Faculty

Vialla Hartfield-Méndez,
Senior Lecturer in Spanish

507N Callaway Center
404/727-6392
vhartfi@emory.edu

Vialla Hartfield-Méndez holds a Ph.D. in Spanish literature from the University of Virginia.  Director of the Emory Scholars Program and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University, she came to Emory in 1992 after having taught at Vassar College and Drew University.  Professor Hartfield-Méndez is the author of Woman and the Infinite.  Epiphanic Moments in Pedro Salinas’s Art (Bucknell UP, 1996) and has published articles and book reviews on twentieth-century Spanish poetry and narrative in such journals as Hispanic Review, Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, and Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea.   She has also served on the Editorial Board of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos and as coeditor of the Review Section of the same journal. Recipient of the Emory Language Center’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Winship Award for Senior Lecturers, Professor Hartfield-Méndez directs the Theory Practice Learning Program, is faculty liaison for Project SHINE (Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders), and has served on two committees on implementation of Emory’s strategic plan in the area of Engaged Scholarship, by appointment of the Provost.