Tribute to Mary M. Gaylord

Date and Time

May 4 - May 5, 2018
01:30PM - 06:00PM EDT

Location

26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA

 

Program of the Tribute to

Mary M. Gaylord 

Sosland Family Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

 

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FRIDAY, MAY 4

1:30-2:00 p.m.

Opening reception

2:00-3:30 p.m.

1st Panel: Cervantes

Charles D. Presberg, University of Missouri: “Cervantes and the Art of Madness”

Obed Lira, Bucknell University: “Don Quixote and the Spectres of Colonial Violence”

      Dian Fox, Brandeis University: “The Sons of King Sebastian

 

             4:00-5:30 p.m.

            2nd Panel: Colonial I

Glen Carman, DePaul University: “Erasmus, Sepúlveda, and the ‘Turkish Threat’”

Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia: “From Transatlantic to Transpacific”

Fátima Monteiro, EMAC-Macaronesia Institute and CLEPUL-FLUL, University of Lisbon: “A ilhas da Macaronésia—Açores, Madeira, Canárias e Cabo Verde— e o processo de globalização”

 

SATURDAY, MAY 5

8:00-9:00 a.m.

Breakfast 

9:00-10:30 a.m.

3rd Panel: Colonial II

Karina Galperin, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella: “La cueva de Fitón: guerra y república de las letras en La Araucana de Ercilla”

Ernesto Guerra, Roxbury Latin: “From Ercilla’s La Araucana to children’s literature and back”

Nicole Legnani, Princeton University: “Fabulous Fabulists: Batty Sisterhood in Sor Juana’s Primero sueño

Francisco Ramírez Santacruz, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla: “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y su retrato de artista”

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

4th Panel: Voices

Gabriela Basterra, New York University: “The Other’s Voice”

Simone Pinet, Cornell University: “On Debt(s)”

Felipe Valencia, Utah State University: Voiceful Apollo and voiceless Daphne: The Poetics of Melancholy and Masculinist Lyric in Garcilaso’s sonnet XIII”

Antonio Arraiza Rivera, Wellesley College: “‘Un papagayo os dejaré, señora’: voices and verses displaced in a Góngora sonnet”

12:30-2:00 p.m.

Lunch 

2:00-3:45 p.m.

5th Panel: Translationes

Gabriela Carrión, Regis University: “Translating the Renaissance: Antonio de Guevara”

José Cartagena-Calderón, Pomona College: Carne divina: San Sebastián en el imaginario homoerótico hispano”

Michael Armstrong-Roche, Wesleyan University: “Master Mistresses on the 17th-Century Spanish and English Stage: Actresses, Boy Actors, and the Proto-History of Screwball Comedy”

Laura Bass, Brown University: “‘Hijos de Madrid:’ Literature and Local Belonging in the Seventeenth-Century Court Capital”

Elizabeth Rhodes, Boston College: “What Glasses are you Wearing When You Read Early Modern Texts?”

4:15-5:15 p.m.

Closing

Final remarks by Mary M. Gaylord

Sponsors: RCC; Department of Roman Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.