My current research focuses on the aesthetic representation and exploration of the cultural and political upheaval that accompanied developments in the sciences in early modern Spain and Europe. Titled ‘Estranged Epistemologies: Science and Culture in the Baroque and neoBaroque,’ and funded by a 3-year Insight grant from SSHRC, this project seeks to stage a number of theoretical and discursive encounters between contemporary and Baroque manifestations of Science Fiction. The primary goal is to understand the ways in which science and technology structure our cognitive and artistic relationship with the worlds around us. Primary sources include baroque authors such as Cervantes, Calderón de la Barca, and Zayas as well as contemporary figures such as Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, and Philip K. Dick.

View my current CV here.

Education

• 2000  Ph.D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics, Minnesota
• 1995  MA in Hispanic Literatures, Minnesota
• 1987  BS in Secondary Education and Spanish, St. Cloud State University
• 1985  BA in English (Spanish minor), St. Johns University, Collegeville, MN

Research Areas

My current research interests include: extremism and the manufacture of disinformation as well as pedagogical responses and antidotes. I also focus on visual and social media of the Baroque and Neo-Baroque; aesthetic engagements and mediations of scientific innovations and discoveries in both theory and technology in early and late modernity; sexual violence and sex crimes in Baroque Spain; social pedagogy as it relates to the production and mediation of hate speech in early and late modern musical and theatrical performances; and cognitive approaches to cultural expressions of empathy and or compassion in early and late modernity.

Recent Publications

Monograph

 

The Persistence ofPresence: Emblem and Ritual in Baroque Spain.Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2010. Print.

 

Edited volumes

 

Disinformation: Pedagogical and Activist Responses to a Local Scourge and Global Plague. Lexington Press (Bloosmbury). Under contract.

 

Co-edited with David Castillo. Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy: Tackling the Power of Manipulative Media. Hispanic Issues Online Volume 32 (2024). https://cla.umn.edu/hispanic-issues/online/vol-32-anti-disinformation-pedagogy-tackling-power-manipulative-media

 

Science Fiction in Cervantes. Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. 40.2 (2020).

Refereed Book Chapters and Journal Articles

 

(accepted) “Trauma in and through Cervantes: Imaginary Grievances in Courtly Love and the Radical Right.” Cervantes and Trauma: New Approaches to Trauma Studies. Eds. Stephen Hessel and Ryan Schmitz. U Toronto Press.

 

(in press) “Quixotism as Extremity: The Aesthetics and Politics of Exclusion.” The Ethics of Extremity. Eds. Nelson Varas-Díaz and Vivek Venkatesh. Lexington Press.

 

(In press) “Ariel Dorfman’s Cautivos: Cervantine Aesthetics as Therapy for Political Trauma?” A Character Named Cervantes: On Screen, on Stage, and on the Page. Ed. Howard Mancing and Tatevik Gyulamiryan. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta.

 

(forthcoming) “Scientific Innovations and Discoveries in Early Modern Iberia.” Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World (REWR)

 

with Vivek Venkatesh. “Social pedagogy in the information age: Creating reflexive inclusivity to combat social media-fueled narcissism and solipsism.” Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy: Tackling the Power of Manipulative Media. Hispanic Issues Online Volume 32 (2024). Ed. Castillo and Nelson 142-62. https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/266249a9-f669-44e7-a101-5cc0ed85e574/content

 

with David Castillo. “Introduction: Confronting the Perversion of Language and Information in Our Era of Inflationary Media.” Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy: Tackling the Power of Manipulative Media. Hispanic Issues Online Volume 32 (2024). Ed. Castillo and Nelson. 2-17. https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/14cada26-bb0c-45fd-98ba-8ef6ea937d5c/content

 

“Extreme Quixotism: Cervantes on Authenticity, Narcissism, and Reality Literacy in Early and Late Modernity.” On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, Experiences. Ed. Nelson Varas-Díaz, Niall Scott, and Bryan Bardine. Lexington Press, 2023. 171-88.

 

“From Irony to Collective Action: A Progressive Reading of Reality Literacy.” A Polemical Companion to What Would Cervantes Do? by David Castillo and William Egginton. Ed. Brian Phillips and Stephen Hessel. Hispanic Issues On-line Debates 11 (2023).

 

 “Aesthetics and the Staging of Sexual Violence in Cervantes and Lope.” Comedia Performance, special number on Race, Gender, and Class. Ed. Erin Cowling, Esther Fernández, and Glenda Nieto-Cubas. 19 (2022): 28-39.

CV

Bradley J. Nelson, PhD

 

(514) 627-4966

brad.nelson@concordia.ca

 

Employment history

 

2025                Chair, Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics

 

10-2024 –

1 – 2025          Acting Vice-Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia

 

2022-               Chair, Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics

 

2015-2021       Associate Dean, Academic Programs and Development

                        School of Graduate Studies

                        Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

 

2013-2016       Associate Dean, Student Affairs and Postdoctoral Studies

                        School of Graduate Studies

                        Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

 

2013-               Professor of Spanish

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

 

2012-13           Graduate Program Director, The Individualized Program

School of Graduate Studies

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

 

2005-12           Chair, Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics

                        Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

 

2005-13           Associate Professor of Spanish

                        Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

 

2000-05           Assistant Professor of Spanish

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

 

1999-2000       Lecturer of Spanish 

University of Minnesota

 

1993-99           Teaching Assistant

Department of Spanish and Portuguese                                                         University of Minnesota

 

1987-93           High School Spanish Teacher 

The Alexander Dawson School, Lafayette, CO (1990-1993)

                        Cambridge-Isanti Senior High School, Cambridge, MN (1987-1990)

 

Education

 

2000                Ph.D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics 

                        University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

                        

1995                MA in Hispanic Literatures

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

1987                BS in Secondary Education and Spanish (magna cum laude)

                        St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

 

1985                BA in English (Spanish minor)

                        St. Johns University, Collegeville, Minnesota

 

RESEARCH

 

Affiliation

 

2022-              Executive Board Member, Centre for Research in Learning and Performance. Concordia University, Université de Québec à Montréal

 

2020-               Member, Centre for Research in Learning and Performance. Concordia University, Université de Québec à Montréal

 

2018-              Member, Concordia Centre for Cognitive Science and Linguistics

 

External Funding and Awards

 

2024                PI: Disinformation: Creation, Dissemination and Pedagogical Responses [Operating: $25,000]. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Connections grant.

 

2023                Co-applicant, No Outsides: Underground Arts as a Catalyst for Pluralism in an Era of Polarization[Operating: $50,000]. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Connection grant. 

 

2022-2027       Co-applicant, Landscape of hope: Magnifying narratives of resilience and ensuring wellbeing of marginalised Québecois youth [Operating: $359,910]. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Insight Grant. 

 

2020-2023       Co-applicant, Innovative social pedagogy to empower indigenous communities & reduce gender, racial biases [Operating: $780,000]. Employment and Social Development Canada. 

 

2018-2024        Co-applicant, CSLP Research unit recognition [Operating: $510,000]. Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies, Concordia University. Infrastructure Grant. 

 

2020-2027      Co-applicant, Centre d’études sur l’apprentissage et la performance (CEAP) [Operating: $2,240,000 [after $300,000 increase in 2022]]. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC). Regroupement strategique. 

 

2018-23          Principal Investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: “Estranged Epistemologies: Science and Culture in the Baroque and (Neo)Baroque.” ($50,000)

 

2018-19          Co-investigator, Global Affairs, Canada. “Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Capacity-Building Initiatives from the SOMEONE (Social Media Education Every Day) Initiative to Counter Terrorism and Violent Extremism with Lebanese Stakeholders in Education, Public Policy and Social Service.” ($1.2M)

 

2017-19          Co-investigator, Ministry of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. “Implementing Social Pedagogical Practices vie the SOMEONE (Social Media Every day) multimedia portal: Knowledge Mobilization and Transfer of Evidence-Based Research into Communities, Scholastic, Popular Media and Public Settings to Improve Resilience to Hate Speech and Radicalization that Leads to Violent Extremism.” ($367,000)

 

2015-18          Co-applicant, The Research Council of Norway. “Integrating Science of Oceans, Physics and Education”: collaboration between researchers from Bergen University, UC Berkeley, and Concordia University on innovative pedagogies in science. (3,900,000 kroner; $610,000 CDN)

 

2011-15          Principal Investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: “Signs of the Times: Baroque Science Fiction” ($46,000)

 

2010                Principal Investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Aid to Publication Grant ($8000)

 

2003-07           Principal Investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: “Emblematic Moments in Literary Contexts: Ritual Strategies and Myth Making in Golden Age Spain” ($33,500)

 

2003-07           Principal Investigator, Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Societé et la Culture : « Thèâtre Moderne, Restes Rituels: Le Rôle des Pratiques Rituels dans ‘La Comedia Nueva’ » ($34,000)

 

1998                Principal Investigator, Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities ($1,850)

 

1991                Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for summer workshop on Camilo José Cela, Brigham Young University ($3,000)

 

1989                Principal Investigator, Fellowship for summer graduate study, Sociedad Estatal del Quintocentenario in collaboration with La fundación Ortega y Gasset and The University of Minnesota Global Campus ($1,500)

 

1987                Principal Investigator, Minnesota Coordinating Board for Higher Education ($5,000)

 

Internal Funding

 

2023                Disinformation: Creation, Dissemination and Pedagogical Responses. Aid to Research Related Events, VPRGS [$5000]; CISSC [$1800]; CMLL [$1250]; Journalism [$1000]

2023                Disinformation: Creation, Dissemination and Pedagogical Responses, FAS support for research related events [$2000]

2017                End of Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World, Aid to Research Related Events, VPRGS [$5000] in support of unsuccessful Connections grant application

2015                Media Among Discourses: Don Quixote’s Place(s) in the Public Humanities. Aid to Research Related Events, VPRGS [$5000] in support of unsuccessful Connections grant application

 

Published Research

 

Monograph

 

The Persistence of Presence: Emblem and Ritual in Baroque Spain. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2010. Print.

 

Edited volumes

 

Disinformation: Pedagogical and Activist Responses to a Local Scourge and Global Plague. Lexington Press (Bloosmbury). Under contract.

 

Co-edited with David Castillo. Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy: Tackling the Power of Manipulative Media. Hispanic Issues Online Volume 32 (2024). https://cla.umn.edu/hispanic-issues/online/vol-32-anti-disinformation-pedagogy-tackling-power-manipulative-media

 

Science Fiction in Cervantes. Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. 40.2 (2020).

 

Co-edited with David Castillo. Writing in the End Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World. Hispanic Issues Online 43 (2019). https://cla.umn.edu/hispanic-issues/online/writing-end-times-apocalyptic-imagination-hispanic-world

 

Co-edited with Julio Baena. A Polemical Companion to Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media, by David Castillo and William Egginton. Hispanic Issues Debates 8, 2017. https://cla.umn.edu/hispanic-issues/debates/volume-8-polemical-companion-medialogies

 

Co-edited with David Castillo. Spectatorship and Topophilia in Early Modern and Postmodern Hispanic Cultures. Hispanic Issues. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2011. Print.

 

Refereed Book Chapters and Journal Articles

 

(accepted) “Trauma in and through Cervantes: Imaginary Grievances in Courtly Love and the Radical Right.” Cervantes and Trauma: New Approaches to Trauma Studies. Eds. Stephen Hessel and Ryan Schmitz. U Toronto Press.

 

(in press) “Quixotism as Extremity: The Aesthetics and Politics of Exclusion.” The Ethics of Extremity. Eds. Nelson Varas-Díaz and Vivek Venkatesh. Lexington Press.

 

(In press) “Ariel Dorfman’s Cautivos: Cervantine Aesthetics as Therapy for Political Trauma?” A Character Named Cervantes: On Screen, on Stage, and on the Page. Ed. Howard Mancing and Tatevik Gyulamiryan. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta.

 

(forthcoming) “Scientific Innovations and Discoveries in Early Modern Iberia.” Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World (REWR)

 

with Vivek Venkatesh. “Social pedagogy in the information age: Creating reflexive inclusivity to combat social media-fueled narcissism and solipsism.” Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy: Tackling the Power of Manipulative Media. Hispanic Issues Online Volume 32 (2024). Ed. Castillo and Nelson 142-62. https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/266249a9-f669-44e7-a101-5cc0ed85e574/content

 

with David Castillo. “Introduction: Confronting the Perversion of Language and Information in Our Era of Inflationary Media.” Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy: Tackling the Power of Manipulative Media. Hispanic Issues Online Volume 32 (2024). Ed. Castillo and Nelson. 2-17. https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/14cada26-bb0c-45fd-98ba-8ef6ea937d5c/content

 

“Extreme Quixotism: Cervantes on Authenticity, Narcissism, and Reality Literacy in Early and Late Modernity.” On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, Experiences. Ed. Nelson Varas-Díaz, Niall Scott, and Bryan Bardine. Lexington Press, 2023. 171-88.

 

“From Irony to Collective Action: A Progressive Reading of Reality Literacy.” A Polemical Companion to What Would Cervantes Do? by David Castillo and William Egginton. Ed. Brian Phillips and Stephen Hessel. Hispanic Issues On-line Debates 11 (2023).

