Virginia (Jenny) Rademacher is Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Literature and Director of the Language Program. She teaches courses in Spanish language, literature and culture, along with interdisciplinary courses on the literature and culture of Spain and Latin America.  She has taught courses in Spanish language and literature at the University of Virginia, Randolph College, and Georgetown University.  At the University of Virginia, she was the recipient of a grant from Spain’s Ministry of Culture towards her current research. This study involves the relationship between approaches to uncertainty and risk in the fields of business and finance with literary approaches as seen through recent trends in Spanish narrative.  Among her work on contemporary Spanish fiction, her article “Postmodern Quest and the Role of Distance in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s El invierno en Lisboa” was published in the December 2007 volume of Ciberletras.  She has presented on topics as varied as the nexus between Roman Polanski’s Chinatown and the Spanish naturalist novel (“Naturalism and Noir”), and women and the neo-detective novel in recent Latin American fiction (“Chicks as ‘Dicks’”).  Prior to the decision to pursue the PhD in Spanish, Jenny lived and worked in Washington DC for many years, where she received an MA in International Affairs and Economics from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and was chief of staff to a Rhode Island Member of Congress. 

Areas of Expertise:  Modern and contemporary Spanish narrative
                           Latin American contemporary narrative
                           interdisciplinary applications of foreign language study