Dawn Bratsch-Prince
Department Chair
Professor
Dawn Bratsch-Prince, professor of Spanish, has been a member of the Iowa State
faculty since 1990. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from New
York University in Spanish (1983, 1985). She has a Ph.D. in Romance Philology
from the University of California at Berkeley (1990). Bratsch-Prince's scholarly
specialty is medieval Iberian languages, literatures, and cultures, focusing
primarily on 14th century Aragonese and Catalan prose writing. With the conclusion
and publication of a critical edition and study of The Aragonese Version of
Brunetto Latini's Li livres dou tresor, she has chosen to focus on women's writing
of the period, particularly women's use of letters as a means of private and
publication communication. Her most recent monograph, titled Vida y epistolario
de Violante de Bar (1365-1431) Duquesa de Gerona y Reina de Aragón (Biblioteca
de Mujeres, Madrid, 2002), studies the life and letters of Violant de Bar, whose
45 volumes of correspondence are housed in the Arxiu de la Corona d’Aragó (Barcelona).
She is currently under contract with Palgrave/St. Martin's Publisher's for an
English-language study of self representation in and historical reconstruction
of Violant de Bar. She has served as chair of Iowa State University's Department
of Foreign Languages and Literatures since July 2002.
