A feminist Latina studying American and British literature and visual culture, Laura Hartmann-Villalta (she/her/hers) is a nationally recognized instructor who teaches at Johns Hopkins University as a Senior Lecturer in the University Writing Program. Recent publications include the book chapter, “Writing Guernica, Dancing Spain: How US Poets and Artists Reacted to the Spanish Civil War and the War’s Legacy in the 20th Century” in the collection The Spanish and Latin American Legacy in North American Poetry and Art and a double gallery review of Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA at the Baltimore Museum of Art and Dorothea Lange: Seeing People at the National Gallery of Art for Modernism/modernity. She is currently at work on a book manuscript on how foreign women writers and photographers responded to the Spanish Civil War.
Laura Hartmann-Villalta
Contributions
Gertrude Stein in Circles: An Exhibition Review of Stein’s Life and Fandom at the George Peabody Library
The George Peabody Library in Baltimore, Maryland is not accessible from the street; one must traverse two anterooms before entering into that magnificent, public library.
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.