Professor Linhard’s work centers on experiences of displacement and asylum in the 1930s and 1940s and on the ways in which literary texts and other cultural artifacts depict the lived experience of moving across actual and imagined borders. She is particularly committed to understanding how displacements that happened in the twentieth century relate to those of the present day. Trained in Hispanic Studies, her research has contributed significantly to Spanish and Mexican literature and film, Migration Studies, and Jewish Studies. Her new book Agents’ Secrets, involves the relationship between gender and espionage during the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the early years of the Cold War. The book will feature research on the lives and times of África de las Heras, Olga Benario, Hilde Krüger, and Margarita Nelken, among others. 

Professor Linhard has taught courses on Spanish and Spanish American literature and cultural studies, Global Studies, the Holocaust, and migration. Her classes and seminars include “The Spanish Civil War,” “War, Migration, and Human Rights,” “Storytelling: From Oral Traditions to Radio Ambulante,” “Displacement and Asylum in World Literature,” “The Holocaust in the Sephardic World,” “All about Spanish Cinema,” and “Mediterranean Cultural Studies.”

She is a faculty co-lead of Moving Stories, a collaborative research project on migration and belonging, housed at Washington University in St. Louis and  one of the founding members of the Genealogías de Sefarad Research Collective. In 2021, she coordinated the installation of Hostile Terrain 94 @ Washington University in St. Louis.

Books

Unexpected Routes. Refugee Writers in Mexico (Stanford UP, 2023)

Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory (Stanford UP, 2014)

Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War (U of Missouri P, 2005)

Edited Volumes

Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space (Palgrave, 2018)

Revisiting Jewish Spain in the Modern Era (Routledge, 2013)

Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Mediterranean Geographies” (contribution to Oxford Handbook of Literature and Migration, Oxford University Press) 

 “Bitter Coexistences: Writing the Holocaust in Latin America,” (contribution to Cambridge History of Holocaust Literature, Cambridge University Press)

“Imaginary Worlds: Karl May and the Refugees,” Patterns of Prejudice 57.4-5, “Holocaust Refugees and the Colonial World” (2023), 287-303.

 “Margarita Nelken y Anna Seghers: Telarañas de intriga y espionaje,” Literatura mexicana 24.2 (2023), 59-81.

“Writing Mobility, Writing Stillness: Silvia Mistral’s Transatlantic Displacements,” Comparative Literature Studies 60. 1 (2023), 95-122.

“A Novel that Never Was: Ruth Rewald’s Vier Spanische Jungen,” Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War: In Search of Poetic Justice. Edited by Cynthia Gabbay (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)

“A Tale in the ‘Language of my Mother Spain’: Carmen Pérez-Avello’s Un muchacho sefardí,” Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History. 18 (December 2020)

Teaching Areas

Spanish and Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies

Comparative Literature

Migration Studies