 

 “Aesthetics and the Staging of Sexual Violence in Cervantes and Lope.” Comedia Performance, special number on Race, Gender, and Class. Ed. Erin Cowling, Esther Fernández, and Glenda Nieto-Cubas. 19 (2022): 28-39.

 

“The Persistence of Melancholy in Don Quixote and (post)Modernity: What Love Has to Do with It.” La Vida Como Obra de Arte: Essays in Honor of John J. Allen. Ed. Moisés Castillo. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2021. 166-86.

 

 “Engaging Students on the #MeToo Movement: Framing Contemporary Crime Shows with Tirso and Zayas.” Tunes, TV, and Tweets: Teaching Early Modern Spanish Literature Through Popular Culture, eds. Mindy Badía and Bonnie Gasior. Juan de la Cuesta, 2021: 87-105.

 

Co-authored with Vivek Venkatesh. “Manifeste pour une pédagogie sociale par l’inclusivité réflexive. In D. Morin, S. Aoun and S. Al-Baba Douaihy (eds.), Le nouvel âge des extrêmes? Les démocraties occidentales, la radicalisation et l’extrémisme violent. Montréal, Canada: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2021. 483-504.

 

“Introduction: Amy Williamsen and Science Fiction: A Call to (Empathic) Action.” Special Cluster on Science Fiction in Cervantes. Ed. B. Nelson. Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 40.2 (2020): 15-33.

 

 “Algorithmic Bias and the Pastoral: Sexual Misrecognition in Light of Natural Knowledge.” Special Cluster on Science Fiction in Cervantes. Ed. B. Nelson. Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 40.2 (2020): 73-93.

 

Co-authored with Vivek Venkatesh and Jason Wallin. “Necrophilic Empathy: An Urgent Reading of Miguel de Cervantes’s La Numancia.” Writing in the End of Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World. Ed. David Castillo and Brad Nelson. Hispanic Issues Online 23 (2019): 97-124. https://cla.umn.edu/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/hiol_23_05_nelson_venkatesh_and_wallin.pdf

 

Co-authored with David Castillo. “The Poetics and Politics of Apocalyptic and Dystopian Discourses.” Writing in the End of Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World. Ed. David Castillo and Brad Nelson. Hispanic IssuesOnline 23 (2019): 97-124. 1-15. https://cla.umn.edu/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/hiol_23_intro_castillo_and_nelson.pdf

 

“Religion and Sex Crimes in Baroque Spain: The Avemaria as Alibi in His Wife’s Executioner, by María de Zayas.” Théologiques, Special Number on Praising and Cursing God Through Music, ed. Éric Bellavance and Vivek Venkatesh. 26.1 (2018): 61-82. 

 

“Free Will and Indeterminacy in Cervantes: From Molina to Heisenberg…and Beyond!” Cervantes 37.2 (2017): 115-42.

 

Co-authored with Julio Baena. “Introduction: Reading Medialogies Reading Reality: Just Deserts.” A Polemical Companion to Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media, by David Castillo and William Egginton. Hispanic Issues Debates 8 (2017): 1-21. 

 

“Calderón’s Aurora en Copacabana: A Scandalous Reading.” Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz. Ed. Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson. New York: Peter Lang, 2017. 217-30.

 

“Baroque Science Fiction: A Proposal.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Special number Nuevas aproximaciones al canon hispánico de la temprana modernidad. Ed. Raquel Trilla and Ranka Minic-Vidovic. 41.1 (2016): 193-214.

 

Co-authored with Vivek Venkatesh, Jason Wallin and Jeffrey Podoshen, et al. “Individual and communal factors impacting the spread and reception of online hate speech in the black metal scene: Theoretical and methodological implications.” In Metal Music and Community, ed. Nelson Varas and Niall William Richard Scott. Lexington Press, 2016. 127-50.

 

“Poet or Pimp? Theatricality and Sex Crimes in Lope de Vega and Cervantes.” ¿Promete el autor segunda parte? Cuatrocientos años de una promesa cervantina. Eds. Antonio Cortijo Ocaña and Francisco Layna Ranz. eHumanista Cervantes 4 (2015): 178-95.

 

“The Performance of Justice: Good-Natured Rule Breaking in Calderón’s El alcalde de Zalamea.” La razón de estado en las letras del Siglo de Oro. Ed. Enric Mallorquí-Ruscalleda. eHumanista 31 (2015): 411-25.

 

 “Eventos ocasionales: La ciencia media y la ficción en Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda.” Comentarios a Cervantes. Actas selectas del VIII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas. Ed. Emilio Martínez Mata and María Fernández Ferreiro. Asturias: Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson, 2015. 1039-51. 

 

“1581: Emblematics, Mathematics, and Melancholia.” Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies 21 (2014): 135-60. 

 

“El machismo y la identidad gay en Noche de Ronda.” Identidad y Diáspora: El Teatro de Pedro R. Monge Rafuls. Ed. Elena M. Martínez and Francisco Soto. Valencia: Aduana Vieja, 2014. 285-302. [Abridged reprint and translation of “Pedro Monge-Rafuls and Mapping the Post?Modern Subject in Latino Theater.” Gestos: Teoría y Práctica del Teatro Hispánico 24 (1997): 135-48.] 

 

“Knowledge, Fiction, and the Other in Cervantes’s La Gitanilla.” Romance Quarterly (special issue on Cervantes’s Novelas Ejemplares. Ed. Moisés R. Castillo) 61.2 (2014): 125-37. 

 

“Zayas Unchained: A Perverse God or Theological Kitsch?” Writing Monsters: Essays on Iberian and Latin American Cultures. Eds. Adriana Gordillo and Nicholas Spadaccini. Hispanic Issues Online 15 (2014): 42-59. 

 

“Perverse Currency.” (Re)Reading Gracián in a Self-Made World. Hispanic Issues On Line Debates 4 (Fall 2012): 35–41. 

 

“Afterword.” Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds. Eds. Anthony J. Cascardi and Leah Middlebrook. Nashville: U of Vanderbilt P, 2012. 291-302. 

 

Co-authored with David R. Castillo “Introduction: Modern Scenes / Modern Sceneries.” Spectacle and Topophilia: Reading Early Modern and Postmodern Hispanic Cultures. Eds. B. Nelson and D. Castillo. Nashville: U of Vanderbilt P, December, 2011. ix-xxx. 

 

“Signs of the Times: Emblems of Baroque Science Fiction.” Spectatorship and Topophilia in Early Modern and Postmodern Hispanic Cultures. Eds. B. Nelson and D. Castillo. Hispanic Issues. Nashville: U of Vanderbilt P, December, 2011. 65-90. 

 

“The Aesthetics of Rape, and the Rape of Aesthetics.” Hispanic Literatures and the Question of a Liberal Education. Ed. Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini. Hispanic Issues Online 8 (Fall 2011): 62–80. 

 

 “The Gift of Art and Other Trojan Horses of Modernity: Calderón’s La aurora en Copacabana.” La violencia en el mundo hispánico en el Siglo de Oro. Eds. Juan Manuel Escudero and Victoriano Roncero. Biblioteca Filológico Hispana 117. Madrid: Visor, 2010. 151-63. 

 

“Philology and the Emblem.” Recovering Philology. Philology and Its Histories. Ed. Sean Gurd. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2010. 107-26. 

 

Co-authored with Nadia Altschul “Philology and Transatlantic Disconnections.” Estudios hispánicos: Perspectivas internacionales. Eds. Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini. Hispanic Issues On-Line 2 (2007): 55-64.

 

“Sor Juana’s Neptuno alegórico: An Inquiry into Baroque Strategies of Hegemonic Redemption and Dissolution.” Crosscurrents: Transatlantic Approaches to Early Modern Spanish and Spanish-American Theater. Ed. Mindy Badía and Bonnie Gasior. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2006. 104-23. 

 

“Tasteful Machinery: Baltasar Gracián and the Organized Body of Taste.” Reason and Its Others in Early Modern Times (Spain/Italy 1500s-1700s). Ed. David R. Castillo and Massimo Lollini. Hispanic Issues. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2006. 79-100. 

            

“Capes and Swords: Teaching the Theatricality of Golden Age poetry.” Caliope (special issue on teaching poetry, in honor of Elias Rivers. Ed. Edward Friedman) 11.2 (2005): 111-24. 

 

“From Hieroglyphic Presence to Emblematic Sign: the Ritual Motivation of Bias in the Auto Sacramental.” Hispanic Baroques: Reading Cultures in Context. Ed. Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Martín-Estudillo. Hispanic Issues 31. Nashville: Vanderbilt U P: 2005. 107-36. 

 

“Icons of Honor: Cervantes, Lope, and the Staging of Blind Faith.” “Special Number on Cervantes’s Theater and Theatricality in Cervantes.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 56.2 (2004): 413-442. 

 

“Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda: Una crítica cervantina de la alegoresis emblemática.” Cervantes 24.2 (2004): 43-69. 

 

“The Marriage of Art and Honor: Anamorphosis and Control in Calderón’s La dama duende.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 54.2 (2002): 407-42. 

 

“Emblematic Representation and Guided Culture in Baroque Spain: Juan de Horozco y Covarrubias.”  Culture and the State in Spain: 1550-1850. Ed. Tom Lewis and Francisco Sánchez.  Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1999.  157-95. 

 

“El Alcalde de Zalamea: Pedro Crespo’s Marvelous Game of Emblematic Wit.”  Bulletin of the Comediantes 50, No. 1 (1998): 35-57. 

 

“Dialogism and the Sonnet: Silence, Reading and the Ethics of Knowledge in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.”  Romance Languages Annual X (1998): 744-50. 

 

Co-authored with Moisés Castillo “The Political-theological Program of Antonio Vieira in the Context of Baroque Guided Culture.” Romance Languages Annual IX (1998): 429-37. 

 

“Pedro Monge-Rafuls and Mapping the Post?modern Subject in Latino Theater.” GESTOS: Teoría y Práctica del Teatro Hispánico  24 (1997): 135-48. 

 

“Gongora's Soledades: Portrait of the Subject.” Romance Languages Annual VIII (1996): 608-14. 

 

“Juridical Deterritorialization and Institutional Power Struggles in the Discovery of America.” Romance Languages Annual VII (1995): 566-72. 

 

Publications in Acts or Conference proceedings

 

“La Aurora en Iwo Jima: Calderón, Eastwood y los límites del imperialismo espectacular.” Córdoba: Cauce de civilizaciones: Las Actas del XXVIII Asamblea General de ALDEEU, celebrado en Córdoba en julio de 2008. Ed. Juan Fernández Jiménez and Guadalupe R. Alvear Madrid. Erie, PA: ALDEEU, 2011. 149-58. 

 

“El Neptuno alegórico de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: una investigación de las estrategias barrocas de redención y disolución hegemónicas.” Las Actas de la XXIII Asamblea General de ALDEEU, celebrada en Jaén en julio de 2003. Ed. Juan Fernández Jiménez, Jesús López-Peláez Casellas y Encarnación Medina Arjona. Jaén, Spain: Universidad de Jaén, 2006. 193-200. 

 

“El consumo de ficciones deliciosas: Una crítica del mercado cultural en María de Zayas.” Congreso abierto: Publicación en la red de las actas del 42 Congreso de la ACH, 2006.

 

“La emblemática como marco teórico-crítico en los estudios trans-atlánticos.” Congreso abierto: Publicación en la red de las actas del 40 Congreso de la ACH, 2004.

 

Book reviews

 

(submitted) Menaldi, Veronica. Love Magic and Control in Premodern Iberian Literature. New York: Routledge, 2022. Renaissance Quarterly.

 

Baena, Julio. Dividuals: The Split Human and Humanist Split in Early Modern Spanish Literature. New Orleans: U Press of the South, 2020. MLN 138.2 (2023): 535-38.

 

Gerli, E. Michael. Cervantes: Displacements, Inflections, and Transcendence. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2019. Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America Volume 42 Issue 1, Spring 2022, pp. 223-226.

 

Marr, Alexander, Raphaël Garrod, José Ramón Marcaida, and Richard J. Oosterhoff. Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe. Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh P, 2019. Caliope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. 25.2 (2020): 256-60.

 

García González, Francisco. Asesino en serio. New York: Sudaquia Editores, 2017. La Santa Crítica, July 25, 2019. http://lasantacritica.com/lo-que-trajo-el-cartero/francisco-garcia-gonzalez-asesino-en-serio/

 

García Santo-Tomás, Enrique. La musa refractada. Literatura y óptica en la España del Barroco. Madrid; Frankfurt: Iberoamericana; Vervuert, 2015. MLN 131.2 (2016): 553-55.

 

Simerka, Barbara. Knowing Subjects: Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern Spanish Literature. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2013. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 92.8 (2015): 843-45.

 

Mayers, Kathryn M. Visions of Empire in Colonial Spanish American Ekphrastic Writing. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2012. Caliope: Journal for the Society of Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry 19.1 (2014): 226-28.

 

Beusterien, John. Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez: An Animal Studies Reading of Early Modern Spain. London: Ashgate, 2013. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 91.6 (2014): 680-81.

