Maria Rippon

Maria Rippon

Associate Professor of Spanish

Curriculum Vitae
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Maria Rippon began teaching language and literature classes in Spanish and Great Books classes in English as a graduate student. After leaving Chapel Hill, she taught at Gannon University and Cabrini College in Pennsylvania before moving to the Charleston, SC area to teach at The Citadel. She has been teaching language, literature, civilization, and first-year writing classes at Furman since 2005. In 2013, she developed, with her sister Mary B. Rippon, MD, a May X class entitled Beginner Medical Spanish; a few years later, they developed and co-taught a four-credit class, SPN 302: Medical Spanish, which they teach every other spring. Maria has been researching, presenting, and authoring articles on the novels of Mercedes Salisachs since 2008 and has translated one of her novels to English. While she enjoys all great books, her recent work has focused on metafictional novels, historical fiction, and utopian literature

Education

  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • B.A., Mount Saint Mary's College

Research

  • Medical Spanish
  • Fictional Utopias and Dystopias
  • Metafiction
  • Historical Fiction
  • Narratives of crisis of faith
  • Nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century narratives and philosophies
  • Twentieth and twenty-first century Peninsular literature
  • Spanish Civilization
  • Narratology
  • Translation

Publications

BOOKS

  • Judgment and Justification in the Nineteenth-Century Novel of Adultery, Greenwood Press (2002)

ARTICLES

  • "The Privileged Perspectives of Queen Victoria Eugenia in Spanish Historical Fiction of the Twenty-first Century.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2019)
  • "'Ni novela ni nivola': The Purpose of Metafiction in Niebla and Los invisibles,” Hispanófila (January 2019)
  • "The Spiritual Bildung in Carmen Laforet and Mercedes Salisachs," L'Erudit franco-espagnol (December 2014)
  • "From Devotion to Disillusionment: The Changing Face of Penelope from Homer to Buero to Miras," Neohelicon (2013)
  • "Ideas of Hope and Fatality in Allende's La casa de los espíritus," Postscript (1998)
  • "The Battle of the Bulge," an original short story, and 3 short poems, Lighted Corners (1991)

Additional Professional Activities 

  • Placement Coordinator for Modern Languages

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