009. 697-705.
“Actos de caridad: Women’s Charitable Work in Eighteenth-Century Spain.” Dieciocho 31.2 (Fall 2008): 269-284.
“La ilustración de Eva: Enlightenment and Women’s Experience in Spain and Spanish America.” (co-authored with Catherine Jaffe).” La Ilustración de Eva: The Experience of Hispanic Women. Ed. Catherine Jaffe and Elizabeth Lewis. Lousiana State University Press, 2009, 1-14.
“The Sensibility of Motherhood in Josefa Amar y Borbón’s ‘Discurso sobre la educación física y moral de las mujeres’ (1790)”. Eightheenth-Century Women. 2(2002): 209-242.
” Drama by Spanish Women Writers 1770-1850.” The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature. Janet Pérez and Maureen Ihrie, ed. Vol. 1. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 187-190.
“Breaking Chains: Language and Slavery in María Rosa Gálvez’s Zinda (1804).” Dieciocho. 20.2(Fall 1997): 263-272 .
“The Tearful Reunion of Divided Femininity in María Rosa Gálvez’s Neoclassic Theater.” Letras Peninsulares. 9.2(Fall 1996): 205-216.
“Mythical Mystic or Monja Romántica: The Poetry of María Gertrudis Hore.” Dieciocho 16.1-2 (1993): 95-110.
“Feijoo, Josefa Amar y Borbón and the ‘Feminist’ Debate in Eighteenth-Century Spain.” Dieciocho. 12.2 (1989): 188-203.
PRESENTATIONS
INVITED LECTURES:
Book presentation of Society Ladies and Philanthropy during the Spanish Enlightenment: La
Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito, 1787-1823 (Edited by Catherine Jaffe and Elisa Martín-Valdepeñas) on Facebook Live. May 2022.
“La vieja y la niña: Humor femenino en las comedias de María Rosa Gálvez.” Congreso Internacional El humor y su sentido. University of Málaga (Spain), May 23-24, 2019.
“La práctica del activismo social y los espacios de la caridad femenina,” Experiencia de escritura colectiva. Una historia de la Junta de Damas de la Real Sociedad Económica Matritense (1787-1823). Seminar presented at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (MIAS), Casa de Velázquez, Madrid (Spain), November 18, 2019.
“El feminismo ilustrado español.” Graduate seminar presented with Catherine Jaffe at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. January 22, 2019.
Public presentation of A New History of Iberian Feminisms (Toronto UP, 2018) with Catherine
Jaffe and Silvia Bermúdez. University of California Santa Barbara. January 22, 2019.
“Amor caduco: Love, Aging, and Women Writers in the Spanish Enlightenment” Penn State
University Comp Lit Luncheon Series. February 19, 2018.
“Mapping Don Quixote in the 21st Century.” Virginia Latino Higher Education Network
(VAHLEN). Christopher Newport University. November 9, 2016.
“A Digital Humanities Project on Women and Charity in Spain 1786-1945: Four years, Three
Research Teams, Ten Students.” Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures, Center for Digital Research in the Humanitites, Women and Gender Studies
Program, and the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
February 26, 2015.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, Spanish Eightheenth and Nineteenth Century Literature:
“Translating genre and gender for Madrid audiences: María Rosa de Gálvez’s Bion, ópera lírica
en un acto traducida del francés (1804)”, Conference on GENDER, MODERNITIES AND THE
GLOBAL ENLIGHTENMENT, Organized by CIRGEN (Circulating Gender in the Global
Eighteenth Century), University of Valencia, Spain, February 23-25, 2022.
“Verisimilitude, entertainment, and the perils of augmented reality in Enlightenment Spain”.
Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 6-9, 2022.
“A Gendered Look at the Night: María Gertrudis Hore’s “Meditación” on Edward Young.”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Meeting. March 21-23,
2019.
“Civic Motherhood” in Roundtable Session “At the Crossroads of History and Iberian Feminist
Thought: In Memory of Maryellen Bieder (1942–2018).” Modern Language Association Annual
Convention. Chicago, IL. January 3-6, 2019.
“María Rosa Gálvez and the comedia de figurón.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language
Conference (MIFLC). University of Tennessee at Knoxville. October 4-6, 2018.
“Thomas Jefferson y María Rosa Gálvez: Los figurones literarios (1804).” Asociación de
Profesionales Hispanos en Estados Unidos (ALDEUU). University of Virginia, June 12, 2018.
“Los figurones literarios by María Rosa Gálvez, or How Women Get the Last Laugh.” American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL. March 21-25, 2018.
“The Female Anacreon? The Poetics of Female Friendship in Eighteenth-Century Spain.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference. Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016.