 

Schmidt, Rachel. Forms of Modernity: Don Quixote and Modern Theories of the Novel. Toronto: U Toronto P, 2011. La revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos 37.2 (2013): 413-16. 

 

Vivar, Francisco. La Numancia de Cervantes y la memoria de un mito. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2004. Bulletin of the Comediantes 60.1 (2008): 153-54. 

 

Cañadas, Ivan. Public Theater in Golden Age Madrid and Tudor-Stuart London. Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2005. Journal of British Studies, Incorporating Albion 46 (January 2007): 169-70. 

 

Garcés, María Antonia. Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive’s Tale. Comparative Literature Studies 43.4 (2006): 544-48. 

 

Egginton, William. How the World Became a Stage. MLN: Modern Language Notes 118.5 (2003): 1327-29. 

 

Jara, René. Los pliegues del silencio. Narrativa en el fin del milenio. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana48(1998): 251-53.

 

Translation

 

When a Robot Decides to Die and other stories. By Francisco García-González. Translation and Introduction by Bradley J. Nelson. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2021.

 

“Eight Quebecois Surnames” by Francisco García González. Your Impossible Voice Issue 30, Spring 2024.

 

Policy publications

 

“We Need an Outcomes-Based Approach to Doctoral Education.” University Affairs February 16, 2021. https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/we-need-an-outcomes-based-approach-to-doctoral-education/

 

Blogs

 

“Numancia Now! Anti-Imperialistic Media Hacks by Cervantes, Coppola and Zelinsky.” Cervantes Public Project May 2, 2022. (In English and Spanish) https://www.cervantespublicproject.com/blog

 

“The Shipwreck of Identity in North America: A Cervantine Take.” Cervantes Public Project October 18, 2023. (In English and Spanish) https://www.cervantespublicproject.com/blog

 

Conference presentations

 

September 2024 “Extremity and Quixotism in Early and Late Modernity.” Cervantes Society of America. Albuquerque, NM. 

July 2024 “La ficción como instrumento de combate contra la desinformación y el autoritarismo.” VI Jornadas de la Asociación de Literatura y Cine Españoles del Siglo XXI. Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

May 2024 “El trauma, la desinformación y el poder in la primera modernidad y hoy.” Annual Conference of the 60^thmeeting of the Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas. Montreal, QC

(by invitation) May 2024 “The Academy under Attack.” Opening remarks for the Annual Conference of the Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas. Montreal, QC

(by invitation) May 2024 “Miguel de Cervantes: ‘Layers, Donkey, Layers.’” Multi-layered Authorship: On Authors, Artists, Patrons, and Apocrypha in the Western Tradition. Concordia’s 4^th Space.

April 2024 “Disinformation in the Classroom: A Quixotic Approach.” Disinformation: Creation, Dissemination and Pedagogical Responses. Concordia’s 4^th Space.

(by invitation) April 2024 “Pedagogical Approaches to Disinformation and Hate Speech.” Center for Information Integrity Member Workshop. SUNY Buffalo.

(by invitation) March 2024 “The Cervantes Public Project.” El canon español interpelando nuestro siglo: la violencia de género ayer y hoy. Horizon Europe Project. University of Milan and the Milan Cervantes Institute. Milan, Italy.

January 2024 “Extremity and Quixotism in Early and Late Modernity.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA.

November 2023 “Extremity and Quixotism in Early and Late Modernity.” Texas Cervantes Symposium. U of Texas, Austin, TX.

September 2023 “Primero sueño and Reality Literacy: Sor Juana’s Poetics as Antidote to Disinformation.” Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. University of Illinois, Chicago. 

June, 2023 “Cervantes Outside the Ivory Tower.” Cervantes Global/Global Cervantes. First meeting between the Asociación de Cervantistas and the Cervantes Society of America. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

 

March, 2023 “Hijabs versus Crosses: Talking about Cervantes in the Context of Quebec’s Bill 21.” Renaissance Society of America, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

December, 2022 “Cervantes Public Project: A Roundtable.” V Cervantes Symposium of the Northeast: Remimagined Communities in the Age of Cervantes. Instituto Cervantes, New York, New York.

 

December, 2022 “Empathy in Cervantes: Its Power and Limitations.” V Cervantes Symposium of the Northeast: Remimagined Communities in the Age of Cervantes. Instituto Cervantes, New York, New York.

 

November, 2022 “Ariel Dorfman’s Cautivos as Therapy for Political Trauma.” Texas Cervantes Symposium, University of Texas, Austin.

 

September, 2022 “The Representation of Moorish and Muslim Characters in Early Modern Spanish Literature.” Muslim Awareness Week, Concordia University, Montreal.

 

June, 2022 “Concordia University Proposal for Hosting the 2023 annual meeting.” International Society for Metal Music Studies, Mexico City, Mexico.

 

April, 2022 “Art and Free Will in Early and Late Modernity: Case Studies of Extreme (self-) Manipulation and Resistance,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.

 

(by invitation) December, 2021 “An Outcomes-Based Approach for the Future of the PhD: We’re All in This Together.”61st Annual Meeting of the Council of Graduate Studies, New Orleans.

 

(by invitation) November, 2021 “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695): Poet, Thinker, Musician, Woman.” El Caracol: L’univers musical de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, concert event organized and performed by the Ensemble Scholastica. Chapelle Notre Dame de Bon Secours, Montreal.

 

October, 2021 “From Critical Reading to Collective Action: A Progressive Reading of 

Castillo and Egginton’s Notion of Reality Literacy in Cervantes.” Texas Cervantes Symposium 2021, University of Texas, Austin, TX,

 

July, 2021 “Aesthetics and the Staging of Sexual Violence in Cervantes and Lope.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Conference (remotely on Zoom).

 

April, 2021 “The Persistence of Melancholy in Don Quixote: What Love Has to Do with It.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (remotely on Zoom).

 

(by invitation) April, 2021 “An Outcomes-Based Approach to PhD Programs.” Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (remotely on Zoom).

 

January, 2021 “The Persistence of Melancholy in Don Quixote: Now What?” Modern Language Association (remotely on Zoom).

 

October, 2020 “Francisco García González and the Myth of the Endless Revolution.” VI International Conference on Myth Criticism: Myth and Science Fiction, Madrid (held remotely on Zoom). 

 

February, 2020  “Engaging Students on the #MeToo Movement: Framing Contemporary Crime Shows with Tirso and Zayas.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

 

(By invitation) February, 2020 “Cervantes and Science: Where Fiction and Middle Science Joust in Early Modernity.” Symposium in honor of John Jay Allen. University of Kentucky.

 

October, 2019 “Sor Juana’s Primero Sueño as a Critique of Scholastic Utopianism; or Early         Modern Science Fiction and Its Limits.” Society for Renaissance and Baroque Poetry.            Irvine, CA. 

 

February, 2019 “Religion and Sex Crimes in Baroque Spain: The Avemaria as Alibi in His Wife’s Executioner, by María de Zayas.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

 

(By invitation) January, 2019 “Doing ‘Relevance’: Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives.” Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL.

 

September, 2018 “Neoliberalism and Social Necrophilia: A Recent Adaptation of Cervantes’s La Numancia.” 2018 North American Cervantes Society of America Conference, Calgary, Alberta.

 

July, 2018 “Supporting International Student Enrollment.” Council of Graduate Schools, Chicago, IL.

 

April, 2018 “Breaking Silos: Knowledge Mobilization and Public Engagement in a World of Alternative Facts, Climate Change Skeptics, and Media Information Bubbles.” Northeastern Association of Graduate School, Montreal.

 

(By invitation) February, 2108 “Cognitive Approaches to Cultural Studies: Problems in Empathy.” Concordia Centre for Cognitive Science

 

February, 2018 “Emblem Books and Medialogies: Scientific Obfuscation in the First Age of Inflationary Media.” The 24th Annual Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Scottsdale, AZ.

 

November, 2017 With Vivek Venkatesh, “Necrophilic Empathy in Cervantes’ La Numancia.” Apocalyptic Imagination in Early Modern Spain, Concordia University, Montreal.

 

October, 2017 “Poetry and Necrophilia: Reading Cervantes’s La Numancia through Anachronism.” Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Sevilla, Spain.

 

(by invitation) October, 2017 “Emblem Books and Medialogies: Scientific Obfuscation in the First Age of Inflationary Media.” Transforming Books, McGill University.

 

June, 2017 With Amy Williamsen “Entre ficción y ciencia: Hacia una lectura cuántica del Persiles.” Cervantes en el Septentrión: Tromso, Norway.

 

(By invitation) April, 2017 “Master Programs: Two Architectural Models.” Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools, New York, NY.

 

(By invitation) March, 2017 “Trends in Interdisciplinary Graduate Education.” Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Education, Concordia University.

 

(By invitation) February, 2017 “The Theology of/and Sex Crimes in María de Zayas.” California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

 

(By invitation) November, 2016 “A Cervantine Approach to Science Fiction.”  Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

 

(By invitation) November, 2016 “Baroque Science Fiction: A Cervantine Proposal.” York University, Toronto, ON.

 

October, 2016 “The Theology of Sexual Violence in María de Zayas.” Gemela (Estudios sobre la mujer en España y Latinoamérica), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

(By invitation) January, 2016 “Grimposium, West Side Gory: Panel discussion on sexual violence and misogyny in the Black Metal Music Scene featuring musicians, journalists, and academics,” aQuarius recOrds, San Francisco, CA. https://vimeo.com/153526590

 

(By invitation) January, 2016 “Grimposium, West Side Gory: Improvisational Reading on Sexual Violence and Misogyny,” aQuarius recOrds, San Francisco, CA. https://vimeo.com/153606805

 

October, 2015 “Poet or Pimp? Theatricality and Sex Crimes in Lope de Vega and Cervantes.” “Quixotic Disciplines,” a seminar organized by Jesús Velasco, at Columbia University, New York, New York.

 

October, 2015 “Best Practices in Industry Partnerships.” Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Administrators, University of Calgary.

 

September, 2015 In collaboration with Vivek Venkatesh: “Spectacles of hate speech: An exemplary approach to transgressions in black metal.” From My Cold Dead Hand: Cervantes and the Public Humanities in the Twenty-first Century, a Pointed Conversation, Concordia University, Montreal.

 

July, 2015 “The Theatrical Representation of Sex Crimes in Lope de Vega and Cervantes.” ALDEEU, Segovia, Spain.

 

(Invited Keynote Address) March 2015 “Quantum Solace: Apocalyptic Accommodations in Early and Late Modernity.” Graduate Student Symposium at SUNY Buffalo, Department of Romance Languages. 

 

March 2015 “The Performance of Justice in Calderón’s El alcalde de Zalamea.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

April, 2014 “Knowledge, Fiction, and the Other in Cervantes’s La Gitanilla.” The Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington, KY.

 

April, 2014 “1581: Mathematics, Emblematics, and Melancholia.” The Renaissance Society of America, New York, NY.

 

April 2013 “Theatrical Emblems and the Embodiment of Time: The Case of Occasion.” The Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington, KY.

 

April 2013 “A Quantum Approach to Don Quijote.” The Renaissance Society of America, San Diego, CA.

 

November 2012 “1581: Mathematics, Emblematics, and Melancholia.” Early Modern Projects Research Group. Concordia University. Montreal, QC.

 

(by invitation) June 2012 “La ciencia y el sueño en Calderón.” Ometeca: XII Sesión de trabajo sobre las relaciones entre las humanidades y las ciencias en el mundo hispánico, Madrid, Spain.

 

June, 2012 “La ciencia y la ficción: Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda.” VIII Congreso Internacion de la Asociación de Cervantistas, Oviedo, Spain.

 

April, 2012 “Cervantes, Gracián, and the Embodied Subject.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY.

 

March, 2012 “Free Will and Theatricality: Calderón’s La vida es sueño.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

March, 2011 “Dressing for the Occasion: Cervantes and the Virgin Mary.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

May, 2010 “Signs of the Times: Emblems of Baroque Science Fiction.” Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, Concordia University, Montreal, QC.

 

April, 2010 “The Writer Who Played with Fire: A Millenial Approach to María de Zayas.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Montreal, QC.

 

March, 2009 “Suzerains of the Earth: The Dramatization of Colonial Encounters.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

July, 2008 “El don del arte y otros regalos griegos de la modernidad.” ALDEEU, Córdoba, Spain.

 

June, 2008 “The Gift of Art and other Trojan Horses of Modernity: La aurora en Copacabana.” Violence in Golden Age Theatre, sponsored by the Hispanic Baroque Project, Stratford, ON.

 

(by invitation) March, 2008  Materialismo cultural y la inscripción de la autoría en María de Zayas.” Centro de Recursos del Español, Université de Montreal. Montreal, QC.

 

(by invitation) February, 2008 “Spectator Spots in Marginal Spaces: The Replication of Identity in Calderón’s La Aurora en Copacabana.” McGill University. Montreal, QC.

 

March, 2007 “Philological Performances: Pedro Crespo as Literary Subject.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

November, 2006  “From Presence to Transcendence: Golden Age Philology and the Resistance to Theory.” Recovering Philology. Philology and Its Histories, an international symposium sponsored by SSHRC and Concordia University. Montreal, QC.

