Laura Hartmann-Villalta (she/her/hers) is a feminist Latina scholar whose research in modernist studies lies at the intersection of women’s lives, visual culture, human rights, and war. During AY 2023–2024, Hartmann-Villalta is Chair of the MLA’s Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession, reflecting her dedication to the shared interests of tenure-track and contingent faculty faced with catastrophic financial cuts across American higher education.
Laura Hartmann-Villalta
Contributions
Precarity, Caregiving, and Covid
In the years after the Spanish Flu, no one wanted to talk about it. Elizabeth Outka describes this phenomenon of cultural erasure in her timely book Viral Modernism (2019).[1] A global pandemic that killed more people than World War I was rarely represented directly in modernist literature.
How I Talk about Activism without Talking about Activism
As a scholar of modernism and the Spanish Civil War, I have long been engaged with others’ ideas about engagement—both modernists and scholars of modernism—questioning the intersection of politics and art.