Dr. Stacy Davis
Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of Second Language Instruction
Spring 2026 Office Hours
Tuesdays/Thursdays: 11-1
Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays: 11-4 Virtual hours by appointment
B.A. Hollins College (1997)
M.L.A. University of Richmond (2006)
Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis (2016)
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century Peninsular Literature; masculinity studies, the indiano as an intersection of gender and empire; the Realist Novel; the short stories of Emilia Pardo Bazán.
Dr. Davis enjoys teaching all levels of Spanish language, culture, and literature, along with upper-level courses. With her specialty in Second Language Acquisition, she also teaches the graduate-level methods course for future language instructors. Dr. Davis also works closely with students in Linguaprofs, a pre-professional organization for MAE and pre-MAE French, Spanish, and ESOL teachers.
Her recent publications include:
Book Chapter in an Edited Volume: “Tuitteando Tristana: Bringing the Literature Classroom Online through Microblogging,” MLA Approaches to Teaching Galdós (Spring 2026)
Book Review: Rebecca Ingram’s Women’s Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain, Anales Galdosianos, Vol. 59, 2024, pp. 116-8.
Article: “Imperial Anxieties and Urbane Transgressions: The Indianos of Benito Pérez Galdós’s Lo prohibido” in Decimonónica: Revista de producción cultural hispánica decimonónica (Winter issue, 2023).
Article: “Rompecabezas alegóricas: Armando dos piezas compartidas en la cuentística de Benito Pérez Galdós y Emilia Pardo Bazán” (Anales Galdosianos, 57 Número monográfico: Pardo Bazán y Pérez Galdós: consonancias y convergencias con ocasión de dos centenarios, 2022, p. 125-41).
Book Chapter as part of Edited Volume: “La alegoría metaficticia de la muerte del arte en Doña Berta” in Crear entre mundos: nuevas tendencias en la metaficcion española (Editorial Albatros, published September 2021).