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Bonnie McSorley, Associate Professor, Spanish

Received her MA and Ph.D. with a major in Spanish and a minor in Italian and Portuguese. Before coming to Northeastern, she taught as an instructor at both Loyola and Roosevelt University in Chicago. The primary focus of her research is twentieth-century Peninsular Spanish literature with special emphasis on the theater of post-civil war Spain.

Her dissertation, Perspectives of Reality, deals with three dramatists of the so-called generacion realista de la posguerra, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Lauro Olmo and Carlos Muñiz. She has published a number of articles and has presented papers at many conferences including the Northeast Modern Language Association, the University of Louisville Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, the University of Florida Comparative Drama Conference and the annual International Conference on Literature and the Visual Arts in Atlanta sponsored by the University of west Georgia. She currently teaches all levels of Spanish from elementary to advanced literature classes including Masterpieces of Spanish Literature l and ll. and twentieth-Century Spanish Literature. Through student nomination, she recently became an honorary member of the Golden Key Honor Society. In addition to her teaching, research and service activities, Professor McSorley is also an advisor for Modern Languages and liaison with the Honors Program. Feel free to contact Bonnie McSorley either via e-mail or through her office at 443 Meserve Hall 617.373.3656.