Margaret Rich Greer
Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies
Spanish Early Modern Literature and Culture, Women Writers, Text Editing
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014
Contact Information
- 35 Dolores Street, Apt. 401, San Francisco, CA 94103
- Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
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mgreer@duke.edu
(415) 913-7171
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http://www.duke.edu/~mgreer
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin 1983
- M.A., University of Texas, Austin 1966
- B.A., Tufts University 1963
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2001 - 2014
- Professor of Theater Studies, Theater Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2014
- Director, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2010
- Chair, Department of Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003 - 2007
- Associate Professor, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1997 - 2001
- Acting Chair, Department of Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999 - 2000
- Recognition
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In the News
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Awards & Honors
- Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Level 2 for "Manos Teatrales (Theatrical Hands): Cyber-Paleography and a Virtual World of Spanish Golden Age Theater". National Endowment for the Humanities. September 2009
- Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Teaching Award. Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. April 2009
- ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships. American Council of Learned Societies. 2009
- Digital Innovation Fellowship for "Manos teatrales (Theatrical Hands): Cyber-Paleography and a Virtual World of Spanish Golden Age Theater. American Council of Learned Societies. January 2009
- Provost's Common Fund. Duke University, Office of theProvost. December 2008
- Trent Foundation grant. Unknown. December 2008
- Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and U.S. Universities. Unknown. June 2008
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
- Research
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Selected Grants
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Greer, M. R., and Elizabeth Rhodes. Mara de Zayas y Sotomayor. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion. U. of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Bass, Laura R., and Margaret R. Greer. Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama. New York: Modern Languages Association, 2006.
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Greer, M. R. Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
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Greer, Margaret R., and Margaret R. ed. Basta callar. Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, 2000.
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Greer, M. R., and Elizabeth Rhodes. María de Zayas y Sotomayor. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion. U. of Chicago Press, n.d.
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Academic Articles
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Greer, M. R. “"Move over" Shakespeare: Lope's place in the European theater of his time.” Anuario Lope De Vega 23 (January 1, 2017): 318–46. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/anuariolopedevega.196.Full Text
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Greer, M. R. “Secrets and mysteries in the tragic shift in el caballero de Olmedo.” Memoria Y Civilizacion 19 (January 1, 2016): 147–64. https://doi.org/10.15581/001.19.147-164.Full Text
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Greer, Margaret R. “CALDERON IN HIS LABORATORY: THE EVIDENCE OF SHORT CUT DISCUSSION AND DELIVERY.” Anuario Calderoniano, no. 8 (2015): 153-+.Link to Item
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Greer, M. R. “Lope de Vega, Comedias, Parte XI, Coords. Laura Fernández and Gonzalo Pontón, 2 vols. Madrid, Gredos, 2012.” Calíope, 2014.
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Greer, M. R. “Victor Dixon, En busca del Fénix. Quince estudios sobre Lope de Vega y su teatro., TC/12 / Iberoamericana / Vervuert. Madrid / Frankfurt am Main, 2013.” Anuario Lope De Vega forthcoming (2014).
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Greer, M. R. “Reflections of power: Eco y Narciso by Calderón meets Las meninas by Velazquez.” Anuario Calderoniano 1 (November 18, 2013): 191–211.
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Greer, M. R. “The weight of law in Calderón.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 90, no. 4–5 (June 1, 2013): 651–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2013.802571.Full Text
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Greer, Margaret R. “Spain, Europe and the wider world, 1500–1800.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 14, no. 1 (March 2013): 86–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2013.834736.Full Text
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Greer, M. R. “Los reflejos del poder: Eco y Narciso de Calderón frente a Las Meninas de Velázquez.” Anuario Calderoniano 6 (2013): 191–211.
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Greer, M. R. “Manos Teatrales: la historia contada por los manuscritos,”.” Teapal 7 (2013): 516–31.
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Greer, M. R. “J. H. Elliott, Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500-1800, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 14 (2013).
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Greer, M. R., and A. García-Reidy. “Manos Teatrales: Cyber-Paleography and Early Modern Spanish Theater.” Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 13 (2013): 133–36.
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Greer, M. R. “Don W. Cruickshank, Don Pedro Calderón. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).” Modern Philology, 2012.
