Susan Polansky Bio

Susan received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Boston College. Her research in Peninsular Spanish Studies has focused on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish drama and narrative. Some of her work has centered on poet figures and narrators in the writings of members of the Spanish Poetic Generation of 1927 (Pedro Salinas, Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda). She has explored the place of the artist under censorship, in exile, and in the modern world. Her most recent book is The Poet as Hero: Pedro Salinas and His Theater (2005). It is a study of Salinas’s turn to writing plays in exile from Spain. His dramatic works continue the themes of his poetry, yet his exile forcefully focuses him on his own separation from Spain and the widespread social disruption caused by the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Susan has also published textbooks for the teaching of Spanish. Currently she is working on a study of mannequin figures in the work of Federico García Lorca. She is a recipient of the Elliot Dunlap Smith Award for Distinguished Teaching and Educational Service of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (2004) and the Barbara Lazarus Award for Culture and Climate (2006).

	Susan Polansky, Teaching Professor of Hispanic Studies and Head, Department of Modern Languages
	Susan received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Boston College. Her research in Peninsular Spanish Studies has focused on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish drama and narrative. Some of her work has centered on poet figures and narrators in the writings of members of the Spanish Poetic Generation of 1927 (Pedro Salinas, Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda). She has explored the place of the artist under censorship, in exile, and in the modern world. Her most recent book is The Poet as Hero: Pedro Salinas and His Theater (2005). It is a study of Salinas’s turn to writing plays in exile from Spain. His dramatic works continue the themes of his poetry, yet his exile forcefully focuses him on his own separation from Spain and the widespread social disruption caused by the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Susan has also published textbooks for the teaching of Spanish. Currently she is working on a study of mannequin figures in the work of Federico García Lorca. She is a recipient of the Elliot Dunlap Smith Award for Distinguished Teaching and Educational Service of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (2004) and the Barbara Lazarus Award for Culture and Climate (2006).