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Margaret R Greer

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219B Languages Bldg., Box 90257
Durham, NC 27708
919-660-3119 (office)
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Education

PhD in Spanish LiteratureUniverstiy of Texas at Austin1983
MA in Latin American StudiesUniversity of Texas at Austin1966
BA in Political ScienceJackson College for Women of Tufts University1963
Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Director, Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008 - 2011
Professor, Theater Studies, 2008-present
secondary appointment
Cbair, Romance Studies, 2003-06
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Romance Studies, 2001 -2003
Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Studies, 2001 -
Acting Chair, Department of Romance Studies, 1999 - 2000
Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Studies, 1997 - 2001
Yale University
Visiting Professor, Spring 1996
New York University
Visiting Professor, Spring and Fall 1994
Princeton University
Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, 1992 - 1997
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, 1985 - 1992
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Provost's Common Fund, Duke University, Office of theProvost, July 1 2008-June 30, 2009
Trent Foundation grant, May - December, 2008
Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and U.S. Universities, June, 2008
Selected Recent Invited Talks

La clase social y el trabajo sucio de la guerra en los tablados madrileños, IX Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Cultura Escrita: La Ciudad y las Palabras: Opinión Pública y Espacio Urbano en la Edad Moderna,” Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 28-39 April, 2008  
La puesta en escena de la dinastía Habsburgo española: 'Eco y Narciso' de Calderón, I Jornadas Internacionales sobre la Puesta en Escena del Teatro Español de los Siglos de Oro, Monterrey, Mexico, 23-25 October, 2008  
La clase social y el trabajo sucio de la guerra en los tablados madrileños, Seminario Permanente Calderón de la Barca y el Siglo de Oro, U. of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, May 27, 2008  
El honor, Los comendadores de Córdoba de Lope y el sujeto moderno, Seminario de Historia Cultural, U. Autónoma de Madrid, May 20, 2008  
El arte del poder sobre el tablado: las obras mitológicas de Calderón, Seminario graduado de Teresa Ferrer Vals, U. of Valencia, Spail, April 21, 2008  
An (In)Convenient Marriage? Justice and Power in La vida es sueño, comedia and auto sacramental, Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, Sheffield, England,, March 28, 2008  
“Perspectivas trágicas sobre la historia: la casa de David en el XVII”, November 16, 2007  
"Manos teatrales", U. of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, June, 2007  
"Tragic Views of History on the Early Modern Spanish Stage", U. of Toronto, February 12, 2007  
“La mano del copista: Diego Martínez de Mora interpreta a Calderón”, El Colegio de México, México, DF, October 30, 2006  
“La caza sacro-política: de González de Eslava a Calderón”, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru, April 06, 2006  
"Las fronteras del honor: teoría e historia", U. of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, February 17, 2006  
"La caza del poder en las reservas reales y los tablados festivos", Congreso Internacional, Dramaturgia festiva y cultura nobiliaria en tiempos del Quijote, Lerma, Spain, September 27, 2005  
"Imperialismo y antropofagia en el Barroco trasatlántico", Casa de América, Madrid, Spain, June 6, 2005  
"Espacio y tiempo, casta y ley en 'El Tuzaní de la Alpujarra, Congreso Calderoniano Internacional, Pamplona, Spain, December 14, 2004  
"The Don Juan Myth", MLA Radio Series, 5 February 2004 [radio_shows]  
"Imperialismo y antropophagia en Tirso y Calderón," Temas del barroco hispánico, Conferencia Internacional, Valparaíso, Chile, 1 November 2003  
“Clocks, Maps and History in Early Medieval & Early Modern Spanish Studies," Conference, Tulane University, 2 April 2003  
“Reading María de Zayas and Her Readers", King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New York, 2002  
"Framing the Tale: María de Zayas in the Novella Tradition" Alessandro Crisafulli Memorial Lecture, Catholic University, March, 2002  
Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, 29 January 2002  
“Reading María de Zayas and Her Readers: Where Does the Misery Come From", King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New York, 5 November 2001  
MLA Special Session on Hispanism and Theory, Washington, DC, 28 December 2000  
Calderón Symposium, The University of Texas, Austin, 20 October 2000  
"Ojos hidrópicos": International Seminar on Calderón de la Barca, Lima, Peru, 15 October 2000  
Closing course lecture, Institut Universitari de Cultura, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 5 June 2000  
Lecture, Emory University, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, 2 December 1999  
Keynote Speech, XIII International Symposium on Spanish, University of Texas-Pan American, 14 April 1999  
Doctoral Theses Directed

Yolanda "Fabiola" Orquera, “New Histories and Indigenous Writers during the Early Colonization of Mexico”, (2004)  
María Y. Caba, "Isabel la Católica en la producción teatral española del Siglo XVII", (2003)  
Katie MacLean, "Women and Mystical Expression in Early Modern Spain and Colonial New Spain", (2002)  
Laura Bass, "The Portrait in the Play: Subjectivity and Representation on the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Stage", (2000)  
Carolina Erdocia, "Hacia un poética de la representación sacramental del Siglo de Oro español: Las loas sacramentales de Calderón de la Barca y la celebración del Corpus Christi", (1997)  
Mina Garcia Soormally, Idolatry and the Construction of the Spanish Empire, (September, 2007)  
Publications (listed separately)

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