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Greer, M. R. “Thine and Mine: The Spanish Golden Age and Early Modern Studies.” Pmla, Theories & Methodologies Section 126 (January 2012): 217–24.
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Greer, Margaret R. “MIRROR NEURONS, THEATRICAL MIRRORS AND THE HONOR CODE.” Anuario Calderoniano, no. 5 (2012): 85-+.Link to Item
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Greer, M. R. “The Weight of Law in Calderón.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2011.
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Greer, M. R. “Maria M. Calderón, "Subject Stages: Marriage, Theatre, and the Law in Early Modern Spain", U. of Toronto Press, 2010.” Hispanic Review, 2011.
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Greer, M. R. “Alban Forcione, "Majesty and Humanity: Kings and Their Doubles in the Political Drama of the Spanish Golden Age," New Haven: Yale UP, 2009.” Calíope 17 (2011): 219–24.
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Greer, M. R. “Teresa Ferrer Vals, dir., Diccionario biográfico de actores del teatro clásico español.” Bulletin of the Comediantes, 2011.
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Greer, M. R. “William Egginton, The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)Baroque Aesthetics. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010).” Revista Hispánica Moderna, 2011.
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Greer, M. R. “Robert Bayliss, The Discourse of Courtly Love in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Theater (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2008).” Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies, 2010.
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Greer, M. R. “La mano del copista: Diego Martínez de Mora interpreta a Calderón.” Anuario Calderoniano 1 (2008): 201–21.
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Greer, M. R., and Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo. “El proyecto ’Manos teatrales’.” Anuario Calderoniano I (2008): 407–11.
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Greer, M. R. “An (In)convenient Marriage? Justice and Power in ’La vida es sueño,’ comedia and auto sacramental.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 85 (2008): 55–68.
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Greer, M. R. “Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Calderón.” A Companion to Tragedy, 2007, 351–70.
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Greer, M. R. “Hispanism and its ’disciplina’.” Hispanic Issues on Line 1 (2006).
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Greer, M. R. “Bruce Burningham. Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage.” Renaissance Quarterly, 2005.
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Greer, M. R., and Harry Sieber. “Bruce W. Wardropper, 1919-2004.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 83 (2005): 249–52.
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Greer, Margaret R., and Andrea Junguito. “Economies of the Early Modern Spanish Stage.” Revista Canadiense De Estudios Hispánicos 29 (2004): 31–46.
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Greer, M. R. “I fantasmi di Cervantes" by Mariarossa Scaramuzza Vidoni.” Cervantes 24 (2004): 259–61.
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Greer, M. R. “La segunda versión de ‘La vida es sueño’, de Calderón. Edición, introducción y notas de Germán Vega García-Luengos, Don W. Cruickshank y J. M. Ruano de la Haza.” Revista Canadiense De Estudios Hispánicos 37 (2003): 380–82.
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Greer, M. R. “In Memoriam: Anthony Higgins, 1964-2001.” Calíope 8 (2002): 95–97.
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Greer, M. R. “Il gran Cid dell Spagne. Materiales para el estudio del tema del Cid en Italia, by Marco Lombardi and Coral García.” Rivista Di Letterature Moderne E Comparate, 2002.
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Greer, M. R. “Pilgrimage to Patronage. Lope de Vega and the Court of Philip III, 1598-1621, by Elizabeth Wright.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool)., 2002.
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Greer, M. R. “Maria de Zayas and the Female Eunuch.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 2 (2001): 41–53.
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Greer, M. R. “El 'Rey Don Pedro en Madrid and El Infanzon de Illescas'. Attributed to Lope de Vega. Critical edition of the text of the primary tradition.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 53, no. 2 (2001): 335–37.Link to Item
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Greer, M. R. “A Tale of Three Cities: The Place of the Theatre in Early Modern Madrid, London and Paris.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool) 77 (2000): 391–419.
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Greer, M. R. “A Star-Crossed Golden Age. Myth and the Spanish Comedia, Frederick A. De Armas, ed.” Revista De Estudios Hispánicos 33 (1999): 587–88.
