2006 Conference at Georgetown University

Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas 1300-1700
and the Association of Hispanic Classical Theater 

Thursday
October 5, 2006

Time	Event
	Location	
8:00am -9:00am
	Breakfast and Registration
	Davis Lobby
	
8:30am -8:50am	Welcome	Gonda Theater	
	Bárbara Mujica, AHCT President and Conference Host, Georgetown University		
	Lisa Vollendorf, AEEA President		
	Alfonso Morales-Front, Chair, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University
		
9:00am - 10:30am	Interdisciplinary Panel: Early Modern Women
Chair: Bárbara Mujica, Georgetown University
	Gonda Theater	
	Debora Lesko Baker, Georgetown University
“Eros and Writing: Louise Labé’s Legacy”		
	Amy Leonard, Georgetown University
“Gender, Confession and Education in Reformation Germany”		
	Dennis McAuliffe, Georgetown University
"Vittoria Colonna from the Secular to the Divine"		
	Julia Lamm, Georgetown University
“Julian of Norwich: Divine Lordship, Divine Motherhood"
		
10:45am-12:00pm	Session Block I
		
	Del texto a la puesta en escena
Chair: Christopher Weimer, Oklahoma State University
	ICC 450	
	Nina Scott, Mt. Holyoke College
"Corsets, Spiders and Human Foibles:  House of Desires at the University of Massachusetts."		
	David Pasto, Oklahoma City University
"A Comparison of Two Translations and Productions of Los empeños de una casa"		
	Sidney Donnell, Lafayette College
"Offering a Hand (or a Just Finger) in Marriage? Generic Closure and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Los empeños de una casa"		

	El cuerpo femenino y su significado
Chair: Sonia Pérez Villanueva, Bennington College
	ICC 462
	
	Nadia Avendaño, College of Charleston
"La violencia masculina en los Desengaños amorosos de María de Zayas"		
	David Castillo, SUNY, Buffalo
"Zayas' Bodyworks"		
	Verónica Grossi, UNC, Greensborough
"Feminine Body and Knowledge in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz"
		
	Escritura, lectura y traducción
Chair: Ellen Anderson, York University
	Davis Center: Devine	
	David Harms, Randolph-Macon College
"Her Vida vs. the Archives: Will the Real María Magdalena Lorravaquio Please Stand Up?"		
	Alison Weber, University of Virginia
"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Teresa of Avila and the Jesuits"		
	Darcy Donahue, Miami University
“Leonor de Mascarenhas and the Jesuits: A Patron and her Cause”
		
12:00pm-1:00pm
	Lunch
		
1:15pm- 2:30pm	Session Block II
		
	Entre líneas: relaciones históricas interpersonales
Chair: Nina Scott, Mt. Holyoke College
	ICC 450
	
	Raquel Trillia, University of Lethbridge
"Experiencia, escritura y participación en las primeras escritoras castellanas"		
	Emily Francomano, Georgetown University
"Educating Women through Sexual Violence: The Spanish Sentimental Romances as Primers for Language Learning"		
	Mary Baldridge, Carson-Newman College
"The Importance of Being Prudent: Gender and Virtue in Admiración operum dey"	

			
	Influencias y presencias textuales
Chair: David Harms, Randolph-Macon College
	ICC 462	
	Lourdes Noemí Jiménez, St. Anselm College
"Beatríz Bernal y el Caballero de las Coronas: ‘este caballero ha nombre la Infanta Minerva’"		
	María C. Albin, University of Richmond
“La espiritualidad erótica en la poesía de Teresa de Avila”		
	Lisa Vollendorf, California State University, Long Beach
"Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World”
		
	Deseo y trasgresión: ¿quién más sino Zayas?
Chair: Sidney Donnell, Lafayette College	Davis Center: Devine	
	Maria Joao Dodman, York University
"Playing the ‘Other’: Cross-Dressing and Beauty in Valor, agravio y mujer"		
	Grady Wray, University of Oklahoma
"Cross-Dressing for Success: María de Zayas' El juez de su causa"		
	Benito Quintana, University of Hawaii, Manoa
"Una visión interna del deseo: la poesía en Desengaños amorosos de María de Zayas"
		
