ALISON PARKS WEBER
Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
115 Wilson Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Office phone: (434) 924-4647
Fax (434) 924-7160
E-mail: apw[at]virginia.edu
Home address:
1855 Westview Rd.
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Home tel: (434) 979-0810
Education
A.B. Spanish. University of California, Berkeley, 1969
M.A. Spanish. University of California, Berkeley, 1970
Ph.D. Comparative Literature. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1975
Honors and Grants
Rome-University of Virginia Summer Fellowship 2002
Research Associate in Women’s Studies in Religion, Harvard Divinity
School 1998-99
Member, Virginia Society of Fellows 1999-present
Committee for Cultural Cooperation between Spain and United States Universities
1997
University of Virginia Sesquicentennial Associateship, Spring 1995
University of Virginia summer research grant, 1993
University of Virginia summer research grant, 1989
Finalist, National Women's Studies Association/ University of Illinois Book
Conference Grant Competition, 1988
Recipient College of Arts and Science Grant, University of Virginia, Spring
1987
University of Illinois Fellow, 1971-72
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1969-70
Phi Beta Kappa, 1969
Academic Appointments
1989-present Associate Professor, Univ. of Virginia; Chair of Department 1995-98
1986-89 Assistant Professor, Univ. of Virginia
1983-86 Lecturer, Univ. of Virginia
1977-83 Part-time Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Univ. of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
1976-77 Visiting Assistant Professor, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1975-76 Visiting Lecturer of Spanish, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1974-75 Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Randolph Macon Woman's College,
Lynchburg, VA
Publications
Books:
Teresa de Avila and the Rhetoric of Femininity. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1990. Paperback edition, 1996.
Italian translation: Teresa d'Avila e la retorica della femminilità. Florence: Le Lettere, 1993.
Rpt. chapter I: “Little Women: Counter-Reformation Misogyny.” In The Counter Reformation. Blackwell Essential Readings in History. Ed. David M. Luebke. Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 1999. 143-162.
Guest edition:
Feminist Topics. Ed. with an Introduction by Alison Weber. Special
Issue of Journal of Hispanic Philology. Volume 13, Number 3 (1989)
[published in 1990].
Edited translation:
For the Hour of Recreation by María de San José. Introduction
and notes by Alison Weber. Translation by Amanda Powell. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2002.
Articles:
1. “Could Women Write Mystical Poetry?: The Literary Daughters of San
Juan de la Cruz.” For a compansion volume of essays to the American
Edition of Tras el espejo la musa escribe: An Anthology of Women Poets
of Early Modern Spain. Ed. Julián Olivares and Elizabeth Boyd.
Pegasus Press. Forthcoming.
2. “Lope de Vega’s ‘Sacred Rhymes’: Conversion, Clientage,
and the Performance of Masculinity.” 50 pp. [Under review]
3. “Dear Daughter: Reform and Persuasion in Saint Teresa’s letters
to her Prioresses.” In Form and Persuasion in Women’s Informal
Letters. 1500-1700 . Ed. Ann Crabb. Hants, U.K.: Ashgate, forthcoming
2004.
4. “Religious Writing in Early Modern Spain.” In The Cambridge
History of Spanish Literary History. Ed. David T. Gies. Cambridge UP.
Forthcoming 2004.
5. “The Three Lives of the Vida: The Uses of Convent Autobiography.”
In Women and Texts and Authority in Early Modern Spain. Ed. Marta
Vicente. Hants, U.K.: Ashgate, forthcoming 2004.
6. “The Partial Feminism of Ana de San Bartolomé.” In Recovering
Spain’s Feminist Tradition. Ed. Lisa Vollendorf. New York: Publications
of the Modern Language Association, 2001. 69-87.
7. “Demonizing Ecstasy: Alonso de la Fuente and the alumbrados of Extremadura.”
In The Mystical Gesture: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Spiritual
Culture in Honor of Mary E. Giles. Ed. Robert Boenig. Hants, U.K.: Ashgate
Press, 2000. 147-165.
