I have published a
book on Baltasar Gracián, entitled Lenguaje y crisis: las alegorías
del Criticón (Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos, 1998). The book studies
in detail Baltasar Gracián's El Criticón as a complex manifestation
of Baroque culture in Spain. The main theoretical approaches deal primarily
with spatial representations, the modeling of subjectivities that defined
and constructed men and women as historical entities, and linguistic exploration
and creativity in the Baroque.
My subsequent research has dealt with spatial and visual representations
in several authors from the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Spain.
I have published articles on Cervantes' Persiles y Sigismunda and on "El
celoso extremeño", as well as on Garcilaso de la Vega, Sor
Juana Inés de la Cruz, and forthcoming articles on Antonio de Guevara
and the Abencerraje. I would define my research as the study of Golden
Age discourses and the way they articulate visual and spatial configurations,
especially as they relate to court society, countryside, cultural encounters,
frontiers, privacy, images of the house, and gender mobility and limitations.
I have also published articles on virtual reality and recent visual technologies.
I have taught courses in Don Quijote, Golden Age poetry and narrative,
as well as courses in theory. I recently taught a seminar in theory entitled
Fields of Vision: Golden Age Texts, which followed closely my most recent
research interests. Theoretical content is a crucial component of most
of my courses, as well as criticism and historical contextualization of
all texts read in class. The main pedagogical purpose of my course offerings
is to familiarize students with the most important critical commentary
on the authors discussed, formulate new critical problems by means of
readings and discussion of theoretical issues, and always contextualize
these problems within the historical parameters of each and every text
and author. Ample opportunities for research and participation are provided
in each course.
Lenguaje
y crisis:
las alegorías
de
el Criticón
|
El trazo
de la mirada:
escritura e imagen en
España
y Latinoamérica
|
| EDUCATION |
|
| 1991 |
BROWN
UNIVERSITY. Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Studies. |
| 1985 |
UNIVERSITY
OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN. Master of Arts in Hispanic
Literature (minor in Comparative Literature). |
| 1982 |
UNIVERSITY
OF PUERTO RICO, MAYAGÜEZ CAMPUS. Bachelor of Arts. |
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
(list
of some publications)
| BOOK |
|
| 1.
1998 |
Lenguaje
y crisis: las alegorías del Criticón.
Madrid: Fundamentos. |
| EDITIONS |
|
| 1.
2001 |
El
trazo de la mirada: Escritura e imagen en España y
Latinoamérica. Luis Avilés, Ivette Hernández-Torres
and José A. Rosado, eds. Special Issue, La Torre.
VI, numb. 20-21. |
| ARTICLES |
|
| 1.
|
"Los suspiros del Abencerraje". Article accepted
and forthcoming in the journal Hispanic Review. |
| 2.
2001 |
"The
Human Virus in the Machine: The Escape from Virtuality in
The Matrix and Abre los ojos". Bordes:
51-60. |
| 3.
2000 |
"Sor
Juana en el punto de fuga: la mirada en Este que ves, engaño
colorido". Bulletin of Hispanic Studies LXXVII:
413-431. |
| 4.
1999 |
"Tecnofilia
y fin de siglo: Hermes, o el viajero virtual". Latin
American Literary Review 27, num. 54: 68-79. Article also
requested and published in Nómada, 5 (2000):
3-10. |
| 5.
1998 |
"Fortaleza
tan guardada: casa, alegoría y melancolía
en El celoso extremeño." Cervantes
18: 71-95. |
| 6.
Fall 1996 |
"To
the Frontier and Back: The Centrifugal and the Centripetal
in Cervantes' Persiles y Sigismunda and Gracián's
El Criticón." Symposium 50, num.
2: 141-163. |
| 7.
1996 |
-"Contemplar
mi stado: las posibilidades del yo en el soneto I de Garcilaso."
Calíope Vol. 2, num. 1: 58-78. |
| 8.
1993 |
-"La
alegoría y la mujer monstruo: el problema de la representación
femenina en El Criticón de Gracián".
La Torre 7, num. 25: 79-93. |
| ARTICLES
IN BOOKS & COLLECTIONS |
|
| 1.
forthcoming, 2002 |
"El
lenguaje oculto de Zoraida: tensión histórica
y revelación narrativa en Cervantes". Homenaje
Hermanas López-Baralt. |
| 2.
2001 |
"Damas
(in)visibles, amores de oídas". Article included
in El trazo de la mirada: Escritura e imagen en España
y Latinoamérica. Luis Avilés, Ivette Hernández
and José Rosado, eds. Special Issue La Torre,
VI, numb. 20-21: 163-191. |
| 3.
1998 |
"Relaciones
horizontales y miradas penetrantes: Discurso y visión
en Petrarca y Gracián". Actas del XIII Congreso
de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas.
Vol. 3. Madrid: Castalia. |
| 4.
1997 |
"Surviving
in the Field of Vision: the Building of a Subject in Gracián's
El Criticón". Rhetoric and Politics:
Baltasar Gracián and the New World Order. Nicholas
Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens, eds. "Hispanic Issues"
Series, Minneapolis & London: The University of Minnesota
Press. 125-150. |
Links:
La
Biblioteca Nacional en Madrid
El País el periódico
en España
Información
sobre Cervantes:
http://csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes
http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8003/quixote/index.html
http://www.donquixote.com/
Course Syllabi:
Spanish 100A
Comparative Literature 100W
Spanish
239C
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