	Honor, virtud y género
Chair: Sarah Owens, College of Charleston	Davis Center: Room 36	
	Gwyn Campbell, Washington and Lee University
"Beauty and the Best in Mariana de Carvajal's La venus de Ferrara"		
	Sonia Pérez Villanueva, Bennington College
"A Question of Honor"		
	Emily Stanfill, Brigham Young University
"'Woe is me, woe is me!': Immortal Eros in the Writings of Santa Teresa de Avila"		
2:45pm- 4:00pm	Session Block III
		
	Pretextos y  posmodernismo: teatro y film
Chair: Emily Francomano, Georgetown University
	ICC 450	
	Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State University
"Reescrituras poscoloniales del femenino colonial: del archivo a la ficción"		
	Barbara Simerka, Queens College, CUNY
"Feminism and Scopophilia in Ana Caro, Sor Juana and Contemporary Film"		
	Clara Pascual Argente, Georgetown University
"Projections of Medieval Queens in Spanish Cinema"

	Construcción de identidades
Chair: Grady Wray, University of Oklahoma
	ICC 462	
	Ma. Pilar Manero Sorolla, Universidad de Barcelona
"Cartas de Ana de Jesús a Monseñor Pierre de Bérulle"		
	Yamile Silva, U. Massachusetts, Amherst
"Poética de la autobiografía en María de Jesús de Ágreda"		
	Clara Herrera, University of Illinois, Chicago
"La madre Jerónima Nava y su misión co-redentora"
		
	El sujeto femenino y el género epistolar
Chair: Darcy Donahue, Miami University	Davis Center: Devine	
	Carmen Vidal-Liberman, New Mexico Highlands University
"The Unrequited Love of Soror Mariana Alcoforado in the Portuguese Letters: Interior Monologue or the Superego Speaks"		
	Nuria Salazar Simarro, Universidad Iberoamericana
"Buzón de quejas: cartas de monjas contra la imposición de la vida común"		
	Montserrat Pérez-Toribio, University of Illinois, Chicago
"Madres y Mujeres de Negocios en el Siglo XVI: Correspondencia de dos Damas Catalanas"
		
4:15pm- 5:30pm	Session Block IV
		
	Textos y pretextos: música y el arte de la edición
Chair: Sharon Voros, United States Naval Academy
	ICC 450
	
	Julián Olivares, University of Houston
"The Editorial History of the Novelas amorosas y ejemplares, by María de Zayas y Sotomayor: Three Hundred Years of a Pirated Text"		
	Doris Bieñko, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
“Presencia e influencia de Gertrudis la Magna en la escritura y experiencia religiosa femenina novohispana”		
	Lucía Díaz Marroquín, The Warburg Institute
"Reminiscences of the Stile Concitato and the Expression of Anger in the Female Voice in the Spanish 17th Century” 
		
	El otro "racial" y las mujeres escritoras
Chair: Gwyn Campbell, Washington and Lee University
	Davis Center:
Devine
	
	Ellen Anderson, York University
"Captivity and Captivation in Mariana de Carvajal and Miguel de Cervantes"		
	Brad Ellis, St. Norbert College
"Identity Transgression and Disguise in Zayas and Cervantes: Literary Representations of Morisco Culture in Early Modern Spain"		
	Mónica Díaz, University of Texas Pan American
"Acusación y defensa en los claustros para mujeres indígenas en el México colonial"		
	Máscaras sociales y trasgresión
Chair: Valerie Hegstrom, Brigham Young University	Davis Center:
Room 36	
	Emily Tobey, Brigham Young University
"Adopting a New Face: Disguise as Escape in the Drama of Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán"		
	Horacio Chiong Rivero, Swarthmore College
"The Monster in the Labyrinth: Courtly Games and Carnivalesque Masquerades in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Amor es más laberinto"		
	Donna Chambers, Georgetown University
"Pawnbrokers, Pimps and Patriarchs in the Works of Angela de Azevedo"		
	La expansión del campo: mesa redonda sobre el estudio del género
Chair: Nieves Romero-Díaz, Mt. Holyoke College
	ICC 462	
	Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State University		
	Sarah Owens, College of Charleston		
	Jeanne Gillespie, University of Southern Mississippi		
	Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Humacao		
6:00pm- 7:00pm
	Reception hosted by the Embassy of Spain, Jorge Sobredo, Minister of Culture	ICC Galleria	
8:00pm- 10:00pm	Friendship Betrayed, Directed by Karen Berman	Devine Studio Theater	