8. "Spiritual Administration: Gender and Discernment in the Carmelite
Reform." Sixteenth Century Journal 31.1 (2000): 127-50.
9. “The Fortunes of Ecstasy: Teresa of Avila and the Carmelite Reform.”
Harvard Divinity Bulletin 28.4 (1999): 127-150.
10. Review Essay: “Recent Research on Women and Religion in Spanish.”
Renaissance Quarterly 52 (1999): 197-206.
11. "St. Teresa's Problematic Patrons." Journal of Medieval
and Early Modern Studies 29.2 (1999): 357-379.
12. "Teresa of Avila." Entry for The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance.
New York: Renaissance Society of America/ Scribners., 1999. 6:126-27.
13. "The Ideologies of Cervantine Irony: Liberalism, Postmodernism, and
Beyond." In Cervantes and his Postmodern Constituencies. Ed.
Anne J. Cruz and Carroll B. Johnson. New York: Garland P, 1999. 218-234.
14. "Celestina and the Discourses of Servitude." Negotiating
Past and Present: Studies in Spanish Literature for Javier Herrero. Ed.
David T. Gies. Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 1997. 127-144.
15. "On the Margins of Ecstasy: María de San José as (Auto)biographer."
Journal of the Institute of Romances Studies 4 (1996): 251-268.
16. "Pentimento: The Parodic Text of La gitanilla." Hispanic
Review 62 (1994): 59-75.
17. "Between Ecstasy and Exorcism: Religious Negotiation in Sixteenth-Century
Spain." Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 23 (1993):
221-34.
18. "Santa Teresa de Jesús." In Spanish Women Writers:
A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Ed. Linda Gould Levine et al. Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. 484-494.
19. "Saint Teresa, Demonologist." In Culture and Control in
Counter-Reformation Spain. Ed. Anne J. Cruz and Mary Elizabeth Perry.
University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis, U of Minnesota P, 1992. 171-95.
20. "Padres e hijas: una lectura intertextual de La historia del
cautivo." Actas del Segundo Coloquio Internacional de la Asociación
de Cervantistas, Alcalá de Henares. Barcelona: Anthropos, 1991.
425-31.
21. "Baroque Mentalities" (review article). Continuum 3
(1991): 100-105.
22. "The Authority of the Baroque" (review article). Continuum
1 (1989): 263-68.
23. "Teresa's `Delicious' Diminutives: Pragmatics and Style in Camino
de perfección." Journal of Hispanic Philology 10 (1986):
211-27.
24. "Don Quijote with Roque Guinart: The Case for an Ironic Reading."
Cervantes 6 (1986): 123-40.
25. "The Paradoxes of Humility: Santa Teresa's Libro de la vida as Double
Bind." Journal of Hispanic Philology 9 (1985): 211-30.
26. "Tragic Reparation in Cervantes' El celoso extremeño."
Cervantes 4 (1984): 35-51.
27. "La excentricidad y la norma en dos comedias de Ruiz de Alarcón."
In Actas del Sexto Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas. Ed. Alan
M. Gordon and Evelyn Rugg. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1980. 783-85.
28. "Cuatro clases de narrativa picaresca." In La picaresca:
Orígenes, textos y estructuras. Actas del primer congreso internacional
sobre la picaresca. Ed. Manuel Criado de Val. Madrid: Fundación
Universitaria Española, 1979. 13-18.
29. "La ilustre fregona and the Barriers of Caste." Papers on
Language and Literature 15 (1979): 73-81.
30. "Hamartia in Reinar después de morir." Bulletin of
the Comediantes 28 (1976): 89-95.
Reviews:
1. The Cultural Labyrinth of María de Zayas by Marina Brownlee.
Renaissance Quarterly 54 (2001):1606-1607.
2. “Saint Teresa without Footnotes.” Review of Teresa of Avila:
The Progress of a Soul by Cathleen Medwick. Harvard Divinity Bulletin
8.2 (2001): 22-24.