 

May, 2006 “El consumo de ficciones deliciosas: Una crítica del mercado cultural en María de Zayas.” XLII Congreso de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas. York University, Toronto.

 

November, 2005 “Las semillas del colonialismo: una figura evangélica, desde Cortés a Lope de Vega.” Spanish Program Lecture Series, 2005-06. Concordia University. Montreal, QC.

 

July, 2005 “La otredad de la violencia estatal en Lope de Vega y Miguel de Cervantes.” XXIII Asamblea General de ALDEEU, celebrada en Burgos, July 2005. Burgos, Spain.

 

May, 2005 “Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda: Ocasión y fortuna en la frontera.” XLI Congreso Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas. London, Ontario.

 

May, 2005 “Cervantes in the Boondocks: The Morisco as Witness for the Persecution.” Dis/locac/tión: WRITING EXILE /MIGRANCY /NOMADISM/BORDERCROSSING. Concordia University. Montreal, QC.

 

(by invitation) April, 2005  “The End of an American Story: Lope de Vega’s Emblems of indios.” North East Modern Language Association, Boston-Cambridge, MA. 

 

March, 2005 “Percepción y ceguera imperiales: visiones teatrales y novelescas de Lope de Vega y Miguel de Cervantes.” Concordia University. Montreal, QC.

 

March, 2005 “Blindness and Imperial Insight in Lope and Cervantes.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

May, 2004 “La emblemática como marco teórico-crítico en los estudios trans-atlánticos.” Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

 

October, 2003 “Icons of Honor: Competing Theories of Icons and Images in Cervantes’s El retablo de la maravillas.” Mid-America Conference of Hispanic Literatures. Boulder, CO.

 

October, 2003 “A Dog’s Eye View of Human Desire or, Baroque Love’s a Bitch: Miguel de Cervantes meets Alejandro González Iñárritu.” CMLL Interdisciplinary Film Conference, Concordia University. Montreal, QC.

 

(by invitation) September, 2003 “The Ritual Motivation of Bias: Emblems and the Other in the Auto Sacramental.” Freedom and Containment: Symposium on Baroque Literature and Culture. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN.

 

July, 2003 “‘El Neptuno alegórico’ de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: La alegoresis emblemática versus le performance de la interpretación historiográfica.” ALDEEU. Universidad de Jaén, Spain.

 

May, 2003 “Teatralidad y alegoría en el Neptuno Alegórico de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.” XXXIX Congreso de laAsociación Canadiense de Hispanistas. Halifax, Nova Scotia.

 

(by invitation) March, 2003 “Sor Juana’s Neptuno alegórico: An Inquiry into Baroque Strategies of Hegemonic Redemption and Dissolution.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX. 

 

September, 2002 “Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda: Una crítica cervantina de la alegoresis emblemática.” VI Congreso Internacional de Emblemática. The Society for Emblem Studies, La Coruña, Spain.

 

March, 2002 “The Auto Sacramental and the Fabrication of Hypostasis: Calderón’s El gran mercado del mundo in Light of Emblematic Aesthetics.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

April, 2001 “Juan de Borja’s Empresas morales: Meditative Confusion, Emblematics, and Ideology.” University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY.

 

March, 2001 “The Marriage of Art and Honor: Anamorphosis and Control in Calderón’s La dama duende.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

April, 2000 “Cervantes’s Materialist Aesthetics: Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda.” University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY.

 

April, 1999 “El arte nuevo de hacer emblemas: The Repositioning of Italian Hieroglyphic and Emblematic Discourse in Counter Reformation Spain.” American Association for Italian Studies Conference Symposium. University of Oregon. Eugene, OR.

 

November, 1998 “The New Art of Making Emblems: The Creation of Virtual Communities, Past and Present.” Graduate Doctoral Dissertation Fellows Symposium Series. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN.

 

October, 1998 “Dialogism and the Sonnet: Silence and the Ethics of Knowledge in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.” Purdue Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film. Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN.

 

(by invitation) April, 1997  “Round Table Discussion.” The State of the U. S. Latino Theater: Mexican-American, Cuban-American, Puerto Rican, and Other Hispanic Voices of the Diaspora. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN.

 

October, 1997 (with Moisés Castillo) “The Theological-political Program of Antonio Vieira in the Context of Baroque Guided Culture.” Purdue Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film. Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN.

 

February, 1997 (with Moisés Castillo) “The Oblique Gaze in Don Quixote: an Example of the Burla in Pastoral Love.” LA CHISPA. Tulane University. New Orleans, LA.

 

November, 1996 (with Moisés Castillo) “The Oblique Gaze in Don Quixote: A Study of the ‘burla’ in Maritornesque and Pastoral Love.”1996 MMLA Conference Symposium. Minneapolis, MN. 

 

October, 1996 “Gongora’s Soledades: Portrait of the Subject.” Purdue Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film. Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN.

 

January, 1996 “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Towards an Understanding of the Subject of Representation in the Baroque.” Works in Progress Lecture Series. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN.

 

October, 1995 “Juridical Deterritorialization and Institutional Power Struggles in the Discovery of America.” Purdue Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film. Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN.

 

October, 1995 “El Imbunche: Sewing-up the Holes in Time in José Donoso’s El obsceno pájaro de la noche.” The Anthropology of Change. An Interdisciplinary Conference. Stanford University. Stanford, CA.

 

Conferences/Symposia Organized

 

2024                Lead organizer for SSHRC (Connections) funded Disinformation: Creation, Dissemination and Pedagogical Responses. Concordia’s 4^th Space.

 

2024                Local representative/liaison for the 60^th Congress of the Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, Concordia University, May 2024

 

2024                Organizing Committee for the 11^th meeting of Escritoras hispanocanadienses, Concordia, May, 2024

 

2023                Organizing committee member. The 6th meeting of the International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS): No Outsides: Metal in an Era of Contagion.

 

2023                “Radio Newscasting as a Learning Tool for Learners of Spanish as a Second Language.” By Pablo Salinas, Shawnee State University. Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia University, March 29, 2023.

 

2022                “El mar en la representación cinematográfica de la migración interna en el Perú: de Gregorio a La teta asustada. By Pablo Salinas, Shawnee State University. Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia University, September 28, 2022.

 

2022                “Dress Codes, Social and Political Messages: from Medieval Spain to Bill 21.” Islamic History Month and Peace Days – Montreal, hosted by Muslim Awareness Week. Adnan Hussein, Kathleen Ridolfo, and Bradley Nelson. Concordia University, Montreal.

 

2022                “Partnerships with Indigenous Peoples.” Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools. Véronique Bussières, Suzanne Greenlaw, Naomie Léonard. Zoom. https://neagsblog.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/annual-meeting-agenda-2022-4.pdf

 

2019                “Breaking Silos: Knowledge Mobilization and Public Engagement in a World of Alternative Facts and Media Information Bubbles,” Vivek Venkatesh and William Lindsey. 2019 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools. April 11-13, Philadelphia, PA.

 

2018                “Graduate Education for an Uncertain World (This is Not the Apocalypse).” 2018 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools. April 19-21, Montreal, Canada. https://neagsblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/2018-program-agenda-montreal-website1.pdf

 

2018                “Learning to Hate: Pluralism in an Era of Echo Chambers.” Concordia University’s Interdisciplinary Summer Institute. Week-long graduate seminar for graduate students. Co-curated with Vivek Venkatesh. 

                        https://www.concordia.ca/sgs/summer-institute/2018.html

 

2017                “Apocalyptic Imagination in Early Modern Spain.” Shifra Armon, Fulbright Canada Research Chair, Jennifer Faucher, PhD student at Concordia, Brad Nelson and Vivek Venkatesh, Concordia University. http://www.concordia.ca/cuevents/artsci/cmll/2017/11/14/apocalyptic-imagination-early-modern-spain-nelson-faucher-venkatesh-armon.html?c=artsci/cmll

 

2015                “From My Cold Dead Hand: Cervantes and the Public Humanities in the Twenty-First Century,” a one-day symposium with Julio Baena (U Colorado), David R. Castillo (SUNY Buffalo), Moisés Castillo (U Kentucky), William Egginton (Johns Hopkins U), and Vivek Venkatesh (Concordia U). Concordia University, September, 2015. https://vimeo.com/154887208

 

2015                Dr. Amy Williamsen, University of North Carolina, Greensborough, “Critical                   Complications: Engendering Empathy in Cervantes.” Concordia University, 2015.

 

2015                Dr. Edward Friedman, Vanderbilt University, “Forever Young? Don Quixote at                            400 Years.” Concordia University, 2014.

 

2014                Dr. Laura Vidler, US Military Academy, “The Poetics of Performance Reconstruction: Reviving and Revising the Comedia.” Concordia University, 2014. https://vimeo.com/92089350

 

2014                Dr. Bruce Burningham, Illinois State University, “Performance Cognition and the Oral Tradition.” Concordia University, 2014. https://vimeo.com/86838233

 

2013                Dr. Maria Fionda, University of Mississippi, “Executive Function and Second

Language Processing of Morphosyntax.” Concordia University, 2013. https://vimeo.com/84967688

 

2011                Dr. William Childers, Brooklyn College at the CUNY Graduate Center, “The 

                        Moriscos and ‘Race’—Exploring the Roots of Modern Racism in Sixteenth-

                        Century Spain.” Concordia University, 2012.

 

2004                Dr. Carmen Moreno-Nuño, Wesleyan University, “The Spanish War: Traces of Trauma.” Concordia University, 2003.

 

2004                Dr. Moisés R. Castillo, Trinity College, “Indios en escena: La representación del amerindio en el teatro del Siglo de Oro.” Concordia University, 2003.

 

2001                David R. Castillo, SUNY Buffalo, “Jews, Bastards, Usual Suspects, Social Symptoms: Cervantes’ Retabloand Zizek’s Theory of Ideology.” Concordia University, 2002.

 

Graduate Supervision

 

2023                PhD Thesis Committee, Lamiae Aidi, Concordia University (PhD of the Humanities). Representing Otherwise: A Public Pedagogy Contesting Islamophobia through Popular Culture.

2018                MA Thesis Committee, Lisa Vanden Berghe, Concordia U (History). The Needles Excellency: John Taylor in Perspective.

2016-20          PhD Thesis Supervisor, Jennifer Faucher, Concordia U. “The Picaresque and Promoting Being.”

2016                PhD Thesis Committee, Abelardo León, Concordia U. “Social Change and Sexual Diversity in Times of Emerging Neoliberalism in Chile.” 

2015                MA Thesis Supervisor, James Buchanan, Concordia U. “La representación del moro en Las Cantigas de Santa María de Alfonso X, El Sabio: un precursor a la “maurofilia” de Historia del Abencerraje y la hermosa Jarifa.”

 

2013                PhD Thesis Committee, Philomène Longpré, Concordia U “Matrix of Sensations: A Multisensory Approach to Responsive Video Membranes.”

 

2010                MA Thesis External Examiner, Martine Gagnon, Concordia U. “Golden Age Spain Wearing English Clothes: James Mabbe, Renaissance Translator of Spanish Prose Literature.”

 

2009                PhD External Examiner, Susana Artal, Laval University. “Francisco de Quevedo y François Rabelais : Imágenes deshumanizantes y representación literaria del cuerpo.”

 

Honours Supervision

 

2010/2 La representación del otro en Las Cantigas de Alfonso X, James Buchanan

 

2007/4 Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, Raquel Dulevich

 

2007/4 Sor Juana’s Los empeños de una casa, Yazmet Madariaga

 

2007/4 El carnaval en Cervantes, Giovanna García

 

2007/4 Lazarillo de Tormes, Marilou Bolduc

 

2006/2 La pícara Justina, Jennifer Faucher

 

2006/2 El Inca Garcilaso, Pablo Salinas

 

2002/2 From Desengaño to Romanticism: A Study of Don Juan, Sharon Richards

 

2002/2 Cervantes and the Subject of Desire, Maria Fionda

 

2002/4 Dialogism, Language and Ideologies of National Identity, Spain 1492-1945, Giuliano Muñoz

 

TEACHING

 

Concordia University (2000-present)

 

2024-25           MODL 398                  Medieval Story Telling in Mediterranean Spaces

                        SPAN 412                   Spanish Golden Age Theater and Poetry

                        SPAN 302                   Spanish Grammar and Composition II

 

2023-24           SPAN 310                   Conquest and Empire: Early Modern Spanish Lit.

                        SPAN 398                   Hispanic Science Fiction in Translation

 

2023                GRAD 698                  “No Outsides: Underground Arts as a Catalyst for Pluralism                                    in an Era of Polarization” Part of the annual meeting of the                                           International Society for Metal Music Studies, Concordia                                        University. June 1-14.

 

2022-23           SPAN 498-                 Don Quixote in the Age of Disinformation

                        ENGL 398

                        SPAN 301                   Spanish Grammar and Composition

 

2020-21           SPAN 406                   Medieval Spanish Literature and Decolonization

 

2019-20           SPAN 498-                 Don Quijote

ENGL 398                  Don Quixote

 

2017-18           SPAN 310                   Conquest and Empire: Spanish Literature from the 12th to                                                              the 17th Centuries

 

2016-17           SPAN 411                   Freedom and Containment in Spanish Golden Age Prose

 

2014-15           SPAN 498-                 Don Quijote

ENGL 398                  Don Quixote

 

2013-14           SPAN 406/643            Cognitive Approaches to Spanish Medieval Lit.