Friday
October 6, 2006

Time	Event
	Location	
8:00am- 9:00am	Breakfast and Registration	ICC Auditorium Foyer
	
9:00am- 10:15am	Keynote Address
Christopher Wilson, Institutum Carmelitanum and Holton-Arms School
“A Problematic Matriarch: The Visual Shaping of Teresa of Avila”
	ICC Auditorium
	
10:30am- 11:45am	Session Block V		
	Arte y artistas
Chair: Jeanne Gillespie, University of Southern Mississippi
	ICC 450	
	Lisa Banner, Hispanic Society of America
“The Autobiography of the Painter Sor Estefanía and The Duke of Lerma”		
	Michelle Swindell, University of Texas at Dallas
"In Pursuit of Pintoras: Professionalism and the Eighteenth-Century"		
	Rosa Perelmuter, University of North Carolina
"El sabor del saber en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz"		
	La escritora y la tradición patriarcal de la escritura
Chair: Stacey Schlau, Westchester University
	ICC 462	
	Anne J. Cruz, University of Miami
"Maria de Zayas and Miguel de Cervantes: Un casamiento engañoso"		
	Oswaldo Estrada, University of Puget Sound
“Gender Transgression in the (Re)Writings of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz”		
	Alessandra Luiselli, Texas A&M University
“’Pues cual sabia examináis, que no elijáis como hermosa’: un célebre antecedente teatral novohispano a Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz” 		
	Pedagogía
Chair: Barbara Simerka, Queens College, CUNY
	Davis Center: 
Devine	
	Kate Regan, University of Portland
"Visualizing Words: Using Digital Filmmaking to Teach Ana Caro"		
	Dana Bultman, University of Georgia
"The Pleasure of Teaching: The Alumbrada María de Cazalla in the Context of Erasmus and Francisco de Osuna"		
	Dona Kercher, Assumption College
"Teaching Spanish Mysticism at a Catholic Undergraduate Institution: Issues of Relevance, Accessibility, and Self-Censorship"
		
	AHCT Session 1
Chair: Christopher Gascón, State University of New York College at Cortland	Davis Center: Room 36	
	Laura Vidler, United States Military Academy
"Beyond Modesty: Costume as Prop in El caballero de Olmedo"		
	Ángel Sánchez, Arizona State University
"El ropaje en El caballero de Olmedo"		
	Christopher Weimer, Oklahoma State University.
"Calderón on the BBC: Translation and Audio Performance in the New Millennium"		
11:45am-1:00pm
	Lunch
		
1:00pm- 2:15pm	Session Block VI
		
	Imperio y visibilidad de la voz femenina
Chair: Susan Smith, Hampden-Sydney College
	ICC 450	
	Ana María Díaz Burgos, Emory University
"Coordenadas referenciales: elementos fundamentales para la construcción y articulación de la manifestación de las voces femeninas en el espacio colonial de la Nueva Granada 1610-1741"		
	George Antony Thomas, University of Nevada, Reno
"Women Poets of Empire: Sor Juana and the Imperial tradition"		
	Margaret Boyle, Emory University
“Female Friendship in María de Zayas’ La traición en la amistad”		
	La escritora en su entorno
Chair: Sherry Velasco, University of Southern California
	ICC 462	
	María Vintró, Independent Scholar
"Oliva Sabuco: Una insólita"		
	Encarnación Juárez, University of Notre Dame
"La discapacidad corporal y el control del texto: las autobiografías de Teresa de Cartagena y Teresa de Ávila"		
	Raúl Marrero-Fente, University of Richmond
"Género, convento y escritura: La poesía de Sor Leonor de Ovando en el contexto colonial"
		
	AHCT Session 2
Chair: Constance Wilkins, Miami University, Ohio	Davis Center: Room 36	
	Mindy Stivers Badía, Indiana University Southeast
"Between the Piano and the Concerto:  Mediating Agency in María de Zayas's La traición en la amistad"		
	Robert Bayliss, University of Kansas
"La traición en la amistad: María de Zayas's Exemplary Comedy"		
	Anthony J. Grubbs, Michigan State University (Session Organizer)
"Woman to Woman: Performing Relationships in La traición en la amistad"		
	Catherine Larson, Indiana University
Respondent
		