3. La segunda Celestina. By Augstín de Salazar y Torres. Ed.
Thomas A O’Conner. Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998): 229-230.
4. Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance
by Ignacio Navarrete. Sixteenth-Century Studies 27 (1996): 617-618.
5. Celestina's Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin
American Literature by Roberto González Echevarría. La
Corónica 24.2 (1996): 214-216.
6. Two Catechisms by Juan de Valdés edited with an introduction
by José C. Nieto. Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996): 399-400.
7. Discovering the Comic in Don Quixote by Laura J. Gorfkle. Cervantes
15 (1995): 101-103.
8. God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650
by Sara T. Nalle. Renaissance Quarterly 47 (1994): 693-694.
9. El sin par Sancho Panza: parodia y creación by Eduardo
Urbina. Romanic Review 89 (1994): 515-516.
10. The Perception of Women in Spanish Theater of the Golden Age
ed. by Anita K. Stoll and Dawn L. Smith. Bulletin of the Comediantes
45 (1993): 155-57.
11. Cervantine Journeys by Steven Hutchinson. Journal of Hispanic
Philology 17 (1992): 83-85.
12. Lucrecia's Dreams by Richard Kagan. Hispanic Review
59 (1992): 217-20.
13. Visions in Exile: The Body in Spanish Literature and Linguistics:
1500-1800 by Malcolm K. Read. Journal of Hispanic Philology
15 (1991): 162-63.
14. Writing in the Margin by Paul Julian Smith. Bulletin of the
Comediantes 42 (1990): 222-24.
15. Untold Sisters: Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Works by Electa Arenal
and Stacey Schlau. Journal of Hispanic Philology 14 (1990): 190-93.
16. The Antiheroine's Voice: Narrative Discourse and Transformations of
the Picaresque by Edward H. Friedman. Journal of Hispanic Philology
11 (1987): 273-75.
17. Madness and Lust by Carroll B. Johnson. Cervantes 5
(1985): 211-30.
18. Alonso Castillo Solórzano by Alan Soons. Bulletin
of the Comediantes 32 (1980): 82-83.
19. Literature as System by Claudio Guillén. Comparative
Literature Studies 11 (1974): 392-3.
Translations:
1. “Father Gregorio Bolivar’s 1625 Report: A Vatican Source for
the History of Early Virginia.” Edward L. Bond, Jan L. Perkowski, and
Alison P. Weber. Translation by Alison Weber. Virginia Magazine of History
and Biography 110 (2002):69-86.
2. Selected Stories by Olga Orozco in The Secret Weavers: Stories of the
Fantastic by Women of Argentina and Chile. Ed. Marjorie Agosin. Buffalo:
White Pines Press, 1991.
3. "The Museum of Futile Efforts" by Cristina Peri Rossi. In Landscapes
of a New Land. Short Fiction by Latin American Women. Ed. Marjorie Agosin.
Buffalo: White Pine Press, 1989.
Invited Lectures:
1. “Locating Holiness in Early Modern Spain: Convents, Caves, and Houses.”
Plenary Address. Attending to Women. November 7-9, 2003. University of Maryland,
College Park, MD.
2. “Saint Teresa’s Letters to her Prioresses: Was Teresa a Micro-Manager?”
Conference on Female Monasticism in Pre-Industrial Europe. 24-25 July, 2003.
Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, England.
3. “Was Saint Teresa a Failed Feminist?” Virginia Commonwealth
University. October, 2002.
4. “ ‘Dear Daughter’ : Form and Persuasion in Saint Teresa’s
Letters to her Nuns.” Mount Holyoke College. March, 2002.
5. “Saint Teresa’s Book of Foundations: Disciplining Body and
Spirit.” Washington Theological Union. February 7, 2001.
6. “The Three Lives of the Vida: The Uses of Convent Autobiography.”
King Juan Carlos Center at New York University. October, 2001.
7. “Saint Teresa and the Discalced Carmelite Reform.” Two lectures
for the Washington Theological Union. January 12 and 13, 2000.
