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Dr. Christine Blackshaw is a Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture. Her research interests include Spanish Romantic drama, poetry, and prose as well as historical fiction from the eighteenth century to the present. She has published, or has articles forthcoming, in Decimonónica: Journal of Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Cultural Production, Hispanic Journal, Hispanófila, Romance Quarterly, Hispanic Studies Review, Miríada Hispánica, Hecho teatral, and the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. Recently, she edited a published anthology titled, Mito e historia en la televisión for Editorial Albatros Hispanófila’s new Diálogos Peninsulares series.
Dr. Blackshaw is also the Director of the Office of Competitive Fellowships at Mount St. Mary’s University. Previously, she served as Associate Director for five years.
“Juan de Lanuza del duque de Rivas: ¿primer héroe romántico de la nueva nación española?” Hecho Teatral. no. 22, 2022, pp. 29-49.
“El Escorial as a Metaphor in Spanish Romantic Discourse.” Co-authored with Saribel Morales Rivera. Hispanic Studies Review, vol. 6, no. 2, 2022, pp. 1-18.
“Cambio de tiempo/Cambio de memoria histórica: El Ministerio del Tiempo’s Season Two Finale and Felipe II’s Historical Legacy.” Co-authored with Saribel Morales Rivera. Miriada Hispánica, no. 15, 2021, pp. 151-166.
Spiritual Instructions for The Discalced Carmelites who Profess The Eremitical Life. (Translation from Spanish) By Venerable Fr. Thomas of Jesus, O.C.D. Originally published in Spanish in Ávila by Católica Sigirano Díaz in 1950. Summer 2020.
Mito e historia en la televisión y el cine español. (edited anthology) Albatros Hispanófila, 2019.
“Constructing the Don Carlos Legend in Nineteenth-Century Spain.” Forthcoming in Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
“Martínez de la Rosa’s Edipo and Antonio García Gutiérrez’s El paje and Lessons on Penning an Oedipal Drama in 1830s Spain.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 94.3 (2017): 283-298.
“Duque de Rivas’s Ataúlfo and Aliatar: Exploring and Containing Monarchical Authority and Romantic Expression During the Early Fernandine Era. ”Decimonónica: Journal of Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Cultural Production.13.2 (Summer 2016): 18-31.
“Lovers and Mothers in Antonio García Gutiérrez’s El trovador.” Decimonónica: Journal of Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Cultural Production.12.1 (Winter 2015): 1-16.
“Perversions and Reversals: Hormesinda in Manuel José Quintana’s Pelayo.”Forthcoming inPerversiones decimonónicas. Literatura y parafilia en el siglo XIX.Ed.Jorge Avilés Díz. Valencia, Spain: Albatros Hispanófila, 2018.
“Nineteenth-Century Spanish Costumbrista Writers.” (Volume Advisor). Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism.Ed. Michael J. Hartwell. Vol. 304 (2015): Columbia, SC: Gale Cengage. 239-323.
“José de Zorrilla. 1817-1893.” (Volume Advisor). Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism.Vol. 298 (2015): Columbia, SC: Gale Cengage. 245-322.
“Ángel de Saavedra, Duque de Rivas.1791-1865.”(Volume Advisor). 978-1-58871-037-6. Ed. Katrina Oko-Odoi.Vol. 295 (2014). Columbia, SC: Gale Cengage. 175-322.
“El desengaño en un sueñoy las contradicciones simbólicas e ideológicas del duque de Rivas. ”Actas del XVIICongreso de la Asociación de Hispanistas. Vol. IV. Teatro. Ed. Debora Vaccari.Roma: Bagatto Libri, 2012. 325-330.
"Duque de Rivas's El desengaño en un sueño: A Contradictory Repudiation of Romanticism." Bulletin of Spanish Studies 89.3 (May 2012): 369-389.
"Joaquin Pacheco's Alfredo and the Father-Son Conflict in Spanish Romantic Drama." Hispanófila 164 (May 2012): 21-38.
"Between Enlightenment and Romanticism: Muslim Spain in Húmara y Salamanca's Ramiro, conde de Lucena." Romance Quarterly.58.1 (2011): 2-15.
"Don Álvaro or the Force of Paternal Impotence." Letras Hispanas. 6.2 (Fall 2009): 64-80.
"It is the East and Zulima is the Sin: Shifting Representations of Muslim Spain in Hartzenbusch's Los amantes de Teruel." Decimonónica: Journal of Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Cultural Production. 6.1 (Winter 2009):1-18.