 

2012-13           SPAN 412                   Spanish Golden Age Poetry and Theater

 

2011-12           SPAN 411                   Freedom and Containment in Golden Age Prose

                        SPAN 642                   Topics in Critical Thinking and Theory: Baroque Science                                                                Fiction

 

2010-11           SPAN 601                   Research Methods and Discourse Analysis

                        SPAN 498-

                        ENGL 398                  Don Quijote

 

2009-10           SPAN 310/2                Survey of Spanish Literature I

                        SPAN 406/2                From Orality to Literacy in Medieval Iberia

 

2007-08           SPAN 310/2 A            Survey of Spanish Literature I

                        SPAN 411/4 AA         Golden Age Prose

 

2006-2007       SPAN 303/2 AA         Intro. to Critical Reading                   

                        SPAN 498/4 –

                        ENGL 398/4 AA        Imperial Fictions: Don Quijote

 

2005-2006       SPAN 472/2 AA         Colonial Writing

                        SPAN 406/4 AA         Medieval Literature

                        

2004-2005       SPAN303/2/AA          Intro. to Critical Reading                   

                        SPAN320/2/A             Survey of Hisp-American Lit 1           

                        SPAN412/4/AA          Golden Age Poetry and Theater         

                        SPAN303/4/A             Intro. to Critical Reading                   

 

2003-2004       SPAN310/2/AA          Survey of Spanish Literature I            

                        SPAN498N/4/AA       Transatlantic Theater                         

                        SPAN411/4/AA          Golden Age Prose                               

                        *Course remission due to FQRSC award

 

2002-2003       SPAN310/2/AA          Survey of Spanish Literature I            

                        SPAN310/2/A             Survey of Spanish Literature I            

                        SPAN498                    Pedagogical Approaches                    

                        SPAN461/4/AA          History of Spanish Language             

                        SPAN406/4/AA          Medieval Literature                            

 

2001-2002       SPAN310/2/A             Survey of Spanish Literature I                                                                       SPAN365/2/A             Intro. Spanish Culture and Civ.        

                        SPAN412/4/AA          Golden Age Poetry and Theater         

                        SPAN461/4/A             History of Spanish Language             

 

2000-2001       SPAN310/2/A             Survey of Spanish Literature I            

                        SPAN411/2/AA          Golden Age Prose                               

                        SPAN311/4/A             Survey of Spanish Literature II          

                        SPAN461/4/A             History of Spanish Language

 

 

SERVICE      

 

External Academic Service

 

·  Commissaire, Commission de la Validation de la Evaluation de Programmes, Bureau de Cooperation Interuniversitaire, Quebec (2023-24)

 

·  Evaluator, SSHRC Connections Grant applications (2023-)

 

·  Executive Committee Member. Réseau d’études latino-americaines de Montréal (2022-)

 

·  Executive Committee Member, Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (2021-)

 

·  Co-founder, The Cervantes Public Project (2021-)

 

·  Executive Committee, Cervantes Society of America (2021-24)

 

·  Executive Committee (affiliate), Council of Graduate Schools (2018-19)

 

·  President, Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (2017-18)

 

·  Executive Committee, Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (2013-2024)

 

·  Evaluator of book manuscripts: U of Toronto P, McGill-Queens UP, U of North Carolina P, Anthem Press

 

·  Member/Evaluator on the Publications Committee for SSHRC’s Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, as an expert in Hispanic Studies (2013-18)

 

·  Member of the editorial board for Hispanic Issues (2005- ) and The Bulletin of the Comediantes (2009-18).

 

·  Responsable de domain for 80^th Congress of ACFAS, 2012.

 

·  SSHRC Grant Application Reviewer, 2004-

 

·  Submissions evaluator for Cervantes, Renaissance Quarterly, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Modern Philology, Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies, Publications for the Modern Language Association, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Théologiques, Journal of Cultural Economy, and Rethinking Marxism.

 

·  External reviewer for promotion to full professor: United States Military Academy; Notre Dame University

 

·  External reviewer for promotion to tenure, associate or full professor: Kansas State University; Portland State University; University of Melbourne; Syracuse University; Columbia University; Johns Hopkins University.

 

·  Assistant Editor, Bulletin of the Comediantes, 2002-09.

 

·  Assistant Editor, Hispanic Issues, 1998-2002.

 

 

Other Internal Service Activities

 

·  University Academic Planning Committee, 2010-12

 

·  University Senate, 2010-12

 

·  Faculty of Arts and Science Steering Committee for Faculty Council, 2007-12.

 

·  Advisory Search Committee for the Principal of the School of Canadian Irish Studies, 2009.

 

·  Member of the Advisory Board for Concordia Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Society and Culture (CISSC), 2007-09.

 

·  Facilitating Alliances, Partnerships and Internationalization: Strategic Planning Committee, 2006-07.

 

·  Implementation Committee for the Concordia Centre for the Humanities, 2002-03 (CISSC).

 

·  Representative to the Council of Graduate Students, 1996-97, U Minnesota.

 

 

Community Involvement

 

·  Volunteer Coach for Notre Dame de Grace Minor Hockey Association, 2005-16.

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Bradley J. Nelson

Curriculum Vitae

 

Employmenthistory

 

2015-2021       AssociateDean, Academic Programs and Development

                        Schoolof Graduate Studies

                        ConcordiaUniversity, Montreal, Quebec

 

2013-2016       AssociateDean, Student Affairs and Postdoctoral Studies

                        Schoolof Graduate Studies

                        ConcordiaUniversity, Montreal, Quebec

 

2013-               Professorof Spanish

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

 

2012-13           GraduateProgram Director, The Individualized Program

School ofGraduate Studies

ConcordiaUniversity, Montreal, Quebec

 

2005-12           Chair,Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics

                        ConcordiaUniversity, Montreal, Quebec

 

2005-13           AssociateProfessor of Spanish

                        ConcordiaUniversity, Montreal, Quebec

 

2000-05           AssistantProfessor of Spanish

ConcordiaUniversity, Montreal, Quebec

 

1999-2000       Lecturerof Spanish

University ofMinnesota

 

1993-99           TeachingAssistant

Department of Spanish and Portuguese                                                          Universityof Minnesota

 

1987-93           HighSchool Spanish Teacher

The Alexander Dawson School, Lafayette, CO (1990-1993)

                        Cambridge-Isanti Senior High School,Cambridge, MN (1987-1990)

 

Education

 

2000                Ph.D.in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics

                        Universityof Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

                       

1995                MAin Hispanic Literatures

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

1987                BSin Secondary Education and Spanish (magna cum laude)

                        St.Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota

 

1985                BAin English (Spanish minor)

                        St.Johns University, Collegeville, Minnesota

 

AcademicLeadership

 

· Associate Dean of AcademicPrograms and Development, SGS, 2015-

 

PrincipalResponsibilities:

 

1.    Advise, analyze, and review allnew graduate curriculum proposals and revisions

2.    Chair the Graduate CurriculumCommittee (comprised of associate deans from the Faculties, supervisors andgraduate students)

3.    Advise on internationalagreements, including the co-tutelleprogram

4.    Liaise with program directors,faculty associate deans, and the Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning

5.    Oversee GradProSkills, theIndividualized Graduate Program, and the Graduate Certificate in UniversityTeaching

 

· Associate Dean of StudentAffairs and Postdoctoral Studies, SGS, 2013-16

 

PrincipalResponsibilities:

 

1.    Interpret, apply, and reviseall university regulations and procedures pertaining to graduate studies andpostdoctoral employees

2.    Interpret and apply the Code ofConduct

3.    Oversee a staff of eightdirectors, officers, advisors, coordinators, and assistants

4.    Liaise with GPDs, Facultyassociate deans, Enrolment Services, Legal Counsel, the Ombuds Office, and theGraduate Students’ Association

5.    Chair the selection committeesfor Graduate Valedictorians, Governor General’s Gold Medal recipients, and DissertationAwards

6.    Policies and procedurespertaining to Post-doctoral faculty and researchers

 

· Graduate Program Director forthe Individualized Programs, SGS, 2012-13

 

PrincipalResponsibilities:

 

1.    Admissions and other studentaffairs-related issues for Masters and PhD students, graduate awards, and allgraduate curriculum revisions for the program

2.    Chair the INDI Graduate StudiesCommittee, which evaluates and ranks applications, and allocates fundingpackages

 

· Department Chair, Classics,Modern Languages and Linguistics, 2005-2012 (sabbatical 2008-09)

 

PrincipalResponsibilities:

 

1.    All pedagogical, curricular,personnel, and administrative matters for a large and diverse array of programs(1 MA, 4 major and 7 minor and certificate programs). With 35 FTF and 40 PTF,the department chair presides over the Department Tenure Committee, the DepartmentPersonnel Committee, and Part-time Hiring Committees for three different areas:Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Classics.

 

 

RESEARCH

 

ExternalFunding and Awards

 

2018-23          PrincipalInvestigator, Social Sciences andHumanities Research Council of Canada:“Estranged Epistemologies: Science and Culture in the Baroque and(Neo)Baroque.” ($50,000)

 

2018-19          Co-investigator,Global Affairs,Canada. “Development, Implementation andEvaluation of Capacity-Building Initiatives from the SOMEONE (Social MediaEducation Every Day) Initiative to Counter Terrorism and Violent Extremism withLebanese Stakeholders in Education, Public Policy and Social Service.” ($1.2M)

 

2017-19          Co-investigator,Ministry of Public Safety and EmergencyPreparedness. “Implementing Social Pedagogical Practices vie the SOMEONE(Social Media Every day) multimedia portal: Knowledge Mobilization and Transferof Evidence-Based Research into Communities, Scholastic, Popular Media andPublic Settings to Improve Resilience to Hate Speech and Radicalization that Leadsto Violent Extremism.” ($367,000)

 

2015-18          Co-applicant, The Research Council of Norway.“Integrating Science of Oceans, Physics and Education”: collaboration betweenresearchers from Bergen University, UC Berkeley, and Concordia University oninnovative pedagogies in science. (3,900,000 kroner; $610,000 CDN)

 

2011-15           Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchCouncil of Canada:

                        “Signsof the Times: Baroque Science Fiction” ($46,000)

 

2010                Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchCouncil of Canada Aid to

                        PublicationGrant ($8000)

 

2003-07           Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchCouncil of Canada: “Emblematic Moments in Literary Contexts: RitualStrategies and Myth Making in Golden Age Spain” ($33,500)

 

2003-07           Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Societéet la Culture : « Thèâtre Moderne, Restes Rituels: Le Rôle desPratiques Rituels dans ‘LaComedia Nueva’ » ($34,000)

 

1998                Program for Cultural Cooperation BetweenSpain’s Ministry of Culture and UnitedStates’ Universities ($1,850)

 

1991                National Endowment for the Humanities fellowshipfor summer workshop                                     onCamilo José Cela, Brigham Young University ($3,000)

 

1989                Fellowshipfor summer graduate study, SociedadEstatal del                                                           Quintocentenarioin collaboration with La fundación Ortegay Gasset and                                             TheUniversity of Minnesota Global Campus ($1,500)

 

1987                MinnesotaCoordinating Board for Higher Education ($5,000)

 

 

PublishedResearch

 

Monograph

 

The Persistence ofPresence: Emblem and Ritual in Baroque Spain.Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2010. Print.

 

Edited volumes

 

Science Fiction inCervantes. Cervantes:Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. 40.2 (2021).

 

Co-edited with David Castillo. Writingin the End Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World. Co-editedwith David Castillo. Hispanic IssuesOnline 43 (2019). https://cla.umn.edu/hispanic-issues/online/writing-end-times-apocalyptic-imagination-hispanic-world

 

Co-edited with Julio Baena. APolemical Companion to Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age ofInflationary Media, by David Castillo andWilliam Egginton. Hispanic Issues Debates8, 2017. https://cla.umn.edu/hispanic-issues/debates/volume-8-polemical-companion-medialogies

 

Co-edited with David Castillo. Spectatorshipand Topophilia in Early Modern and Postmodern Hispanic Cultures. HispanicIssues. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2011. Print.

 

Translation

 

When a Robot Decides to Dieand other stories. By Francisco García-González.Translation and Introduction by Bradley J. Nelson. Nashville: VanderbiltUniversity Press, 2021.

 

 

 

 

 

RefereedBook Chapters and Journal Articles

 

 

(submitted) “Aesthetics and the Staging ofSexual Violence in Cervantes and Lope.” ComediaPerformance, special number on Race, Gender, and Class. Ed. Erin Cowling,Esther Fernández, and Glenda Nieto-Cubas.

 

(submitted) “Grin and Bare It: Cormac McCarthyand Calderón de la Barca on the Aesthetics of Imperialism.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.

 

(forthcoming) Review of Cervantes:Displacements, Inflections and Transcendence by E. Michael Gerli. Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Societyof America.