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Greer, M. R. “Woman and the Tragic Family of Man in Los siete infantes de Lara of Juan de la Cueva.” Hispania 82 (1999): 472–80.
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Greer, M. R. “Class and the Dirty Work of War in Calderón.” Anuario Calderoniano 2 (n.d.).
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Greer, M. R. “Authority and Theatrical Community: Early Modern Spanish Theater Manuscripts.” Renaissance Drama 41 (n.d.).
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Greer, Margaret R., and John Dagenais. “Introduction to Decolonizing the Middle Ages.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30 (n.d.).
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Book Sections
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Greer, M. R. “Francisco de Avellaneda, autor del entremés El infierno de Juan Rana.” In Homenaje a Luis Iglesias Feijóo, Vol. forthcoming, 2014.
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Greer, M. R. “Mapa de amanuenses teatrales del siglo XVII.” In La Comedia Española En Sus Manuscritos, edited by Felipe Pedraza et al, 2014.
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Greer, M. R. “Place, Space and Public Formation in the Drama of the Spanish Empire.” In Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe: Performance, Geography, Privacy, 76–97, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203073681-12.Full Text
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Greer, M. R. “Pedro Calderón de la Barca, dramaturgo cortesano.” In La Literatura En La Época de Felipe IV, edited by M Teresa Ferrer Valls, 2013.
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Greer, M. R. “Los estudios calderonianos: los retos para dentro y para fuera.” In Calderón: Del Manuscrito a La Escena, edited by Frederick A de Armas and Luciano García Lorenzo, 2012.
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Greer, M. R. “Playing the Palace: Space, Place and Performance in the Golden Age.” In Cambridge History of the Theatre in Spain, edited by María Delgado and David Gies, 79–102. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Greer, M. R. “Espacios teatrales: su significación dramática y social.” In Monstruos de Apariencias Lleno’s: Espacio de Representación y Espacios Representados En El Teatro Áureo Español, edited by Francisco Sáez Raposo, 297–320. Gráficas Celler, 2011.
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Greer, Margaret R. “The Baroque and the Undead: Carnal Knowledge in the Novellas of María de Zayas y Sotomayor.” In A Companion to Spanish Women’s Studies, edited by Geraldine Coates, 143–56. Boydell and Brewer, 2011.
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Greer, M. R. “¿Por qué conmueven las cuestiones de la honra? Lope y la neurofisiología.” In Cuatrocientos Años Del ’Arte Nuevo’ de Lope de Vega: Actas Selectas Del XVI Congreso de La Asociación Internacional Español y Novohispano de Los Siglos de Oro (Olmedo, 2009), edited by German Vega García Luengos and Hector Urzáiz Tortajada, 593–98. U. of Valladolid, 2010.
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Greer, M. R. “La clase social y el trabajo sucio de la guerra en los tablados madrileños.” In Opinión Pública y Espacio Urbano En La Edad Moderna, edited by Antonio Castillo Gómez, James S. Amelang, and Carmen Serrano Sánchez, 25–42. Gijón, 2010.
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Greer, M. R. “Calderón and the Bible.” In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
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Greer, M. R. “Autos sacramentales.” In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
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Greer, M. R. ““La caza sacro-política: de El divino bosque de González de Eslava a Calderón,”.” In Teatro Colonial Hispanoamericano, edited by José Antonio Rodríguez Garrido and Ignacio Arellano. PUCP and U. de Navarra, 2007.
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Bass, Laura R., and Margaret R. Greer. “Preface", "Part One: Materials", and "Introduction" to Part Two, Approaches.” In Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama, edited by Laura R. Bass and Margaret R. Greer, 2006.
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Greer, M. R. “Early Modern Spanish Theatrical Transmission, Memory, and a Claramonte Play.” In Festschrift in Honor of Robert L. Fiore, edited by Malcolm Compitello, Chad Gasta, and et al. Juan de la Cuesta, 2006.
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Greer, M. R. “The Politics of memory in Calderón’s "El Tuzaní de la Alpujarra".” In Rhetoric and Reality in Early Modern Spain, edited by Richard Pym, 113–30. London: Tamesis, 2006.