8. “The Inquisitor, the Flesh, and the Devil.” Haverford College,
March 18, 1999.
9. “The Inquisitor, the Flesh, and the Devil.” Akademie der Diozese
Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Weingarten, Germany. November, 1999. Invited speaker.
10. “The Fortunes of Ecstasy: Teresa of Avila and the Discalced Carmelite
Reform.” Harvard Divinity School, April, 1999.
11. “El feminismo ecclesial de Santa Teresa” and “Ultimas
tendencias del cervantismo norteamericano.” Departamento de Filología
Española, Universitat de Barcelona. April 25 and 27, 1999.
12. “Teresa of Avila and the Art of the Deal.” La voz a ti debida.
A Conference Honoring Professor Howard T. Young on the Occasion of His Retirement.
Pomona College, October 9, 1998.
13. “Saint Teresa and the Fortunes of Ecstasy.” College of William
and Mary, April, 1998.
14. “Demonizing Ecstasy: The Inquisitor Writes the Alumbrados.”
Yale University, November, 1998.
15. "Teresa of Avila and the Art of the Deal." Smith College, March
2, 1998.
16. "Spiritual Administration: Feminism and Backlash in the Carmelite
Reform." Institute of Carmelite Studies, Washington, D.C., February,
1998.
17. "'Como me han mandado y lado larga licencia': The Modalities of Convent
Life-Writing in Early Modern Spain and America." Conference on Women
Writers of the Golden Age and the Colonial Period. Lubbock, Texas. October,
1996. (Keynote speaker).
18. "Convent (Auto)biographies or What to Do When Your Mother is a Saint?"
Old Dominion University. September 25, 1996.
19. "St. Teresa's Literary Daughter: What to Do When Your Mother is a
Saint." University of Oregon, May, 1995.
20. "María de San José Salazar and the Anxiety of Authorship."
Symposium on Women Writers in Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Institute
of Romance Studies, University of London. June, 1995.
21. "Gender Politics and the Spanish Inquisition: The Case of María
de la Visitación." What Difference Does Gender Make? Conference
sponsored by the Joint Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Duke
University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina
State University. October, 1995.
22. "St. Teresa of Avila: Her Patrons and Censors." Ohio State University,
February, 1993. (Plenary speaker).
23. "La Celestina as a History of Private Life." Mid-Atlantic Medieval
and Golden Age Seminar. College of William and Mary, October, 1993.
24. "Preciosa Unbound: Gender and Parody in La gitanilla." University
of Toronto. March, 1992.
25. "Beatas y predicadores: Los contornos de la disidencia religiosa
en la España de la Contrarreforma." University of Valencia, Spain.
October, 1992.
26. "Saint Teresa and Her Demons." University of North Carolina,
Greensboro. March 4, 1991.
27. "Ecstasy and Exorcism: Versions of Rapture in Sixteenth-Century Spain."
Medieval Circle of the University of Virginia. November 19, 1991.
28. "Interpreting Ecstasy: Theories of Rapture in Renaissance Spain."
Scripps College Symposium on Spanish Mysticism Reconsidered. Scripps College,
Claremont, California. October 4 and 5, 1991.
29. "Saint Teresa's `Delicious' Diminutives: Did She Really Write Like
a Woman?" Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, 1987.
Conference Papers and Lectures:
1. "Cuatro clases de narrativa picaresca." Primer Congreso Internacional
sobre la Picaresca, Madrid, 1976.
2. "La excentricidad y la norma en dos comedias de Ruiz de Alarcón."
Sixth International Congress of Hispanists, Toronto, 1977.
3. Respondent, Special Session on Quevedo's Buscón. Meeting of the
Modern Language Association (MMLA), Chicago, 1977.
4. Respondent, Special Session on Vélez and the Tragedy. Kentucky Foreign
Language Conference, 1978.
5. "La conveniencia en la comedia calderoniana." A Tricentennial
Calderón Celebration, Urbana, Illinois, 1981.
