Laura Hartmann-Villalta

Bio

A feminist Latina studying American and British literature and visual culture, Laura Hartmann-Villalta (she/her/hers) is a nationally recognized instructor who teaches at Johns Hopkins University as a Senior Lecturer in the University Writing Program. Recent publications include the book chapter, “Writing Guernica, Dancing Spain: How US Poets and Artists Reacted to the Spanish Civil War and the War’s Legacy in the 20th Century” in the collection The Spanish and Latin American Legacy in North American Poetry and Art and a double gallery review of Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA at the Baltimore Museum of Art and Dorothea Lange: Seeing People at the National Gallery of Art for Modernism/modernity. She is currently at work on a book manuscript on how foreign women writers and photographers responded to the Spanish Civil War.

Contributions

Gertrude Stein in Circles: An Exhibition Review of Stein’s Life and Fandom at the George Peabody Library

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The George Peabody Library in Baltimore, Maryland is not accessible from the street; one must traverse two anterooms before entering into that magnificent, public library. It is in one of these anterooms—a very large open room with wooden floors and tall windows open to the street—that the Gertrude Stein in Circles: Spheres of Life and Writing exhibition was held from September 22, 2024 through March 2, 2025 at Johns Hopkins University. With material drawn from archives across Johns Hopkins’s...

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How I Talk about Activism without Talking about Activism

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As a scholar of modernism and the Spanish Civil War, I have long been engaged with others’ ideas about engagement—both modernists and scholars of modernism—questioning the intersection of politics and art. As a scholar at the margins of the academy, I have sought to make sense of where my own work might fit, both into the world of scholarship and the wider world in which scholarship takes shape. Now, in my new position as Director of the Engaged and Public Humanities Master’s at Georgetown...

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