Education
Ph.D., Hispanic Studies, Northwestern University, 1993.
MA, Foreign
Language and Literature (Spanish), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
1988.
BA, Spanish, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1984.
Recent and Forthcoming
Publications
Books
Craig-Odders, Renée and Jacky Collins. Eds. Crime Scene Spain:
Investigations of Place in Contemporary Spanish Crime Fiction. McFarland
& Co., Inc., Publishers, 2009.
Craig-Odders, Renée, Jacky Collins
and Glen S. Close. Eds. Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction:
Essays on the Género Negro Tradition. McFarland & Co., Inc.,
Publishers, 2006.
Craig-Odders, Renée. Democracy, Disillusionment and
Beyond: The Detective Novel in Post-Franco Spain. University Press of the
South, 1999.
Articles
“Sin, Redemption and the New Generation of Detective Fiction in Spain:
Lorenzo Silva’s Bevilacqua series,” in Ciberletras: Journal of literary
criticism and culture, Volume 15, July, 2006.
http://www.lehman.edu/ciberletras/
“Digging up the Cultural Past of
Galicia: Carlos Reigosa’s Nivardo Castro Series” in Clues, 2006.
“Intertextuality in Esther Tusquets’ Con la miel en los labios,” in
Romance Languages Annual, 1999.
“Fantasy and Reality in Rosa
Montero’s Bella y oscura,” in Visión de la Narrativa Hispáncia:
Ensayos, 1999.
"Realismo crítico and Narrative Strategy in Post- Franco
Spanish Detective Fiction: The Case of Andreu Martín," in Romance Languages
Annual, 1997.
Chapters
“Barcelona: ‘la gran novela negra’ in
Francisco González Ledesma’s Inspector Méndez Series ” in Craig-Odders, Renée
and Jacky Collins. Eds.
Crime Scene Spain: Investigations of Place in
Contemporary Spanish Crime Fiction. McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers,
2009.
Introduction to
Crime Scene Spain: Investigations of Place in
Contemporary Spanish Crime Fiction. Craig-Odders, Renée and Jacky Collins.
Eds. McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, 2009.
“The Female Eye:
Feminism and Cultural Citizenship in the Police Novels of Alicia Giménez
Bartlett.” Accepted for publication in Alicia
Giménez- Bartlett/Petra
Delicado: Documenting the Rise of a Female Detective. (forthcoming 2009)
“Shades of Green: The Police Procedural in Spain.” In Craig-Odders,
Renée, Jacky Collins and Glen S. Close. Eds.
Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian
Detective Fiction: Essays on the Género Negro Tradition. McFarland &
Co., Inc., Publishers, 2006. 103-122.
Introduction to
Hispanic and
Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction: Essays on the Género Negro Tradition.
Craig-Odders, Renée, Jacky Collins and Glen S. Close. Eds. McFarland & Co.,
Inc., Publishers, 2006. 1-15.
Recent and Upcoming Conference
Presentations
“Gender, Power and Identity in the Police Novels of Alicia
Giménez Bartlett,” at the Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention
held Nov. 14-16, 2008 in Minneapolis, MN.
“Motherhood, Marriage and
Misogyny in the Petra Delicado Series,” at XVIII Congreso de la Asociación
Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica held October 16-18,
2008 at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA.
“Barcelona: ‘la gran novela
negra’ in Francisco González Ledesma’s Una novela de barrio.”At the Kentucky
Foreign Language Conference held April 17-19, 2008 at the University of
Kentucky, Lexington.
“Regional Autonomy and Collective Identity in the
Spanish Detective Novel The Case of Carlos González Reigosa.” At International
Conference on Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th-21st
Century held May 4-5, 2007 at the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.
“Francisco González Ledesma’s Inspector Méndez Series: donde las calles
de Barcelona duermen su nostalgia.” At Midwest Modern Language Association
Annual Convention held Nov. 9-12, 2007 in Cleveland, OH.
“Morality and
Gender in the Police Novels of Alicia Giménez Bartlett.” At the XVII Congreso de
la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica held at
the Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos del Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas de Sevilla Oct. 24-26, 2007 in Seville, Spain 24-26.
“The Female Eye: Feminism and Cultural Citizenship in The Police Novels
of Alicia Giménez Bartlett.” At Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures
held Oct- 4-6, 2007 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Demarginalizing Spanish Detective Fiction: The Case of Carlos González
Reigosa,” at Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures held Nov. 16-18,
2006 at the University of Missouri, CO.
“Méndez at the Crossroads: The
Detective Fiction of Francisco Gónzalez Ledesma at Midwest Modern Language
Association Annual Convention held Nov. 9-12, 2006 in Chicago, IL.
“Shades of Green: The Police Procedural in Spain.” At the Midwest Modern
Language Association 45th Annual Convention, November 4-7, 2004, St Louis, MO.
“Galician Gumshoe Uncovers Smoking Gun Once Again in Tobacco Traffic
Case: Carlos Reigosa’s
La Guerra del Tabaco and Other Nivardo Castro
Cases,” at the Midwest Modern Language Association 45th Annual Convention,
November 7-9, 2003, Chicago, Illinois.
“Generic Transgressions and
Intertextuality in Two Novels by Lorenzo Silva,” June 27, 2002 at The Hispanic
Detective Conference, held at Royal Holloway University, London, June 27-30,
2002.
“Cinema, Music and Narrative Structure in Ignacio Martínez de
Pison’s “Otra vez la noche,” September 23, 2000 at the Mid-America Conference on
Hispanic Literature held at UW-Madison.
“Fantasy and Reality in Rosa
Montero’s
Bella y oscura,” October 23-24, 1998 at XXVI Congreso Annual de
Literaturas Hispánicas held at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
“Intertextuality in Esther Tusquets’
Con la miel en los labios,”
October 16-17, 1998 at Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages,
Literatures and Film held in West Layfayette, Indiana.
“Realismo crítico
and Narrative Strategy in Post-Franco Spanish Detective Fiction: The Case of
Andreu Martín,” October 11, 1996 at Purdue University Conference on Romance
Languages, Literatures and Film held in West Layfayette, Indiana.
Courses Taught
- Beginning Spanish (101, 102)
- Intermediate Spanish (211, 212)
- Intermediate Spanish (313, 314)
- Introduction to Spanish Literature (340)
- Advanced Composition and Conversation (345)
- Spanish for the Professions: Business (355)
- Spanish Culture and Civilization (481)
- Advanced Literature Courses:
- Twentieth-century Spanish Novel
- Literatura femenina de la posguerra española
- Literatura de la posguerra española
- Cervantes
- El cuento hispánico
Honors
2009 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Scholar Award.