PCAL Modern Languages Directory - Inmaculada Pertusa

Inmaculada Pertusa, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish

Office:  231 FAC
Phone:  745-8772
Email:  inma.pertusa@wku.edu

Courses

Advanced Spanish, Spanish Literature and Culture

Research

Dr. Pertusa's area of specialization is contemporary Peninsular and Latin American Literature. She was co-editer of the book Tortilleras: Latina Lesbians (Temple Press 2003), and author of La salida del armario: Lecturas desde la otra acera (Libros del Pexe 2005), a book on the Hispanic writers Esther Tusquest, Carme Riera, Cristina Peri Rossi and Sylvia Molloy. She is also co-editor of  short stories anthology Un deseo propio. Cuentos de escritoras españolas (Barcelona: Bruguera 2009).Together with articles on Hispanic women writers, Dr. Pertusa also has published articles on instructional technology, and study abroad. She has taught courses on "Hispanic Female Dectective Fiction", "The Hispanic Theater", "Space and Literature", "Literature through Film Adaptation", "Short Stories by Spanish Women Writers", Spanish for Business, Spanish Culture and Civilization, and Spanish composition and conversation. She is the state director of the KIIS Study Abroad Program in Spain. She is the editor of the critical journal Ambitos Feministas, the president of Feministas Unidas, and past Secretary of Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica. She is currently working on a monography on female detective fiction in Spain.

Bio

Dr. Pertusa was borned in Spain. She holds a Licenciatura in Ciencias de la Información from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and Master on Documentación from the the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. She completed her MA in Hispanic Literature at the Univerity of Arkansas, and her PH.D at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Once upon a time she was a professional photo journalist, and worked for several Spanish newspapers like Marco Real, and the ABC. She won many photo contests in Spain, and now she thinks that one day she will drop everything and she will just dedicate her days to take pictures with her iPhone. She enjoys running, and has participated in way-too-many-for-her-age races in the USA and in Spain. She also likes singing and dancing but she is terrible at both (but don't tell her!). What she is really good at is cooking; she makes a mighty "paella" and wonderful "tamales". When she grows up she wants to be Betty White, but taller.