2:30pm-3:45pm	Session Block VII		
	Indígenas, monjas, mujeres: las Américas
Chair: Kate Regan, University of Portland
	ICC 450	
	Paulette Pepin, University of New Haven
“Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695): A Cultivator of Female Intellectualism”		
	Sarah Owens, College of Charleston
“Nuns’ Travels and the Building of the Spanish Empire”		
	Hernán Fontanet-Villa, Fayetteville State University
"Literatura ‘lateral’, ‘escritoras a pesar suyo’, discurso autobiográfico, confesiones, visiones místico celestiales y literatura epistolar en Cartas de Mujeres en Chile (1630-1885) y otros textos”		
	La recuperación de subtextos y espacios perdidos
Chair: Brad Ellis, St. Norbert College
	ICC 462	
	Anna-Lisa Halling, Brigham Young University
"Recovering Sor Violante do Céu’s Villancicos and Uncovering their Theatricality"		
	Jeannie Gillespie, University of Southern Mississippi
"Women's Voices in the Cantares mexicanos: The Pleasure of the Word"		
	Evelyn O’Hara, Queens College, CUNY
“Self-fashioning in Hostile Societies: Identity Formation in “El juez de su causa” and Oronooko”		
	Recepción y economía culturales
Chair: Anne J. Cruz, University of Miami
	ICC 425	
	Aránzazu Borrachero Mendíbil, Queensborough Community College
"Economía poética de Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán"		
	Jennifer Eich, Loyola Marymount University
"Absolution and Reception: Sor Juana and Her Readers"		
	Mario Ortiz, Catholic University of America
"De tocotín and Pange lingua: Música y escolasticismo en el Divino Narciso de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz"
		
	AHCT Session 3
Chair: Ángel Sánchez, Arizona State University	Davis Center: Devine	
	Thomas P. Finn, Ohio Northern University
"Sacred Promises: The Use and Abuse of Vows in the Comedia"		
	María Reina Ruiz, University of Arkansas
"Raptos que dan risa: Las violencias de Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán en la Tragicomedia de los jardines y campos sabeos"		
	María José Domínguez-Sullivan, Arizona State University
"La pluma de Ángela de Azevedo dibuja la imagen de María en Dicha o desdicha del juego y devoción de la Virgen"
		
	AHCT Session 4
Chair: Sharon Voros, United States Naval Academy	Davis Center: Room 36	
	Christopher Gascón, State University of New York College at Cortland
"Jorge Ali Triana’s El Quijote (2006)"		
	Jorge Abril Sánchez, University of Chicago
"La figura mitológica asturiana del trasgo en el Entremés del viejo celoso de Miguel de Cervantes"		
	Jonathan Ellis, Oklahoma State University, 
"Impertinent Machinations and Faithful Friendship: The Role of Carlos in Cueva's La firmeza en la ausencia"
		
4:00pm- 5:15pm	Session Block VIII		
	Feminismo y colaboración: mesa redonda
Chair: Nieves Romero-Díaz, Mt. Holyoke College
	ICC 115	
	Electa Arenal, CUNY Graduate Center		
	Amanda Powell, University of Oregon		
	Stacey Schlau, Westchester University		
	Barbara Simerka, Queens College, CUNY		
	Amy Williamsen, University of Arizona		
	Valerie Hegstrom, Brigham Young University
		
	AHCT Session 5
Chair: Robert Johnston, Northern Arizona University
	ICC 102	
	Linda Elman, DePauw University
"Calderón and the Morisco Rebellion: A Production of Eduardo Vasco and Madrid's Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico"		
	María Castro de Moux, United States Naval Academy
“Madgalena desdoblada: una representación mexicana de La celosa de sí misma de Tirso.”		
	Kerry Wilks, Wichita State University and Celia Braxton, City University of New York
"Burlesca in Calderón's Céfalo y Pocris: The Compañía de La Puerta de Menella's Production"		
	AHCT Session 6
Chair: Laura Vidler, United States Military Academy
	ICC 106	
	Susan Paun de García, Denison University
“Cuando Paco quiere, quiere: Una representación de El castigo sin venganza de Francisco Portés”		
	Maryrica Lottman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
“Saint Christopher in Lope’s El Nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón”		
	Catherine Connor, University of Vermont
"Comedia Spectatorship and Gendered Applications of Cognitive-Emotive Research"
		
