New Book Review out in Hispania
Picture of book Bodies on the Front Lines: Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean ed.
Marin Laufenberg
October 16, 2025
Dr. Marin Laufenberg’s latest book review appears in the Fall 2025 issue of Hispania, highlighting her ongoing scholarship in Hispanic studies and inspiring graduate students who will craft and publish their own reviews in her upcoming Spring 2026 Literary Theory course.
This just released! Dr. Laufenberg’s latest book review has been published in the Fall 2025 edition of the journal Hispania.
Laufenberg, Marin. Review of Bodies on the Front Lines: Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean ed. by Brenda Werth and Katherine Zien. Hispania, vol. 108 no. 3, 2025, p. 445-446. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2025.a968960.
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/968960/pdf
Interested in learning more about the academic genre of book reviews? The book review is a brief writing piece that helps researchers to evaluate potential usefulness of sources by engaging with colleagues’ substantiated opinions and critiques of a work.
In Dr. Laufenberg’s Spanish 5545 Literary Theory course in Spring 2026, students will tackle their own book reviews of recently published books in the field of Hispanic literature and culture. Students will end the course with a draft book review that when revised could be submitted for publication in a journal in our field.
Keep an eye out for this and other innovative new Spanish MA courses coming in Spring 2026!
The spring course schedule will be visible on October 13th and registration begins for graduate students on November 3rd, 2025.