6. "Santa Teresa and the Rhetoric of Self-Deprecation." A Celebration
in Honor of Teresa de Jesús, Urbana, Illinois, 1982.
7. "Humility as Double Bind: The Confessions of Saint Teresa." Bates
College, Lewiston, Maine. October, 1983.
8. "Picaresque Irony, Cervantine Irony." Southeast Foreign Languages
Conference, 1986.
9. "Humility and Mysticism." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference,
1986.
10. "Saint Augustine and Saint Teresa: Plotting a Confession." Northeast
Modern Language Association, Boston, 1987.
11. "Cervantes and the Tradition of the Cuckold's Tale." Northeast
Modern Language Association, Providence, 1988.
12. "Melancholy in the Convent: Pathology or Possession?" Southeast
Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., November, 1988.
13. Primer Coloquio Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas,
Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Invited to record proceedings for the Cervantes
Society of America. November 30-December 2, 1988.
14. "Re-thinking Cervantes' Italian Connection." Meeting of the
Cervantes Society of America, New Orleans, 1988.
15. "Pícaras and Rebel Daughters: Saint Teresa's Book of Foundations."
MLA, New Orleans, 1988.
16. "Padres e hijas: una lectura intertextual de La historia del cautivo."
Segundo Coloquio Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas, Alcalá
de Henares, Spain. November, 1989.
17. "Cervantes' La gitanilla and the Politics of Exogamy." Kentucky
Foreign Language Conference. April, 1990.
18. "Arrobamiento: Women and the Ecstatic Trace in Early Modern Spain."
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Philadelphia. October 19, 1991.
19. "The Erotics of Servitude in La Celestina." MLA New York, 1992.
20. "The Rise and Fall of an Inquisitorial Preacher: Alonso de la Fuente
and the Alumbrados of Extremadura." 28th International Congress on Medieval
Studies. Western Michigan University. May, 1993.
21. "Women's Religious Experience in the Sixteenth Century." Chair
and Commentator. Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St Louis. 1993.
22. "`My Life as Told By': The Biography of a Colonial Nun." MLA,
Toronto. December, 1993.
23. "Melancholy, Madness, and Disease." Organizer and Chair. MLA,
Toronto. December, 1993.
24. "Honor and Shame: Examining Assumptions About Early Modern Women."
Workshop Co-Leader. Attending to Early Modern Women: A Symposium. University
of Maryland. April, 1994.
25. "Friendships in Early Modern Spain." Organizer and Chair. MLA,
San Diego. December, 1994.
26. "Heterodoxies: Counterdiscourse in the Golden Age." Chair and
Organizer. MLA, Chicago. December, 1995.
27. "St. Teresa's Problematic Patrons." Meeting of the Society for
Spanish and Portuguese Historians in Tucson, Arizona. April, 1996.
28. "The Ideologies of Cervantine Irony: Liberalism, Postmodernism, and
Beyond." Cervantes and His Postmodern Constituencies. A Colloquium sponsored
by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. May, 1996.
29. "Rethinking Maravall." Chair and Commentator. MLA. Washington,
D.C. December, 1996.
30. "The Daughters of St. Teresa: María de San José and
Ana de San Bartolomé." Invited lecture for the course "Carmelite
Traditions III" offered by the Washington Theological Union. February,
1997.
31. "Gender, Teaching and Spiritual Discernment in the Carmelite Reform."
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada. April 5,
1997.
32. Co-Organizer, Second Conference on Women Writers and Colonial Latin America.
University of Virginia. October 30-November 1, 1997.
33. "Teresa's Medieval Moments." Second Conference on Women Writers
of Early Modern Spain." University of Virginia. Nov. 1, 1997.
34. “Reading Teresa: Texts and Contexts.” Panel participant. Meeting
of the Society of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Saint Louis.
April, 1998.
35. “Black, While, and Gray Legends: Commemorating 1598 and 1898.”
Introduction to Panel and Chair. MLA, San Francisco. December, 1998.
