Rebecca Haidt is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, specializing in Iberian Studies. Her research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish cultural studies. Areas of inquiry include body, gender, urban imaginaries, early photography, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century visual cultures, urban studies, material culture, costume and clothing histories, costumbrismo, popular theatre, narrative, exchange networks, and print cultures. She is on the advisory 
and editorial boards of Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Decimonónica,Dieciocho, and Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Embodying Enlightenment: Knowing the Body in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Culture was published in 1998 by St. Martin's Press and won the MLA's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize. Seduction and Sacrilege: Rhetorical Power in Fray Gerundio de Campazas was published by Bucknell University Press in 2002), and Women, work and clothing in eighteenth-century Spain by The Voltaire Foundation-University of Oxford in 2012. Currently she is working on three book projects: a study of early nineteenth century urban visual cultures; a study of majos; and a translation of nineteenth-century poetry, with a critical introduction and notes.
Sponsored by the Iberian Studies Working Group of the Humanities Institute.
