Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University - 1997 (Spanish)
M.Phil., Columbia University - 1994 (Spanish)
M.A., Columbia University - 1992 (Spanish)
B.A., Reed College - 1987 (English)
Areas of Expertise:
Cervantes; the literature and culture of early modern Spain; theories of the Baroque; paired analysis of archival documents and literary texts; social history of Spain's ethno-religious minorities, especially the Moriscos (descendants of Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity); reception of Cervantes in the Americas.
Books and Publications
"Baroque Quixote: New World Writing and the Collapse of the Heroic Ideal." Baroque New Worlds Eds. Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup. Durham and London: Duke University Press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008
"Circumcision and the Captive's Tale." Forthcoming in a special number of Annals of Scholarship on the theme of "Don Quixote and Race" under the guest editorship of Baltasar Fra Molinero. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008
"La modernidad barroca del Quijote." Forthcoming in El cervantismo en USA, Madrid: Polifemo, Eds. Georgina Dopico-Black and Francisco Layna. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008
"Moros en la Mancha: Pérez de Hita and the Morisco Question in Don Quixote, I." Forthcoming in the proceedings from the Hofstra University Don Quixote conference, November 2004. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008
"Spanish Mysticism and the Islamic Tradition." Article accepted by Allison Weber for the volume she is editing in the MLA Approaches to Teaching Series: Approaches to Teaching Saint Theresa and the Spanish Mystics. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008
Review of The Literature of Jealousy in the Age of Cervantes, by Steven Wagschal. Forthcoming in Caliope. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008
Review of Cervantes and Modernity, by Eric C. Graf. Cervantes 27.2: 245-49. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2007
"The Baroque Public Sphere." Reason and Its Others in Early Modern Spain and Italy. Eds. David R. Castillo and Massimo Lollini. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press. [Hispanic Issues, volume 23] 165-85. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2006
Transnational Cervantes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2006
Review of Cervantes en Argel, by María Antonia Garcés. Anales Cervantinos 38: 396-400. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2006
"Don Quixote and the War of the Alpujarras: The Historical Debasement of Chivalry as a Correlative to Its Literary Parody." Hispania 88.1: 11-19. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2005
"La pierna quebrada: Pre-cinematic Performance and the Deconstructive Gaze in Tristana and Camila." Bridging Continents. Cinematic and Literary Representations of Spanish and Latin American Themes. (Special 2005 issue of Chasqui) Eds. Nora Glickman and Alejandro Varderi. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2005
"Legal Discourse in Don Quijote." Mester 34: 1-16. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2005
"Oh, hideputa, bellaco, y como es catolico!": Sancho, Blasphemy, and the Baroque Public Sphere." Don Quijote Across Four Centuries. Papers from the Seventeenth Southern California Cervantes Symposium. Ed. Carroll B. Jonson. Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta, 71-86. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2005
"'Ese tan borrado sobreescrito': The Deconstruction of Lope's Religious Theater in El retablo de las maravillas and El rufián dichoso." Bulletin of the Comediantes 56.2: 241-68. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2004
"Según es cristiana la gente: Antonio de Villaseñor and the Archival Record." Cervantes 24.2: 1-36. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2004
Review of Discourses of Empire: Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain, by Barbara Simerka. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 8: 247-48. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2004
"Recordando el futuro: Los moriscos cervantinos y la inmigración magrebí actual." Estas primicias del ingenio: jóvenes cervantistas en Chicago. Eds. Fracisco Caudet and Kerry Wilks. Madrid: Castalia. 73-98. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2003
"Chicanoizing Don Quixote: For Luis Andrés Murillo." Aztlán 27.2: 87-117. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2002
"Orchestrating Happiness: The Interpolation Process in Don Quijote, I." Convergencias Hispánicas. Ed. Elizabeth Scarlett. Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta. 245-60. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2001
Review of Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age, by Anthony Cascardi. Cervantes 19: 154-57. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 1999
Review of Cervantes' Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (1997 edition by Carlos Romero). Cervantes 19. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 1999
"Correr la pluma: Multigeneric Composition in Don Quijote and Persiles." Mester 25: 119-46. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 1996
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Ironies of Social Harmony in Don Quixote." Annual Fordham University Cervantes Lecture. April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Cervantes sin fronteras." Universidad Veracruzana. Jalapa, Mexico, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"The Repression and Resurgence of Arabic in Sixteenth-century Spain." Annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association. Puebla, Mexico, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
"Manzanares, 1600: Una fiesta de 'Moros y cristianos' encabezado por un grupo de moriscos." 3rd Annual Conversos and Moriscos Conference. St. Louis University, Madrid, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"El moro romántico y el morisco vecino en Castilla la Nueva hacia 1600: tres ejemplos." CUNY Graduate Center. February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005
"Zoraida's Return: Algerian Views of Cervantes' Captivity." MLA Annual Conference. Washington, D.C., December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
"Chicanoizing Don Quixote." Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004
"Dragging Cervantes through the Centuries." Keynote address, Transparent Borders. Graduate Student Conference, Romance Languages, University of Oregon, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004
"Moriscos y conversos en un pueblo manchego: Quintanar de la Orden, 1570-1609." First annual Convivencia conference, St. Louis University, Madrid campus, May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004
"Counterconquest and Counterculture in the Codex Espangliensis." Montclair State University, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003
"Los moriscos manchegos: documentos para su historia." ALDEEU. Jaén, Spain, July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003
"'Debajo de mi manto al rey mato': The Place of Fiction in Cervantes." Hispanic Cultural Studies: The State of the Art. Tucson, Ariz., September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002
"Magical Realism and Hybridity in Cervantes." MLA Annual Conference, New York, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002
"Recordando el futuro: Los moriscos cervantinos y la inmigración magrebí actual." Seminar: Jóvenes Cervantistas, Instituto Cervantes. Chicago, January. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2002
"Internal Colonialism and Literary Form in Early Modern Spain." MLA Annual Conference. New Orleans, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001
"Dorotea y el arte del olvido." MLA Annual Conference. Washington, D.C., December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000
"Pilgrimage and Social Change in Persiles y Sigismunda." MLA Annual Conference. Washington, D.C., December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000
"Don Juan and Capitalism." MLA Annual Conference. Chicago, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1999
