Dr. Chico-Wyatt specializes in Spanish Poetry with emphasis in 20^th Century Peninsular Poetry, and especially the poetic group known as The Generation of 1927. My research focuses on the influence of avant-garde movements in the creation of Spanish poetry of that period, and I am particularly interested in the women poets of that generation, who have been traditionally ignored by the canon. Since most students are generally scared of poetry, in my classes I try to dissipate their fears by establishing the connections between poetry and music.

Biography

Irene Chico-Wyatt, born in Madrid, Spain, earned her B.A. in English from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Worked several years for the Vanderbilt-in-Spain Program in Madrid and served for one year as the Director of The Casa de España y las Américas at the University of The South, in Sewanee, Tennessee (1991-1992). In 1993 she came to the University of Kentucky, where she earned her Master of Arts and Ph. D. degrees. In August 2003 she moved to Charleston, South Carolina. There she taught at the College of Charleston where she worked as Assistant Professor of Spanish and served as Study Abroad Advisor.