Rate My Professor Angela DeLutis-Eichenberger

Angela DeLutis-Eichenberger is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Dickinson College, where she joined the faculty in 2010 and currently serves as Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She earned a B.A. and B.S. from Ithaca College in 2001, an M.A. from the University of Maryland-College Park in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Maryland in 2010. Her academic career at Dickinson includes teaching Spanish language courses such as Intermediate Spanish and literature-focused classes like First-Year Seminar on Latin American Short Stories, as well as advanced seminars such as Reading the Southern Cone: Lessons in Sustainability.

Professor DeLutis-Eichenberger's research primarily focuses on the nineteenth century and the Southern Cone, with specific work on Andrés Bello, José Victorino Lastarria, and Alberto Blest Gana. Her publications include 'National Consciousness and Shared Americanism in Hero Formation: Representations of Andrés Bello in Nineteenth-Century Chile' in Bulletin of Spanish Studies (2016), 'Anecdotes of Bastardy in Andrés Bello's Gesta de Mió Cid and Regulations for Illegitimacy in His Código Civil: Authorial Correlations' in Revista Hispánica Moderna (2016), 'Perverting the “Natural” in José Victorino Lastarria’s “El mendigo”: Herderian Manipulations to Contest the Colonial Era and the Portalian Regime to Progress' in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (2019), 'Re-legitimizing the Unfaithful Bastard Traitor: Re-productive and Contestatory Intertextuality in Andrés Bello’s Gramática and Orlando' in Decimonónica (2020), and 'Countering Acts of Dispossession through Alberto Blest Gana’s Mariluán' in Open Cultural Studies (2021). She also authored the chapter 'The Body and Incorporeal Signifier of “Andrés Bello”, and the 2011 Chilean Student Movement' in the edited volume Negotiating Space in Latin America (Brill Publishers, 2020), which received the 2020 “Outstanding Academic Title” Award from Choice Magazine. Currently, she is writing a book on Church-State relations in Chile during the second half of the nineteenth century. Beyond research and teaching, she supervises student-faculty research projects, serves as faculty advisor for Sigma Delta Pi National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, participates on the Global Education Advisory Committee, and was a fellow in the Valley & Ridge sustainability project.