Professor Cappuccio is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of the Spanish and Portuguese program. She specializes in Hispanic poetry and contemporary Hispanic narrative. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Elementary and Secondary Education from Indiana-Purdue University and a Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Kentucky.

Research Interests

Contemporary Spanish women writers

Contemporary Uruguayan writers

The postwar Spanish novel

Feminist criticism

Courses Taught

Approximations to Hispanic Literature

Contemporary Spanish Women Writers

Readings in Modern Spanish Literature

The Spanish Detective Novel

Spanish for Business

Selected Publications

• Forthcoming translation of Rafael Courtoisie, Antología inventada (Arte Poética Press)
• Original short story “Mis queridos hijos,” Cuadernos de ALDEEU 36 (Winter 2021)
• "Fictional Afterlife: Narrative Ending in Selected Contemporary Spanish Writers" to be published in in The Journal of the Humanities; chapter "Gloria et al." (40-51) in In Her Words: Critical Studies on Gloria Fuertes, Margaret H. Persin, ed. (Bucknell UP: Lewisburg, 2011)
• Translations of poems in the Apalachee Review 48 (Spring 2000) and the Mississippi Review 28:3 (2000); "Black Birds at the Windows," translation of Margarita Merino's poem "Pájaros negros junto a los ventanales." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 10:3 (Summer 1997), 6-11
• "The Concept of Time in Victoria Urbano's Los nueve círculos" in an homenaje to Urbano edited by Adelaida Martínez, summer 1992
• "Hambre y poesía: una breve biografía de Gloria Fuertes." Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 18:2 (1993), 323-44 "Twisted Systems and Sisters: A Structuralist Analysis of La casa de Bernarda Alba." Hispanic Journal XIII:2 (1991-92, 37-46
• "Hambre y poesía: una breve biografía de Gloria Fuertes." Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 18:2 (1993), 323-44 "Twisted Systems and Sisters: A Structuralist Analysis of La casa de Bernarda Alba." Hispanic Journal XIII:2 (1991-92, 37-46