 

(forthcoming) “From Irony to Collective Action: A ProgressiveReading of Reality Literacy.” A PolemicalCompanion to What Would Cervantes Do? by David Castillo and WilliamEgginton. Ed. Brian Phillips and Stephen Hessel. Hispanic Issues On-line Debates.

 

(forthcoming) “Art and Free Will in Early and Late Modernity: CaseStudies of Extreme (self) Manipulation and Resistance.” On Extremity: Sounds, Images, Words & Experiences. Ed. NelsonVaras-Díaz, Niall Scott, and Bryan Bardine. Lexington Press.

 

(in press) “The Persistence of Melancholy in Don Quixote and (post)Modernity: What Love Has to Do with It.” Essays in Honor of John J. Allen. Ed.Moisés Castillo. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2021.

 

“Introduction: Amy Williamsen and ScienceFiction: A Call to (Empathic) Action.” Special Cluster on Science Fiction inCervantes. Ed. B. Nelson. Cervantes:Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 40.2 (2021): 15-33.

 

 “Algorithmic Bias and thePastoral: Sexual Misrecognition in Light of Natural Knowledge.” Cluster on Science Fiction in Cervantes. Ed. B. Nelson. Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Societyof America 40.2 (2021): 73-93.

 

“Engaging Students on the #MeToo Movement: Framing Contemporary CrimeShows with Tirso and Zayas.” Tunes, TV, and Tweets: Teaching Early Modern Spanish LiteratureThrough Popular Culture, eds. Mindy Badía and Bonnie Gasior.Juan de la Cuesta, 2021: 87-105.

 

Nelson, B. J., & Venkatesh,V. “Manifestepour une pédagogie sociale par l’inclusivité réflexive. In D. Morin, S. Aounand S. Al-Baba Douaihy (eds.), Le nouvel âge des extrêmes? Lesdémocraties occidentales, la radicalisation et l’extrémisme violent.Montréal, Canada: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2021. 483-504.

 

Co-authored with Vivek Venkatesh and Jason Wallin. “NecrophilicEmpathy: An Urgent Reading of Miguel de Cervantes’s La Numancia.” Writing in theEnd of Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World. Ed. DavidCastillo and Brad Nelson. Hispanic IssuesOnline 23 (2019): 97-124.https://cla.umn.edu/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/hiol_23_05_nelson_venkatesh_and_wallin.pdf

 

Co-authored with David Castillo. “The Poetics and Politics ofApocalyptic and Dystopian Discourses.” Writingin the End of Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World. Ed.David Castillo and Brad Nelson. HispanicIssues Online 23 (2019): 97-124.1-15. https://cla.umn.edu/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/hiol_23_intro_castillo_and_nelson.pdf

 

“Religion and SexCrimes in Baroque Spain: The Avemariaas Alibi in His Wife’s Executioner,by María de Zayas.” Théologiques,Special Number on Praising and Cursing God ThroughMusic, ed. Éric Bellavance and Vivek Venkatesh. 26.1 (2018): 61-82.

 

“Free Will and Indeterminacy in Cervantes: From Molina toHeisenberg…and Beyond!” Cervantes37.2 (2017): 115-42.

 

Co-authored with JulioBaena. “Introduction: Reading Medialogies Reading Reality: Just Deserts.” A Polemical Companion to Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age ofInflationary Media, by David Castillo and William Egginton. Hispanic Issues Debates 8 (2017): 1-21.

 

“Calderón’s Aurora en Copacabana: A Scandalous Reading.” Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays inHonor of Donald T. Dietz. Ed. Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson.New York: Peter Lang, 2017. 217-30.

 

“Baroque Science Fiction: AProposal.” Revista Canadiense de EstudiosHispánicos. Special number Nuevasaproximaciones al canon hispánico de la temprana modernidad. Ed. RaquelTrilla and Ranka Minic-Vidovic. 41.1 (2016): 193-214.

 

Co-authored with VivekVenkatesh, Jason Wallin and Jeffrey Podoshen, et al. “Individual and communal factorsimpacting the spread and reception of online hate speech in the black metalscene: Theoretical and methodological implications.” In Metal Music and Community, ed. Nelson Varas and Niall WilliamRichard Scott. Lexington Press, 2016. 127-50.

 

“Poet or Pimp? Theatricality and Sex Crimes in Lope de Vega and Cervantes.” ¿Promete el autor segunda parte? Cuatrocientos años de una promesacervantina. Eds. Antonio Cortijo Ocaña and Francisco Layna Ranz. eHumanista Cervantes 4 (2015): 178-95.

 

“ThePerformance of Justice: Good-Natured Rule Breaking in Calderón’s El alcalde de Zalamea.” La razón de estado en las letras del Siglo de Oro. Ed. Enric Mallorquí-Ruscalleda. eHumanista 31 (2015):411-25.

 

 “Eventos ocasionales: La cienciamedia y la ficción en Los trabajos dePersiles y Sigismunda.” Comentarios aCervantes. Actasselectas del VIII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas. Ed.Emilio Martínez Mata and María Fernández Ferreiro. Asturias: Fundación MaríaCristina Masaveu Peterson, 2015. 1039-51.

 

“1581: Emblematics, Mathematics, and Melancholia.” Emblematica: AnInterdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies 21 (2014): 135-60.

 

“Elmachismo y la identidad gay en Noche deRonda.” Identidad y Diáspora: El Teatro de Pedro R. Monge Rafuls. Ed. Elena M.Martínez and Francisco Soto. Valencia: Aduana Vieja, 2014. 285-302.[Abridged reprint and translation of “Pedro Monge-Rafuls and Mapping thePost?Modern Subject in Latino Theater.” Gestos:Teoría y Práctica del Teatro Hispánico 24 (1997): 135-48.]

 

“Knowledge, Fiction, and the Other in Cervantes’s La Gitanilla.” Romance Quarterly (special issue on Cervantes’s Novelas Ejemplares. Ed. Moisés R.Castillo) 61.2 (2014): 125-37.

 

“Zayas Unchained: A Perverse God or Theological Kitsch?” Writing Monsters: Essays on Iberian and Latin AmericanCultures. Eds. Adriana Gordillo and Nicholas Spadaccini. HispanicIssues Online 15 (2014): 42-59.

 

“Perverse Currency.” (Re)Reading Graciánin a Self-Made World. Hispanic Issues On Line Debates 4 (Fall 2012): 35–41.

 

“Afterword.” Poiesis andModernity in the Old and New Worlds. Eds. Anthony J. Cascardi and LeahMiddlebrook. Nashville: U of Vanderbilt P, 2012. 291-302.

 

Co-authored with David R. Castillo “Introduction: Modern Scenes /Modern Sceneries.” Spectacle andTopophilia: Reading Early Modern and Postmodern Hispanic Cultures. Eds. B.Nelson and D. Castillo. Nashville: U of Vanderbilt P, December, 2011. ix-xxx.

 

“Signs of the Times: Emblems of Baroque Science Fiction.” Spectatorship and Topophilia in Early Modernand Postmodern Hispanic Cultures. Eds. B. Nelson and D. Castillo. HispanicIssues. Nashville: U of Vanderbilt P, December, 2011. 65-90.

 

“The Aesthetics ofRape, and the Rape of Aesthetics.” Hispanic Literatures and the Question ofa Liberal Education. Ed. Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini.Hispanic Issues Online 8 (Fall 2011): 62–80.

 

 “The Gift of Art and OtherTrojan Horses of Modernity: Calderón’s Laaurora en Copacabana.” La violencia en el mundo hispánico en elSiglo de Oro. Eds. JuanManuel Escudero and Victoriano Roncero. Biblioteca Filológico Hispana 117.Madrid: Visor, 2010. 151-63.

 

“Philology and the Emblem.”Recovering Philology. Philology and ItsHistories. Ed. Sean Gurd. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press,2010. 107-26.

 

Co-authored with Nadia Altschul “Philology and Transatlantic Disconnections.”Estudios hispánicos: Perspectivasinternacionales. Eds. LuisMartín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini. Hispanic Issues On-Line 2 (2007): 55-64.

 

“Sor Juana’s Neptuno alegórico:An Inquiry into Baroque Strategies of Hegemonic Redemption and Dissolution.” Crosscurrents: Transatlantic Approaches toEarly Modern Spanish and Spanish-American Theater. Ed. Mindy Badía andBonnie Gasior. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2006. 104-23.

 

“Tasteful Machinery: Baltasar Gracián and the Organized Body ofTaste.” Reason and Its Others in EarlyModern Times (Spain/Italy 1500s-1700s). Ed. David R. Castillo and MassimoLollini. Hispanic Issues. Nashville:Vanderbilt UP, 2006. 79-100.

           

“Capes and Swords: Teaching the Theatricality of Golden Age poetry.”Caliope (special issue on teaching poetry,in honor of Elias Rivers. Ed. Edward Friedman) 11.2 (2005): 111-24.

 

“From Hieroglyphic Presence to Emblematic Sign: the RitualMotivation of Bias in the Auto Sacramental.” Hispanic Baroques: Reading Cultures in Context. Ed. NicholasSpadaccini and Luis Martín-Estudillo. HispanicIssues 31. Nashville: Vanderbilt U P: 2005. 107-36.

 

“Icons of Honor: Cervantes, Lope, and the Staging of Blind Faith.”“Special Number on Cervantes’s Theater and Theatricality in Cervantes.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 56.2 (2004):413-442.

 

“Lostrabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda: Una crítica cervantina de la alegoresisemblemática.” Cervantes 24.2 (2004): 43-69.

 

“The Marriage of Art and Honor: Anamorphosis and Control inCalderón’s La dama duende.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 54.2 (2002):407-42.

 

“Emblematic Representation and Guided Culture in Baroque Spain: Juande Horozco y Covarrubias.”  Culture and the State in Spain: 1550-1850.Ed. Tom Lewis and Francisco Sánchez. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1999. 157-95.

 

“El Alcalde de Zalamea:Pedro Crespo’s Marvelous Game of Emblematic Wit.”  Bulletinof the Comediantes 50, No. 1 (1998): 35-57.

 

“Dialogism and the Sonnet: Silence, Reading and the Ethics ofKnowledge in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.” Romance Languages Annual X(1998): 744-50.

 

Co-authored with Moisés Castillo “The Political-theological Programof Antonio Vieira in the Context of Baroque Guided Culture.” Romance Languages Annual IX (1998):429-37.

 

“Pedro Monge-Rafuls and Mapping the Post?modern Subject in LatinoTheater.” GESTOS: Teoría y Práctica del Teatro Hispánico  24(1997): 135-48.

 

“Gongora's Soledades: Portrait of the Subject.” Romance Languages Annual VIII(1996): 608-14.

 

“Juridical Deterritorialization and Institutional Power Struggles inthe Discovery of America.” Romance Languages Annual VII (1995): 566-72.

 

Publications in Acts or Conference proceedings

 

“LaAurora en Iwo Jima: Calderón, Eastwood y los límites del imperialismoespectacular.” Córdoba: Cauce decivilizaciones: Las Actas del XXVIII Asamblea General de ALDEEU, celebrado enCórdoba en julio de 2008. Ed. Juan Fernández Jiménez and Guadalupe R.Alvear Madrid. Erie, PA: ALDEEU, 2011. 149-58.

 

“El Neptunoalegórico de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: una investigación de lasestrategias barrocas de redención y disolución hegemónicas.” Las Actas de la XXIII Asamblea General deALDEEU, celebrada en Jaén en julio de 2003. Ed. Juan Fernández Jiménez,Jesús López-Peláez Casellas y Encarnación Medina Arjona. Jaén, Spain:Universidad de Jaén, 2006. 193-200.

 

“El consumo de ficciones deliciosas: Unacrítica del mercado cultural en María de Zayas.” Congreso abierto: Publicación en la red de las actas del 42 Congreso dela ACH, 2006.

 

“La emblemática como marco teórico-críticoen los estudios trans-atlánticos.” Congresoabierto: Publicación en la red de las actas del 40 Congreso de la ACH, 2004.

 

Book reviews

 

Marr, Alexander, Raphaël Garrod, José Ramón Marcaida, and Richard J.Oosterhoff. Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in EarlyModern Europe. Pittsburgh: UPittsburgh P, 2019. Caliope: Journalof the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. 25.2 (2020):256-60.

 

García González, Francisco. Asesino en serio. La Santa Crítica, July 25, 2019. http://lasantacritica.com/lo-que-trajo-el-cartero/francisco-garcia-gonzalez-asesino-en-serio/

 

García Santo-Tomás, Enrique. La musa refractada. Literatura y óptica enla España del Barroco. Madrid; Frankfurt: Iberoamericana; Vervuert, 2015. MLN 131.2 (2016): 553-55.

 

Simerka, Barbara. Knowing Subjects: Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern SpanishLiterature. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2013. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 92.8 (2015): 843-45.

 

Mayers, Kathryn M. Visions of Empire in Colonial Spanish American Ekphrastic Writing.Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2012. Caliope:Journal for the Society of Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry 19.1(2014): 226-28.

