Tools

Email Page
Print Page

Margot Versteeg

Margot Versteeg, Assistant Professor, holds two MA’s, in Translation Studies and in Spanish Literature, from the University of Amsterdam and received her Ph.D. from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.  Her area of specialization is contemporary peninsular cultural studies, focusing mainly on the 19th and early 20th century.  Her book De fusiladeros y morcilleros.  El discurso cómico del género chico (1870-1910) was published by Rodopi in 2000.  She is currently finishing a book on the magazine Madrid Cómico entitled Madrid Cómico (1880-1923): cultural anxieties in an era of difficult modernization.  She has received a Grotius research fellowship from the University of Amsterdam, and research grants from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and various Dutch Research Organizations.  Her scholarly articles have appeared in, among others, Diálogos hispánicos, Foro Hispánico, Gestos, Excavatio, España Contemporánea, New Comparison, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Hispania, and forthcoming in the Journal of Iberian and Latinamerican Studies.  She also collaborates in the Parody Project of the Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes. In 2007 she directed KU’s Summer Language Institute in Barcelona.