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Greer, M. R. ““Los dos cuerpos del rey en Calderón: El nuevo palacio del Retiro y El mayor encanto amor”.” In El Teatro Clásico Español a Través de Sus Monarcas, edited by Luciano García Lorenzo. Editorial Fundamentos, 2006.
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Greer, M. R. “Imperialism and Anthropophagy in Early Modern Spanish Tragedy.” In Reason and Its Others in Early Modern Spain and Italy, edited by David Castillo. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 2005.
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Greer, M. R. “Diana, Cupid and Barrowed Dogs: On Hunting in ’Don Quixote’.” In Cervantes y Su Mundo, edited by A Robert Lauer and Kurt Reichenberger, 3:201–22. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2005.
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Greer, M. R. “The Creation of National Theater.” In Cambridge History of Spanish Literature, edited by David Gies, 238–50. Cambridge UP, 2004.
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Greer, M. R. “Imperialismo y antropofagia en la tragedia del Siglo de Oro.” In Temas Del Barroco Hispánico, edited by I. Arellano and E. Godoy, 161–75. Iberoamericana, 2004.
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Greer, M. R. “A la caza del sujeto noble en el teatro de los Siglos de Oro.” In Estudios Del Teatro Áureo. Texto, Espacio y Representación, edited by Aurelio González et al, 75–86. México: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – El Colegio de México, 2003.
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Greer, M. R. “Calderon de la Barca, Playwright at Court.” In Cambridge Companion to Valezquez, edited by Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt, 149–69. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Greer, M. R. “El poder del deseo y el deseo del poder.” In Deseo, Sexualidad y Afectos En La Obra de Calderón. Duodécimo Coloquio Anglogermano Sobre Calderón. Leipzig, 14-18 de Julio de 1999, edited by Manfred Tietz, 61–71. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001.
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Other Articles
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Greer, M. R., Walter Mignolo, and Maureen Quilligan. “Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Racism in the Renaissance Empires.” U. of Chicago Press, December 2007.
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Dagenais, John, and Margaret R. Greer. “Decolonizing the Middle Ages.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, n.d.
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- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- Mapa de amanuenses teatrales del siglo XVII,”. October 18, 2013 2013
- De sueños y palacios en el teatro dentro del teatro. August 29, 2013 2013
- El proyecto ‘Manos Teatrales'. July 23, 2013 2013
- Echos and Reflections of Power: Calderón's Eco y Narciso and Velázquez's Las Meninas.". May 1, 2013 2013
- Gender/genre violence: the honor code between tragedy, novella and history. December 1, 2012 2012
- Manos teatrales: La historia contada por los manuscritos. December 1, 2012 2012
- El significado político de las fiestas cortesanas de Calderón: mesa redonda. September 28, 2012 2012
- Los reflejos del poder: Eco y Narciso de Calderón frente a Las Meninas de Velázquez. September 27, 2012 2012
- Echos and Reflections of Power: Calderón's "Eco y Narciso" and Velázquez's "Las Meninas". February 1, 2012 2012
- Los estudios calderonianos: los retos para dentro y para fuera. May 13, 2011 2011
- El poder de la(s) ley(es) en Calderón. March 7, 2011 2011
- Espacios teatrales: Su significación dramática y social," Seminario ProLope 2010,. April 23, 2010 2010
- El nuevo arte de leer manuscritos y de visualizar el mundo teatral. December 1, 2009 2009
- Graduate Workshop on Early Modern Spanish Literature. December 1, 2009 2009
- Place and 'Person' in Spanish Baroque Theater: Staging the Secular and the Sacred. December 1, 2009 2009
- La clase social y el trabajo sucio de la guerra en los tablados madrileños. December 1, 2008 2008
- La puesta en escena de la dinastía Habsburgo española: 'Eco y Narciso' de Calderón. December 1, 2008 2008
- La clase social y el trabajo sucio de la guerra en los tablados madrileños. May 27, 2008 2008
- El honor, Los comendadores de Córdoba de Lope y el sujeto moderno. May 20, 2008 2008
- El arte del poder sobre el tablado: las obras mitológicas de Calderón. April 21, 2008 2008
- An (In)Convenient Marriage? Justice and Power in La vida es sueño, comedia and auto sacramental. March 28, 2008 2008
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