Education:
Ph.D. 2009
Tulane University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Primary Field: Early Modern Spanish Literature
Secondary Field: Romanticism and Film Studies
Dissertation: Queen in Heaven, Queens on Earth: Avatars of the Virgin Mary in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Theater
Director: Laura R. Bass
Readers: Henry W. Sullivan, James Boyden
Classes taught at Grinnell College:
SPAN 295 Films of Almodóvar
SPAN 312 Spanish Women Writers
SPAN 320 Early Modern Visual Culture
SPAN 386 Early Modern Seminar in Spanish Literature
Tutorial Art Activism
All courses from language program: SPAN 105, SPAN 106, Span 217 and SPAN 285
General research interests: Theater/Performance, Transatlantic Studies, and Visual Culture
Presently working on:
The Politics of Feast and Space: Academic Festival Books and the Rise of Institutional Power in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America
Recent publications:
Books
The Comedia of Virginity: Mary and the Politics of Seventeenth-Century Spanish Theater. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2012.
Articles
“From the Street to the Stage: Performing Faith in the Virgin’s Immaculacy at the University of Salamanca” Bulletin of the Comediantes. 64.1(2012).
“In the Gilded Cage: Chocolate and Widowhood in Calderón de la Barca’s El pésame de la viuda”GESTOS: Revista de teoría y práctica del teatro hispánico. 26.5. (2011):57-92.
Recent Conference Presentations:
“Mapping Early Modern Festivals.” Conversations in the Humanities. Grinnell College. October 5, 2012.
“Teaching Early Modern Visual Culture in the Liberal Arts Context.” Visual Learning Conference. Carleton College. September 28-30, 2012.
“Buscando la procesión: polarización y controversia en mapas inspirados por una relación de fiestas de la Universidad de Salamanca (1618).” Congreso Internacional Teatro y Fiesta Popular y Religioso. Cusco, Peru June 4-7, 2012.
“Mapping Faith at the University of Salamanca: The 1618 Celebrations in Honor of the Immaculate Conception” 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. Lisbon, Portugal. June 30-July 3, 2011.
“Dogs, Demons and Temptation: The Curious Case of Santa Rosa de Lima” Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA. April 1-4, 2010.
“From the Steet to the Stage: Performing Faith in the Virgin’s Immaculacy at the University of Salamanca.” AHCT Golden Age Theater Symposium. El Paso, Texas. March 4-6, 2010.
Honors and Awards:
Harris Research Fellowship for Academic Year 2013-2014.
NEH Summer Institute on Mapping and Art in the Americas 2010 (Newberry Library).