“Concepción Arenal´s ‘Voice’ in La Voz de la Caridad (1870-1884). Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. College of Charleston, October 15-17, 2015.
PRESENTATIONS – UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND ENGAGED LEARNING:
“A Small College Creates BIG Summer Research Opportunities for Undergraduates in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.” Poster presentation. ConnectUR Conference of the Council for Undergraduate Research. Washington, D.C. June 27-29, 2022.
“Adding and Improving English-Language Wikipedia Entries on the Eighteenth-Century Spanish
Women of the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito”, American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies Annual Meeting, March 30 – April 2, 2022.
“Digital Hunters and Gatherers: Student-Faculty Web Projects Across Disciplines.” Presented
with Andrea Livi-Smith. UMW Digital Scholars Institute Colloquium. November 5, 2014.
“Don Quijote Digital: Two Experimental Seminars to Celebrate 400 years of Innovation.”
Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC). Furman University, Greenville, SC.
October 16-19, 2014.
“Undergraduate Research and Open Learning.” Poster Presentation with URES Students.
OpenVA Open and Digital Learning Resources Conference. October15, 2013.
“The 18th century into the 21st: A Digital Humanities Project on Women and Charity in Spain,
1786-1936.” Roundtable Session ”The 18th into the 21st Century,” Digital Humanities Caucus.
American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC. March 16-
18, 2011.
“Incorporating Service-Learning in the Language Classroom.” AATSP session at the South
Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Annual Meeting. Birmingham, AL.
November, 2000.
SELECTED SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS
“Performing Gender and Capital in Early Modern Mexico and Spain.” Workshop conducted with Valentina Tikoff (Depaul University), Grace Coolige (Grand Valley State University) and Elena Deanda (Washington College). Attending to Women 1100-1800: Performance Workshop Series. Newberry Library. Chicago, IL. September 30-October 1, 2022.
University of Virginia Innovations in Pedagogy Summit. Charlottesville, VA. May 3, 2017.
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences Seminar for Department Chairs. Savannah, GA.
February 2-4, 2017.
A Domain of One’s Own Digital Faculty Initiative. January – March, 2013.
THATcamp ASECS workshop on Digital Humanities. American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX. March 21, 2012.
DHCommons Workshop “Getting Started in the Digital Humanities.” Modern Language
Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, Washington. January 5, 2012.
Teaching Innovation Project (TIP) Seminar on Service Learning. Spring 2004.
VACOOL Workshop on Service Learning. James Madison University. June 2000.
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
University of Mary Washington Digital Pedagogy Fellowship Award. Spring 2013.
University of Mary Washington Faculty Research Summer Stipend Grant, Summer 2011.
University of Mary Washington Teaching Fellow. Fall 2010.
University of Mary Washington Jepson Fellow. “The Concept of Caridad in the Literature of Spain: Origins, Expressions, and Applications.” August 2006- May 2007.
Research Grant. Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities, 1991.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (University of Mary Washington)
Member, University Communications Social Media Director Search. December 2022.
Member, University of Mary Washington Strategic Vision Working Group, Spring 2022.
Member, Career Center Director Search Committee, May 2022.
Member, Recruitment Committee Student Success Plan. Spring 2020.
Member. Center for Community Engagement Advisory Committee. Spring 2019 to present.
Member. Center for Community Engagement Associate Director Search Committee. Summer 2018.
Member. Civic Engagement/Service Learning Working Group. Spring 2017 to Summer 2018.
Faculty Fellow and Cohort Leader, Digital Scholars Institute, Spring 2014 to Spring 2015
Member, University Strategic Plan Task Force. Spring-Fall 2015.
Member, Sexual Assault Task Force. Spring-Fall 2015.
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee. Fall 2012 to Spring 2014.
Member. Faculty Handbook Committee. Fall-Spring 2010-2011.
Member. Faculty Affairs Committee. Fall 2007 to Spring 2010. Fall 2017 to Spring 2020.
Member. General Education Task Group. Summer 2007 to Fall 2008.
Spanish Career Adviser: Fall 2001 to present.
Spanish Assessment Coordinator. Fall 2005 to Spring 2007.
OTHER SERVICE
Member, LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Forum. Modern Language Society of America. January 2023-January 2028.
Editorial Board Member, Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment.
Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. President 2002-2003. 2012-2013. Secretary. January 2018 to the present.
Fulbright Hays National Screening Committee. English Language Teaching Assistantships, Spain. Fall 2009. Fall 2010.
Commonwealth Girl Scouts Advisory Board. 2022 to present.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. (ASECS)
Ibero-American Society for Eightenth Century Studies (IASECS)
Modern Language Association of America (MLA)
Delta Kappa Gamma International Society for Key Women Educators (DKG)
