Jessica Folkart
- Department Chair
- Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Jessica A. Folkart (PhD, 1998, University of Kansas) is a professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech.
Folkart has authored two books, Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity (Bucknell University Press, 2014) and Angles on Otherness in Post-Franco Spain: The Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas (Bucknell University Press, 2002), and many articles on Peninsular Spanish literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Philosophy and Literature, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Hispanic Review.
Her current research examines the representation of identity, immigration, and the liminal body. In the Spanish Program she is a Contemporary Peninsular specialist, teaching courses such as Sex and Power in Post-Franco Spain, Phantasms in Spanish Film and Fiction, and Cultural and Literary Studies of Modern Spain.
Folkart has won numerous teaching awards and is a member of the Academy of Teaching Excellence at Virginia Tech.