 

Beusterien, John. Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez: An Animal Studies Reading of EarlyModern Spain. London: Ashgate, 2013. Bulletinof Hispanic Studies 91.6 (2014): 680-81.

 

Schmidt, Rachel. Forms of Modernity: Don Quixoteand Modern Theories of the Novel. Toronto: U Toronto P, 2011. La revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos37.2 (2013): 413-16.

 

Vivar, Francisco. La Numancia de Cervantes y lamemoria de un mito. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2004.Bulletin of the Comediantes 60.1(2008): 153-54.

 

Cañadas, Ivan. Public Theaterin Golden Age Madrid and Tudor-Stuart London. Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2005.Journal of British Studies, IncorporatingAlbion 46 (January 2007): 169-70.

 

Garcés, María Antonia. Cervantesin Algiers: A Captive’s Tale. ComparativeLiterature Studies 43.4 (2006): 544-48.

 

Egginton, William. How theWorld Became a Stage. MLN: Modern Language Notes 118.5 (2003): 1327-29.

 

Jara, René. Los pliegues del silencio. Narrativa en el fin del milenio. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana48(1998): 251-53.

 

Policy publications

 

“We Need an Outcomes-Based Approach toDoctoral Education.” University AffairsFebruary 16, 2021. https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/we-need-an-outcomes-based-approach-to-doctoral-education/

 

Conference presentations

 

 

July, 2021 “Aesthetics and the Staging ofSexual Violence in Cervantes and Lope.” Associationof Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Conference.

 

April, 2021 “The Persistence of Melancholyin Don Quixote: What Love Has to Dowith It.” Kentucky Foreign LanguageConference (remotely on Zoom).

 

April, 2021 “An Outcomes-Based Approach toPhD Programs.” Annual Meeting of the NortheasternAssociation of Graduate Schools (remotely on Zoom).

 

January, 2021 “The Persistence ofMelancholy in Don Quixote: Now What?”Modern Language Association (remotelyon Zoom).

 

October, 2020 “Francisco García Gonzálezand the Myth of the Endless Revolution.” VIInternational Conference on Myth Criticism: Myth and Science Fiction,Madrid (held remotely on Zoom).

 

February, 2020  “Engaging Studentson the #MeToo Movement: Framing Contemporary Crime Shows with Tirso and Zayas.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

 

(By invitation)February, 2020 “Cervantesand Science: Where Fiction and Middle Science Joust in Early Modernity.” Symposium in honor of John Jay Allen.University of Kentucky.

 

October, 2019 “Sor Juana’sPrimero Sueño as a Critique of Scholastic Utopianism; or Early         Modern Science Fiction and Its Limits.”Society for Renaissance and BaroquePoetry.            Irvine, CA.

 

February, 2019 “Religion and Sex Crimes in Baroque Spain: The Avemaria as Alibi in His Wife’s Executioner, by María deZayas.” Arizona Center for Medieval and RenaissanceStudies.

 

(By invitation) January, 2019 “Doing‘Relevance’: Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives.” Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL.

 

September, 2018 “Neoliberalism and Social Necrophilia: A RecentAdaptation of Cervantes’s La Numancia.” 2018 North American Cervantes Society of AmericaConference, Calgary, Alberta.

 

July, 2018 “Supporting InternationalStudent Enrollment.” Council of GraduateSchools, Chicago, IL.

 

April, 2018 “Breaking Silos: Knowledge Mobilization andPublic Engagement in a World of Alternative Facts, Climate Change Skeptics, andMedia Information Bubbles.” Northeastern Association of Graduate School,Montreal.

 

(By invitation) February, 2108 “CognitiveApproaches to Cultural Studies: Problems in Empathy.” Concordia Centre forCognitive Science.

 

February, 2018 “Emblem Books and Medialogies: ScientificObfuscation in the First Age of Inflationary Media.” The 24th Annual Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Scottsdale, AZ.

 

November, 2017 With VivekVenkatesh, “Necrophilic Empathy in Cervantes’ La Numancia.”ApocalypticImagination in Early Modern Spain, ConcordiaUniversity, Montreal.

 

October, 2017 “Poetry and Necrophilia:Reading Cervantes’s La Numanciathrough Anachronism.” Society forRenaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Sevilla, Spain.

 

(by invitation) October, 2017 “EmblemBooks and Medialogies: Scientific Obfuscation in the First Age of InflationaryMedia.” Transforming Books, McGillUniversity.

 

June, 2017 With Amy Williamsen “Entreficción y ciencia: Hacia una lectura cuántica del Persiles.” Cervantes en elSeptentrión: Tromso, Norway.

 

(By invitation) April, 2017 “MasterPrograms: Two Architectural Models.” NortheasternAssociation of Graduate Schools, New York, NY.

 

(By invitation) March, 2017 “Trends in InterdisciplinaryGraduate Education.” Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Education,Concordia University.

 

(By invitation) February, 2017 “TheTheology of/and Sex Crimes in María de Zayas.” California State University,Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

 

(By invitation) November, 2016 “ACervantine Approach to Science Fiction.” Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University,Nashville, TN.

 

(By invitation) November, 2016 “BaroqueScience Fiction: A Cervantine Proposal.” York University, Toronto, ON.

 

October, 2016 “The Theology of SexualViolence in María de Zayas.” Gemela(Estudios sobre la mujer en España y Latinoamérica), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

(By invitation) January, 2016 “Grimposium,West Side Gory: Panel discussion on sexual violence and misogyny in the BlackMetal Music Scene featuring musicians, journalists, and academics,” aQuariusrecOrds, San Francisco, CA. https://vimeo.com/153526590

 

(By invitation) January, 2016 “Grimposium,West Side Gory: Improvisational Reading on Sexual Violence and Misogyny,”aQuarius recOrds, San Francisco, CA. https://vimeo.com/153606805

 

October, 2015 “Poet or Pimp? Theatricalityand Sex Crimes in Lope de Vega and Cervantes.” “Quixotic Disciplines,” a seminarorganized by Jesús Velasco, at Columbia University, New York, New York.

 

October, 2015 “Best Practices in IndustryPartnerships.” Canadian Association ofPostdoctoral Administrators, University of Calgary.

 

September, 2015 In collaboration withVivek Venkatesh: “Spectacles of hate speech: Anexemplary approach to transgressions in black metal.” From My Cold Dead Hand: Cervantes and the Public Humanities in theTwenty-first Century, a Pointed Conversation, Concordia University,Montreal.

 

July, 2015 “The Theatrical Representationof Sex Crimes in Lope de Vega and Cervantes.” ALDEEU, Segovia, Spain.

 

(Invited Keynote Address) March 2015“Quantum Solace: Apocalyptic Accommodations in Early and Late Modernity.”Graduate Student Symposium at SUNY Buffalo, Department of Romance Languages.

 

March 2015 “The Performance of Justice inCalderón’s El alcalde de Zalamea.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theater,El Paso, TX.

 

April, 2014 “Knowledge,Fiction, and the Other in Cervantes’s LaGitanilla.” The Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington, KY.

 

April, 2014 “1581: Mathematics, Emblematics, and Melancholia.” The Renaissance Society ofAmerica, New York, NY.

 

April 2013 “Theatrical Emblems and theEmbodiment of Time: The Case of Occasion.”The Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference,Lexington, KY.

 

April 2013 “A Quantum Approach to Don Quijote.” The Renaissance Society of America, San Diego, CA.

 

November 2012 “1581: Mathematics,Emblematics, and Melancholia.” EarlyModern Projects Research Group. Concordia University. Montreal, QC.

 

(by invitation) June 2012 “La ciencia y elsueño en Calderón.” Ometeca: XII Sesiónde trabajo sobre las relaciones entre las humanidades y las ciencias en elmundo hispánico, Madrid, Spain.

 

June, 2012 “La ciencia y la ficción: Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda.” VIII Congreso Internacion de la Asociaciónde Cervantistas, Oviedo, Spain.

 

April, 2012 “Cervantes, Gracián, and theEmbodied Subject.” Kentucky ForeignLanguage Conference, Lexington, KY.

 

March, 2012 “Free Will and Theatricality:Calderón’s La vida es sueño.” Association of HispanicClassical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

March, 2011 “Dressing for the Occasion:Cervantes and the Virgin Mary.” Associationof Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

May, 2010 “Signs of the Times: Emblems ofBaroque Science Fiction.” AsociaciónCanadiense de Hispanistas, Concordia University, Montreal, QC.

 

April, 2010 “The Writer Who Played with Fire: A Millenial Approachto María de Zayas.” Northeast ModernLanguage Association, Montreal, QC.

 

March, 2009 “Suzerains of the Earth: The Dramatization of ColonialEncounters.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

July, 2008 “El don del arte y otrosregalos griegos de la modernidad.” ALDEEU, Córdoba, Spain.

 

June, 2008 “The Gift of Art and other Trojan Horses of Modernity: Laaurora en Copacabana.” Violence in GoldenAge Theatre, sponsored by the HispanicBaroque Project, Stratford, ON.

 

(by invitation) March, 2008  Materialismo cultural y la inscripción de laautoría en María de Zayas.” Centro deRecursos del Español, Université de Montreal. Montreal, QC.

 

(by invitation) February, 2008 “SpectatorSpots in Marginal Spaces: The Replication of Identity in Calderón’s La Aurora en Copacabana.” McGill University. Montreal, QC.

 

March, 2007 “Philological Performances: Pedro Crespo as LiterarySubject.” Association of HispanicClassical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

November, 2006  “From Presence to Transcendence: Golden Age Philology and the Resistanceto Theory.” Recovering Philology. Philology and Its Histories, an international symposium sponsored by SSHRC andConcordia University. Montreal, QC.

 

May, 2006 “El consumo de ficcionesdeliciosas: Una crítica del mercado cultural en María de Zayas.” XLII Congreso de la Asociación Canadiense deHispanistas. York University, Toronto.

 

November, 2005 “Las semillas del colonialismo: una figuraevangélica, desde Cortés a Lope de Vega.” SpanishProgram Lecture Series, 2005-06. Concordia University. Montreal, QC.

 

July, 2005 “La otredad de la violenciaestatal en Lope de Vega y Miguel de Cervantes.” XXIII Asamblea Generalde ALDEEU, celebrada en Burgos, July 2005. Burgos, Spain.

 

May, 2005 “Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda: Ocasión y fortuna en la frontera.” XLI Congreso Asociación Canadiense deHispanistas.London, Ontario.

 

May, 2005 “Cervantes in theBoondocks: The Morisco as Witness for thePersecution.” Dis/locac/tión: WRITING EXILE/MIGRANCY /NOMADISM/BORDERCROSSING. Concordia University. Montreal, QC.

 

(by invitation) April, 2005  “TheEnd of an American Story: Lope de Vega’s Emblems of indios.” North East ModernLanguage Association, Boston-Cambridge, MA.

 

March, 2005 “Percepción y cegueraimperiales: visiones teatrales y novelescas de Lope de Vega y Miguel deCervantes.” Concordia University. Montreal, QC.

 

March, 2005 “Blindness and Imperial Insight in Lope and Cervantes.” Associationof Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

May, 2004 “La emblemática como marcoteórico-crítico en los estudios trans-atlánticos.” Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

 

October, 2003 “Icons of Honor: CompetingTheories of Icons and Images in Cervantes’s Elretablo de la maravillas.” Mid-America Conference of Hispanic Literatures. Boulder, CO.

 

October, 2003 “A Dog’s Eye View of Human Desire or, Baroque Love’s aBitch: Miguel de Cervantes meets Alejandro González Iñárritu.” CMLL Interdisciplinary Film Conference,Concordia University. Montreal, QC.

 

(by invitation) September,2003 “The Ritual Motivation of Bias: Emblems and the Other in the Auto Sacramental.” Freedom and Containment: Symposium on Baroque Literature and Culture.University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN.

 

July, 2003 “‘El Neptuno alegórico’ de SorJuana Inés de la Cruz: La alegoresis emblemática versus le performance de la interpretación historiográfica.” ALDEEU. Universidad de Jaén, Spain.

 

May, 2003 “Teatralidad y alegoría en el Neptuno Alegórico de Sor Juana Inés dela Cruz.” XXXIX Congreso de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas.Halifax, Nova Scotia.

 

(by invitation) March, 2003 “Sor Juana’s Neptuno alegórico: An Inquiry into Baroque Strategies of HegemonicRedemption and Dissolution.” Associationof Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

September, 2002 “Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda: Una crítica cervantina de laalegoresis emblemática.” VI Congreso Internacional de Emblemática.The Society for Emblem Studies, La Coruña, Spain.

 

March, 2002 “The AutoSacramental and the Fabrication of Hypostasis: Calderón’s El gran mercado del mundo in Light ofEmblematic Aesthetics.” Association ofHispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.

 

April, 2001 “Juan de Borja’s Empresasmorales: Meditative Confusion, Emblematics, and Ideology.” University of Kentucky Foreign LanguageConference. Lexington, KY.

 

March, 2001 “The Marriage of Art and Honor: Anamorphosis and Controlin Calderón’s La dama duende.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theater,El Paso, TX.

 

April, 2000 “Cervantes’s Materialist Aesthetics: Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda.” University of Kentucky Foreign LanguageConference. Lexington, KY.