36. “Current Research in Women’s Studies in Religion.” Women’s
Studies in Religion Program National Leadership Conference. Harvard Divinity
School. January 24, 1999. Panel participant.
37. “Saint Teresa’s Meditations on the Song of Songs: A Feminist
Epistemology?” Guest Lecturer for Sarah Coakley’s course at Harvard
Divinity School: Philosophy, Religious Experience and Feminist Critique. March
25, 1999.
38. “Manhood in the Making: The Construction of Masculinity in Counter-Reformation
Spain.” American Comparative Literature Association, Yale University.
February 26, 2000.
39. “On the Margins of Sanctity: Women’s Religiosity in Early
Modern Catholic Europe.” Workshop Co-Leader. Attending to Early Modern
Women: A Symposium, University of Maryland. November 11, 2000.
40. “The Three Lives of the Vida: Women’s Spiritual Biographies.”
Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago. March, 2001.
41. “The Inquisitors Discipline Their Own: The Case of Alonso de la
Fuente.” Renaissance Society of America, Scottsdale, Arizona. April,
2002.
42. “ A Voice Less Kind, Less Gentle: Translating Saint Teresa’s
Letters,” Congreso de la Asociación de Escritoras de España
y América. September, 2002.
43. “Religion and the Creation of Feminist Consciousness: The Case for
Early Modern Monasticism.” Women’s Leadership Conference, Harvard
Divinity School. January, 2003.
Work in Progress
1. Lope de Vega and the Duke of Sessa: Early Modern Clientage
and the Performance of Masculinity. Monograph.
2. The Fortunes of Ecstasy: Gender and Religious Experience in the Early
Modern Spanish Empire. Monograph.
3. “Teresa de Avila. La mística feminina.” Chapter for
Historia de las mujeres en España e Iberoamérica. Ed.
Isabel Morant Deusa. Madrid: Cátedra.
4. Approaches to Teaching the Spanish Mystics. Proposal under review
at MLA Press.
Professional Service and Editorial Board Membership (outside the
University of Virginia)
1. Discipline Representative for Spanish Literature, Renaissance Society of
America. Term beginning 2003.
2. Secretary-Treasurer, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Beta Chapter 1999-present.
3. Reviewer for Fellowship Applications to the National Humanities Center,
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 1999, 2000.
4. Advisory Board, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity
School, 1999-present.
5. Nominating Secretary, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
1998-2000.
6. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Cervantes 1995-present.
7. Secretary-Treasurer, Cervantes Society of America (1989-91).
8. Executive Committee, MLA Division on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century
Spanish Poetry and Prose (1992-96).
9. Outside Evaluator for Promotion to Tenure: Miami University of Ohio, Rutgers
University, Virginia Tech, Stanford University, Mary Washington College, University
of Kansas, Brigham Young University, Emory University.
10. Outside Evaluator for Hiring to Tenure: Duke University, University of
Chicago
11. Manuscript Reviews for University of New Mexico Press, University of California
Press, University of Virginia Press, and University Press of the South, Oxford
University Press.
12. Executive Committee, Cervantes Society of America, 1995-1997.
13. Program Evaluation: Bates College, Department of Classical and Romance
Languages and Literatures, Bates College, 1996.
14. Member MLA, Renaissance Society of America, Sixteenth-Century Studies
Association, Cervantes Society of America, International Association of Hispanists,
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, Society for Spanish and Portuguese
Historical Studies, Virginia Society of Fellows, Asociación de Escritoras
de España y América, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter.