7:00pm	Busses depart for GALA Theater	Healy Gates
	
8:00pm	Valor, agravio y mujer	GALA Theatre
	
10:30pm	Busses depart for Georgetown University	GALA Theatre	

Saturday
October 7, 2006

Time	Event
	Location	
7:30am – 10:00am	Breakfast	ICC Galleria
	
7:45am- 8:45am	AEEA Business Meeting 
Note: All AEEA members invited to attend business meeting to discuss important organizational issues.
	ICC 115

9:00am- 10:15am	Session Block IX		
	Erotismo y deseo
Chair: Amy Williamsen, University of Arizona
	ICC 550	
	Amanda Powell, University of Oregon
"Queering the Quarrel: Contexts and Conflicts in Sapphic Verse"		
	Sherry Velasco, University of Southern California
"The Rhetoric of Same-Sex Desire in Santa Teresa"		
	Jane Tar, University of St. Thomas
"The Addressees of María de Agreda’s Mistica ciudad de Dios"
		
	Relaciones intertextuales e interpersonales
Chair: Jennifer Eich, Loyola Marymount University
	ICC 104	
	Katie MacLean, Kalamazoo College
"The Possibilities of Friendship: Mary of Agreda and Philip IV"		
	Katherine Risse, Tufts University
"'Capitana y caudillo de los ejércitos': The Virgin Mary as Model Mother and Warrior"		
	María Mercedes Carrión, Emory University
“A Life of Inquisition, Iconography, and Translation. Teresa de Jesús’s Libro de la vida”		
	Configuración de la identidad
Chair: Aránzazu Borrachero Mendíbil, Queensborough Community College
	ICC 106	
	María José Delgado, Capitol University
"¡Yo soy quien soy y hago lo que me toca porque en un sujeto se incluyen valor, agravio y mujer!"		
	Iván Fernández, Yale University
"'No tengo otra cosa buena': Identidad nacional e identidad de género en Catalina de Erauso"		
	Jessie Christensen, Brigham Young University
"The Woman in the Text: Angela de Azevedo and l’écriture de femme"
		
	AHCT Session 7
Chair: Susan Paun de García, Denison University
	ICC 115	
	Dawn Smith, Professor Emeritus, Trent University, Canada
"Women on Stage in Tirso's Old Testament Plays"		
	Ben Gunter, Florida State University
"Recapturing the Stage Life of Don Juan's Damas"		
	Jelena Sánchez, University of Illinois at Chicago
"The Transvestite Woman: A Paradigm of Feminized Masculinity and Society in Tirso de Molina's Don Gil de las calzas verdes"
		
10:30am	Busses depart for GALA Theater	Healy Gates
	
11:00am- 1:00pm	Taller with actors	GALA Theatre
	
1:00pm	Clausura
	GALA Theatre
	
1:15pm	Busses depart for Georgetown University	GALA Theatre	

2006 Conference Committee
Bárbara Mujica, Co-Chair, AHCT President, Conference Host 
Lisa Vollendorf, Co-Chair and AEEA President
Nieves Romero-Díaz, AEEA Past-President
Susan Smith, AEEA Treasurer
Sharon Voros, AHCT Treasurer

AEEA Officers
Lisa Vollendorf, President
Sarah Owens, First Vice-President
Barbara Simerka, Second Vice-President
Grady Wray, Secretary 
Susan Smith, Treasurer 
Nieves Romero-Díaz, Past President

AHCT Officers 
Barbara Mujica, President
Anita Stoll, First Vice President
Susan Paun de García, Second Vice President
Robert Johnston, Recording Secretary
Sharon Voros, Treasurer
Donald Dietz, President Emeritus

2006 Awards for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper

First Prize (shared):
Donna Chambers, " Pawnbrokers, Pimps and Patriarchs in the Works of Angela De Azevedo" 
Yamile Silva, "Poética de la autobiografía en María de Jesús de Agreda" 
 
Honorary Mention:
Jessie Christiensen, "The Woman in the Text: Angela de Azevedo and l’écriture de femme"

Special thanks to the following organizations:
Embassy of Spain
Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spanish Ministry of Culture and United States Universities
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University
Program in Performing Arts, Latin American Studies, Catholic Studies, Women’s Studies, French Department
Georgetown University Jesuit Community
Washington Women in Theater, GALA Hispanic Theater