Jane Albrecht, Associate Professor, teaches Spanish language and literature and conducts research in sixteenth and seventeenth- century Spanish literature. She has lead the WFU semester-in-Salamanca program four times. Her two books, Irony and Theatricality in Tirso de Molina (Ottawa: Dovehouse, 1994) and The Playgoing Public of Madrid in the Time of Tirso de Molina (New Orleans: UP of the South, 2001) and many articles are on seventeenth-century theater.  In addition, she has written two articles about the picaresque novel, Lazarillo de Tormes: “Linguistic Style and Point of View in Lazarillo de Tormes” (Neophilologus, 1993) and “Is There Another Pattern of Origin for the Word ‘Pícaro’?” (Romance Notes, 2001). She is currently working on a book on seventeenth-century Spanish tragedy.  Her Ph.D. is from Indiana University, where she also received a National Defense Fellowship to learn Catalan.