Teaching Experience:
Undergraduate:
1. Introduction to Comparative Literature
2. The Picaresque Novel
3. Spanish Culture, Language, Grammar, and Composition (all levels)
4. Literary Analysis
5. Survey of Spanish Literature from the Middle Ages to 1700
6. Cervantes
7. Golden Age Drama of Spain
8. Translation
9. The Inquisition in Spain and Latin America
10. Women Writers of the Spanish Empire
Graduate:
1. Cervantes
2. Survey of Renaissance and Baroque Literature of Spain
3. Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction in Spain
4. Prose of the Golden Age Literature of Spain
5. Gender and Spirituality
6. Renaissance and Baroque Poetry of Spain
7. The Novella in Golden Age Spanish Literature
8. Theater of the Spanish Golden Age
9. Lope de Vega
Other:
1. “The Spanish Conversos: Crypto-Jews or New Christians?” Lecture
for Adult Education Series, Temple Beth Israel, Charlottesville, Jan 20, 2003.
2. “Who’s Afraid of Lope de Vega.” In-service Workshop for
High School Teachers of Spanish. Virginia Center for the Liberal Arts. May,
2002.
3. “Gender and Sanctity, the Example of Teresa of Avila,” Harvard
Divinity School, 1998. Semester-long course of students of the Masters of
Theology and Masters of Divinity.
4. Director of a seminar “Gender and Sanctity in Early Modern Europe”
at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., Fall, 1998.
5. Lecturer for NEH Seminar for High School Teachers "Spain Today and
Toward the Year 2000." University of Virginia June, 1992, 1994.
6. Lecturer for Virginia Center for the Liberal Arts Summer Institute for
Spanish Teachers. June-July, 1993.PhD
Dissertations Directed:
1. Price, Todd. “Calderón’s autos sacramentales and the
Construction of Civic Religiosity.” In progress.
2. Harllee, Carol. “The Reception of the Dialogue in Renaissance Spain.”
In progress.
3. Arbulu, Ivy. “Confieren los poetas: Garcilaso de la Vega en las Anotaciones
de Fernando de Herrera.” 1999. [Associate Professor, Mary Baldwin College].
4. Hermida Ruiz, Aurora. “El mito del hombre invisible: Garcilaso de
la Vega, nacionalismo e historiografía literaria.” 1998. [Associate
Professor, University of Richmond].
5. Miller, Don. “Catalina de Erauso: Engendering La Monja Alférez
through History, Literature, and Art.” 1998. [Assistant Professor, California
State University, Chico].
6. Smith, Susan M. “The Spiritual Colloquies of Sor Marcela de San Félix.”
1998. [Associate Professor, Hampden-Sydney College].
7. Martínez-Góngora, Mar. "La prosa humanista y la noción
de la mujer: Antonio de Guevara, Juan de Valdés, Alfonso de Valdés
y Luis de León." 1996. [Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth
University].
8. Graf, Eric Clifford."Urgent Fury: Exemplary Dissent in Cervantes's
La Numancia." 1996. [Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign].
9. McGovern-Waite, Lynn Ann. "Telling (Her)Story: the Novels of Lourdes
Ortiz." 1992. [Professor, Sweetbriar College].
ß I have served or am current serving as the Dean’s representative
(outside reader) for 6 dissertations in the French Department and 3 in the
History Department. I have directed numerous MA theses in the Spanish Department
and served on many departmental PhD committees.
Administrative Experience, University of Virginia:
1. University Committee on Education Policy and Curriculum, term beginning
2003
2. Member, Graduate Committee and Graduate Admissions Committee, 2002-present.
3. Jefferson Scholar Graduate Fellowship Selection Committee 2002
4. University Compensation Advisory Committee 2000-2002
5. Ad Hoc Committee for Chair Selection, Department of French, 2000.
6. Member of Internal Review Committee for the Department of French, 2000
7. Dean's Advisory Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1997-1998
8. Department Chair, August 1995-1998
9. Selection Committee for Fulbright Fellowships, University of Virginia 1991-94
10. Departmental Affirmative Action Representative, 1993-94
11. Associate Chair, 1992-94
12. Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, 1991-94
13. Graduate Advisor, 1990-1991; 1999-2002
14. Major Advisor, 1983-1990; 1999-present
September 2003
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
| |
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
| |
|
||||||
| |
|
||||||
| |
|
||||||
| |
|
||||||
| |
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|