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Susan Walter

Associate Professor, Spanish

susan.walter@du.edu

303-871-2182 (Office)

Sturm Hall, 2000 East Asbury Avenue Denver, CO 80208

Professional Biography

Susan Walter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish Language, Literary and Cultural Studies. She teaches classes primarily on Peninsular literature, film and culture. She earned her BA from the University of Wisconsin; at the University of Virginia she earned both her MA and PhD in Hispanic Literature. During her time at the University of Denver she led the Departmental summer program in Santander, Spain for fifteen years, coordinated the first and second-year language sequences for more than a decade and is currently the Director of the First Gen Program in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Degree(s)

  • Ph.D., Hispanic Literature, University of Virginia, 2004

Licensure / Accreditations

  • Meditation teacher

Research

Professor Walter is a scholar of late 19th- and early 20th-century Spanish literature. Her scholarship has explored the interplay of gender representation, narratology and social structures in literary works. The majority of her research to date has focused on the narratives of Emilia Pardo Bazán, Carmen de Burgos, and Miguel de Unamuno. These studies examine how representations of women intersect with broader social issues, including class, modernity, the double moral standard, access to discursive authority and female solidarity. More recently, her work has turned toward exploring the representation of the arts and their relationship to Spanish modernism as well as imagological approaches to travel writing. Finally, her commitment to pedagogical innovation in literary studies is reflected in an MLA volume on teaching literature which she co-edited and in a critical edition of the novel Memorias de un solterón (1896) tailored to the needs of students.

Featured Publications

Walter, Susan. “Virtud, clase social y solidaridad en La rampa de Carmen de Burgos. .” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 102.4 (2025): 373-388.
Torre, Javier, and Susan Walter. “Galdós, viajero en el laberinto de las identidades. .” Anales Galdosianos 59 (2024): 18-53.
Walter, Susan. “Motherhood and Social Progress in Pardo Bazán's Los Pazos de Ulloa.” Gender, Displacement And Cultural Networks Of Galicia. USA: Palgrave McMillan, 2022: 187-210.
Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Ed. Walter, Susan and Margot Versteeg. New York, NY, USA: Modern Language Association, 2017: 237.
Walter, Susan. “"Images of the femme fatale in the Short Stories of Emilia Pardo Bazán".” Romance Notes 55.2 (2015): 177-189.
Guardiola, María Luisa, and Susan Walter. “Mapping the City in La Tribuna.” Approaches To Teaching The Writings Of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Ed. Walter, Susan and Margot Versteeg. New York, NY, USA: Modern Language Association, 2017: 170-177.
Walter, Susan. “La sororidad y la herencia espiritual en La tia Tula de Miguel de Unamuno.” El Trauma En La Literatura Hispánica. Valladolid, Spain: Universitas Castellae, 2016: 249-258.
Walter, Susan. “"After the Apple: Female Sexuality in the Writings of Emilia Pardo Bazán." .” Decimonónica 9.2 (2012): 88-105.
Walter, Susan. From the Outside Looking In: Narrative Frames and Narrative Spaces in the Short Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Newark, Delaware, USA: Juan de la Cuesta, 2010: 177.