 

April, 1999 “El arte nuevo de hacer emblemas: The Repositioning ofItalian Hieroglyphic and Emblematic Discourse in Counter Reformation Spain.” American Association for Italian StudiesConference Symposium. University of Oregon. Eugene, OR.

 

November, 1998 “The New Art of Making Emblems: The Creation ofVirtual Communities, Past and Present.” GraduateDoctoral Dissertation Fellows Symposium Series. University of Minnesota.Minneapolis, MN.

 

October, 1998 “Dialogism and the Sonnet: Silence and the Ethics ofKnowledge in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.” PurdueConference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film. Purdue University.West Lafayette, IN.

 

(by invitation) April, 1997  “RoundTable Discussion.” The State of the U. S.Latino Theater: Mexican-American, Cuban-American, Puerto Rican, and OtherHispanic Voices of the Diaspora. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN.

 

October, 1997 (with Moisés Castillo) “The Theological-politicalProgram of Antonio Vieira in the Context of Baroque Guided Culture.” Purdue Conference on Romance Languages,Literatures and Film. Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN.

 

February, 1997 (with Moisés Castillo) “The Oblique Gaze in Don Quixote: an Example of the Burla inPastoral Love.” LA CHISPA. TulaneUniversity. New Orleans, LA.

 

November, 1996 (with Moisés Castillo) “The Oblique Gaze in Don Quixote: A Study of the ‘burla’ inMaritornesque and Pastoral Love.”1996MMLA Conference Symposium. Minneapolis, MN.

 

October, 1996 “Gongora’s Soledades:Portrait of the Subject.” PurdueConference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film. Purdue University.West Lafayette, IN.

 

January, 1996 “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Towards an Understandingof the Subject of Representation in the Baroque.” Works in Progress Lecture Series. Department of Spanish andPortuguese, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN.

 

October, 1995 “Juridical Deterritorialization and InstitutionalPower Struggles in the Discovery of America.” Purdue Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film. PurdueUniversity. West Lafayette, IN.

 

October, 1995 “El Imbunche: Sewing-up the Holes in Time in JoséDonoso’s El obsceno pájaro de la noche.”The Anthropology of Change. AnInterdisciplinary Conference. Stanford University. Stanford, CA.

 

 

Conferences/SymposiaOrganized

 

2018                “Learningto Hate: Pluralism in an Era of Echo Chambers.” Concordia University’s InterdisciplinarySummer Institute. Week-long graduate seminar for graduate students. Co-curatedwith Vivek Venkatesh.

                        https://www.concordia.ca/sgs/summer-institute/2018.html

 

2017                “ApocalypticImagination in Early Modern Spain.” Shifra Armon, Fulbright Canada ResearchChair, Jennifer Faucher, PhD student at Concordia, Brad Nelson and VivekVenkatesh, Concordia University. http://www.concordia.ca/cuevents/artsci/cmll/2017/11/14/apocalyptic-imagination-early-modern-spain-nelson-faucher-venkatesh-armon.html?c=artsci/cmll

 

2015                “From MyCold Dead Hand: Cervantes and the Public Humanities in the Twenty-First Century,”a one-day symposium with Julio Baena (U Colorado), David R. Castillo (SUNYBuffalo), Moisés Castillo (U Kentucky), William Egginton (Johns Hopkins U), andVivek Venkatesh (Concordia U). Concordia University, September, 2015. https://vimeo.com/154887208

 

2015                Dr. Amy Williamsen, University of North Carolina, Greensborough,“Critical                    Complications:Engendering Empathy in Cervantes.” Concordia University, 2015.

 

2015                Dr. Edward Friedman, VanderbiltUniversity, “Forever Young? Don Quixote at                             400 Years.”Concordia University, 2014.

 

2014                Dr. LauraVidler, US Military Academy, “ThePoetics of Performance Reconstruction: Reviving and Revising the Comedia.”Concordia University, 2014. https://vimeo.com/92089350

 

2014                Dr. BruceBurningham, Illinois State University, “Performance Cognition and the OralTradition.” Concordia University, 2014. https://vimeo.com/86838233

 

2013                Dr.Maria Fionda, University of Mississippi, “Executive Function and Second

LanguageProcessing of Morphosyntax.” Concordia University, 2013. https://vimeo.com/84967688

 

2011                Dr.William Childers, Brooklyn College at the CUNY Graduate Center, “The

                        Moriscosand ‘Race’—Exploring the Roots of Modern Racism in Sixteenth-

                        CenturySpain.” Concordia University, 2012.

 

2004                Dr. CarmenMoreno-Nuño, Wesleyan University, “The Spanish War: Traces of Trauma.” ConcordiaUniversity, 2003.

 

2004                Dr. MoisésR. Castillo, Trinity College, “Indios en escena: La representación del amerindio en el teatro delSiglo de Oro.” Concordia University, 2003.

 

2001                David R.Castillo, SUNY Buffalo, “Jews, Bastards, Usual Suspects, Social Symptoms:Cervantes’ Retablo and Zizek’s Theoryof Ideology.” Concordia University, 2002.

 

 

Graduate Supervision

 

2018                MAThesis Committee, Lisa Vanden Berghe, Concordia U (History). The Needles Excellency: John Taylor inPerspective.

2016-              PhD Thesis Supervisor, Jennifer Faucher, Concordia U.“The Picaresque and Promoting Being.”

2016                PhDThesis Committee, Abelardo León, Concordia U. “Social Change and SexualDiversity in Times of Emerging Neoliberalism in Chile.”

2015                MA ThesisSupervisor, James Buchanan, Concordia U. “La representación del moro en Las Cantigas de Santa María de Alfonso X,El Sabio: un precursor a la “maurofilia” de Historia del Abencerraje y lahermosa Jarifa.”

 

2013                PhD ThesisCommittee, Philomène Longpré, Concordia U “Matrix of Sensations: A MultisensoryApproach to Responsive Video Membranes.”

 

2010                MA Thesis External Examiner, Martine Gagnon,Concordia U. “Golden Age Spain Wearing English Clothes:James Mabbe, Renaissance Translator of Spanish Prose Literature.”

 

2009                PhD External Examiner, Susana Artal, Laval University.“Francisco de Quevedo y François Rabelais : Imágenesdeshumanizantes y representación literaria del cuerpo.”

 

Honours Supervision

 

2010/2 La representación del otro en Las Cantigasde Alfonso X, James Buchanan

 

2007/4 Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda,Raquel Dulevich

 

2007/4 Sor Juana’s Los empeños de una casa,Yazmet Madariaga

 

2007/4 El carnaval en Cervantes, GiovannaGarcía

 

2007/4 Lazarillo de Tormes, Marilou Bolduc

 

2006/2 La pícara Justina, Jennifer Faucher

 

2006/2 El Inca Garcilaso, Pablo Salinas

 

2002/2 FromDesengaño to Romanticism: A Study of Don Juan, Sharon Richards

 

2002/2 Cervantesand the Subject of Desire, Maria Fionda

 

2002/4 Dialogism, Language andIdeologies of National Identity, Spain 1492-1945, Giuliano Muñoz

 

TEACHING

 

Concordia University (2000-present)

 

2017-18           SPAN310                   Conquest and Empire: Spanish Literature fromthe 12th to                                                              the17th Centuries

 

2016-17           SPAN411                   Freedom and Containment in Spanish Golden Age Prose

 

2014-15           SPAN498-                 Don Quijote

ENGL 398                  Don Quixote

 

2013-14           SPAN406/643            Cognitive Approaches to Spanish Medieval Lit.

 

2012-13           SPAN412                   Spanish Golden Age Poetry and Theater

 

2011-12           SPAN411                   Freedom and Containment in Golden Age Prose

                        SPAN642                   Topics in Critical Thinking and Theory: Baroque Science                                                                Fiction

 

2010-11           SPAN601                   Research Methods and Discourse Analysis

                        SPAN 498-

                        ENGL398                  Don Quijote

 

2009-10           SPAN310/2                Survey of Spanish Literature I

                        SPAN 406/2                From Orality to Literacy in Medieval Iberia

 

2007-08           SPAN310/2 A            Survey of Spanish Literature I

                        SPAN411/4 AA         Golden Age Prose

 

2006-2007       SPAN303/2 AA         Intro. to Critical Reading                  

                        SPAN498/4 –

                        ENGL398/4 AA        Imperial Fictions: Don Quijote

 

2005-2006       SPAN472/2 AA         Colonial Writing

                        SPAN 406/4 AA         Medieval Literature

                       

2004-2005       SPAN303/2/AA         Intro.to Critical Reading                  

                        SPAN320/2/A             Survey of Hisp-American Lit 1          

                        SPAN412/4/AA         GoldenAge Poetry and Theater        

                        SPAN303/4/A            Intro.to Critical Reading                  

 

2003-2004       SPAN310/2/AA         Surveyof Spanish Literature I           

                        SPAN498N/4/AA      TransatlanticTheater                        

                        SPAN411/4/AA         GoldenAge Prose                              

                        *Courseremission due to FQRSC award

 

2002-2003       SPAN310/2/AA         Surveyof Spanish Literature I           

                        SPAN310/2/A            Surveyof Spanish Literature I           

                        SPAN498                   Pedagogical Approaches                   

                        SPAN461/4/AA         Historyof Spanish Language            

                        SPAN406/4/AA         MedievalLiterature                           

 

2001-2002       SPAN310/2/A            Surveyof Spanish Literature I                                                                       SPAN365/2/A            Intro. SpanishCulture and Civ.       

                        SPAN412/4/AA         GoldenAge Poetry and Theater        

                        SPAN461/4/A            Historyof Spanish Language            

 

2000-2001       SPAN310/2/A            Surveyof Spanish Literature I           

                        SPAN411/2/AA         GoldenAge Prose                              

                        SPAN311/4/A            Surveyof Spanish Literature II         

                        SPAN461/4/A            Historyof Spanish Language

 

 

SERVICE     

 

ExternalAcademic Service

 

· Executive Committee(affiliate), Council of Graduate Schools(2018-19)

 

· President, Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (2017-18)

 

· Executive Committee, Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools(2013-)

 

· Evaluator of manuscripts forUniversity of North Carolina Press (2016-)

 

· Evaluator of manuscripts forUniversity of Toronto Press (2014-)

 

· Member/Evaluator on thePublications Committee for SSHRC’s Awardsto Scholarly Publications Program, as an expert in Hispanic Studies (2013-)

 

The primaryresponsibility of this committee is to assess publication grants for theawarding of ASPP funds. On occasion, members also suggest appropriate externalreviewers for submitted manuscripts and recommend scholars as potential membersof the Publications Committee.

 

· Member of the editorial boardfor Hispanic Issues (2005- ) and The Bulletin of the Comediantes (2009- ).

 

· External reviewer for promotionto full professor: United States Military Academy.

 

· External reviewer for promotionto tenure: Kansas State University; Portland State University; University ofMelbourne; Syracuse University

 

· Responsable de domain for 80^thCongress of ACFAS, 2012.

 

·  Submissions evaluator for Cervantes,Renaissance Quarterly, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos,Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Modern Philology, Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies, Publicationsfor the Modern Language Association, Revistade Estudios Hispánicos, Théologiques,Journal of Cultural Economy, and RethinkingMarxism.

 

· Research Grant Assessor for SSHRC, 2004-.

 

· Assistant Editor, Bulletin of the Comediantes, 2002-09.

 

· Assistant Editor, Hispanic Issues, 1998-2002.

 

OtherInternal Service Activities

 

· University Academic PlanningCommittee, 2010-12

 

· University Senate, 2010-12

 

· Faculty of Arts and ScienceSteering Committee for Faculty Council, 2007-12.

 

· Department Representative onFaculty of Arts and Science Faculty Council, 2005-12.

 

· Advisory Search Committee forthe Principal of the School of CanadianIrish Studies, 2009.

 

· Member of the Advisory Boardfor Concordia Centre for the InterdisciplinaryStudy of Society and Culture (CISSC), 2007-09.

 

· Adhoc Committee on the Futureof the Department of Education, 2007.

 

· Advisory Search Committee forthe Director of the Concordia Centre for theInterdisciplinary Study of Society and Culture, 2006-07.

 

· Facilitating Alliances, Partnerships and Internationalization: Strategic Planning Committee, 2006-07.

 

· CMLL Department CurriculumCommittee (Chair), 2004-05.

 

· CMLL Academic PlanningCommittee, 2003-04.

 

· CMLL Self Appraisal Committee,2002-03.

 

· Implementation Committee forthe Concordia Centre for the Humanities,2002-03 (CISSC).

 

· Department Hiring Committee forSpanish, 2000-03.

 

· Curriculum Committee forSpanish Section, 2000-05.

 

· Graduate Student Representativeto Candidate Search Committee, 1994-96, U Minnesota.

 

· Representative to the Councilof Graduate Students, 1996-97, U Minnesota.

 

· Graduate Student Representativeto the Faculty, 1994-95.

 

CommunityInvolvement

 

· Volunteer Coach for Notre Damede Grace Minor Hockey Association, 2005-16.