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Rachel Burk

Associate Professor/Chair

rburk@ndm.edu 410-532-3187 Feeley International Center (FIC) 012
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Biography

Rachel Burk is an Associate Professor of Spanish, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages, and the Morrissy Faculty Fellow. She has held positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Tulane, and the Universidad de Lisboa, where she spent a semester as a Fulbright Scholar.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, University of Pennsylvania M.A. in Hispanic Cultural Studies, Columbia University A.B. in English, Columbia University

Research

Interests

  • Spanish language pedagogy, literary and cultural studies of early modern Iberia and colonial Latin America, anti-racist pedagogy, premodern critical race studies, gender studies, visual culture, theater and performance studies

Publications

  1. Dr. Burk's scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, The Cultural Politics of Blood (2015), Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies (2017), and De sangre y leche: raza y religión en el mundo ibérico (2021) among other publications.

Presentations

  • Dr. Burk's scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, The Cultural Politics of Blood (2015), Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies (2017), and De sangre y leche: raza y religión en el mundo ibérico (2021) among other publications.

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

  • American Association of University Professors GEMELA Modern Language Association Renaissance Society of America Sixteenth-Century Society.

Awards

  • NDMU Committee for Faculty Research and Development awards for research, conferences, professional development, 2015-2021 Fulbright Scholar (Portugal), Fall 2012 NEH Summer Institute, Folger Library, Washington, DC, Summer 2010 University of Pennsylvania Franklin Fellowship, 2001-2006.