Curriculum Vitae

Margaret R Greer

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

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, 2009-2010
Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Teaching Award, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, April, 2009-2010
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, 2009-2010
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
Recent Grant Support

Selected Recent Invited Talks

Los estudios calderonianos: los retos para dentro y para fuera, University of Chicago, May 13, 2011  
El poder de la(s) ley(es) en Calderón, U. of Huelva, Spain, March 7, 2011  
"Echos and Reflections of Power: Calderón's 'Eco y Narciso' and Velázquez's 'Las Meninas', Clark Library, Los Angeles, February 07, 2011  
Espacios teatrales: Su significación dramática y social," Seminario ProLope 2010,, Barcelona, April 23, 2010  
El nuevo arte de leer manuscritos y de visualizar el mundo teatral, Jornadas de Teatro Clásico, Almagro, Spain, 7-9 July 2009  
Graduate Workshop on Early Modern Spanish Literature, U. of Pennsylvania, March 23-27, 2009  
Place and 'Person' in Spanish Baroque Theater: Staging the Secular and the Sacred, Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., October 29-31, 2009  
"Mirror Neurons, the Lacanian Mirror and Codes of Honor in Classical Spanish Theater, Duke Institute for Brain Science, September 09, 2009  
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  
"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)  
Francisco J. López-Martín, “Representations of Time in the Formation of the Atlantic Space in the Seventeenth Centur, (May 1, 2009)  
Mina Garcia Soormally, Idolatry and the Construction of the Spanish Empire, (September, 2007)  

Publications

Books

  1. M.R. Greer and Elizabeth Rhodes, María de Zayas y Sotomayor. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion (Spring, 2009), U. of Chicago Press
  2. Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men (2000), University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press
  3. Margaret R. Greer, ed., Basta callar. Pedro Calderon de la Barca (2000), Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions

Edited Volumes

  1. M.R. Greer, Walter Mignolo, Maureen Quilligan, eds., Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Racism in the Renaissance Empires (December, 2007), U. of Chicago Press
  2. Laura R. Bass and Margaret R. Greer, eds., Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama (April, 2006), New York: Modern Languages Association
  3. John Dagenais and Margaret R. Greer, eds., Decolonizing the Middle Ages, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 30 no. 3 (Fall, 2000) (A special topics issue.)

Articles Accepted in Collection

  1. M.R. Greer, Place, Space, and Public Formation in the Drama of the Spanish Empire, in Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe: Performance, Potentiality, Privacy, edited by Angela Vanhaelen & Joseph Ward (Winter, 2012)
  2. M.R. Greer, 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 (December, 2011), Cambridge University Press
  3. Margaret R. Greer, 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 (February, 2011), Boydell and Brewer
  4. M.R. Greer, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, dramaturgo cortesano, in La literatura en la época de Felipe IV, in an 8-vol series, "La monarquía de Felipe V", dir. José Martínez Millán, edited by M. Teresa Ferrer Valls (Forthcoming, 2011)
  5. M.R. Greer, Los estudios calderonianos: los retos para dentro y para fuera, in Actas del Simposio Calderón de la Barca, U. of Chicago, May, 2011, edited by Luciano García Lorenzo (forthcoming, 2011)
  6. M.R. Greer, 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 (2011), pp. 297-320, Gráficas Celler, Barcelona
  7. M.R. Greer, ¿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 & Hector Urzáiz Tortajada (2010), pp. 593-598, U. of Valladolid, Valladolid
  8. M.R. Greer, Calderón and the Bible, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Forthcoming 2010), Verlag Walter de Gruyter
  9. M.R. Greer, Autos sacramentales, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Winter, 2008), Verlag Walter de Gruyter
  10. M.R. Greer, Early Modern Spanish Theatrical Transmission, Memory, and a Claramonte Play, in Festschrift in honor of Robert L. Fiore, edited by Malcolm Compitello, Chad Gasta, et al (Winter, 2008), Juan de la Cuesta

Book Reviews

  1. M.R. Greer, Don W. Cruickshank, Don Pedro Calderón. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), Modern Philology (Spring, 2012)
  2. M.R. Greer, Maria M. Calderón, "Subject Stages: Marriage, Theatre, and the Law in Early Modern Spain", U. of Toronto Press, 2010, Hispanic Review (forthcoming, 2011)
  3. M.R. Greer, Alban Forcione, "Majesty and Humanity: Kings and Their Doubles in the Political Drama of the Spanish Golden Age," New Haven: Yale UP, 2009, Calíope, vol. 17 no. 1 (2011), pp. 219-224
  4. M.R. Greer, Teresa Ferrer Vals, dir., Diccionario biográfico de actores del teatro clásico español, Bulletin of the Comediantes (2011)
  5. M.R. Greer, William Egginton, The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)Baroque Aesthetics. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010)., Revista Hispánica Moderna (forthcoming, 2011)
  6. M.R. Greer, Robert Bayliss, The Discourse of Courtly Love in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Theater (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2008), Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies (forthcoming, 2010)
  7. M.R. Greer, Bruce Burningham. Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage, Renaissance Quarterly (Winter, 2007)
  8. I fantasmi di Cervantes" by Mariarossa Scaramuzza Vidoni, Cervantes, vol. 24 (2004), pp. 259-261
  9. Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive’s Tale, by María Antonia Garcés, and Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity, by Barbara Fuchs, Caliope (2003) (forthcoming.)
  10. 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, vol. 37 no. 2 (2003), pp. 380-382
  11. 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)
  12. Pilgrimage to Patronage. Lope de Vega and the Court of Philip III, 1598-1621, by Elizabeth Wright, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool). (2002)
  13. El rey don Pedro en Madrid y el infanzón de Illescas. Attributed to Lope de Vega. Critical Edition of the Text of the Primary Tradition, Carol Bingham Kirby, ed., Bulletin of the Comediantes, vol. 53 no. 2 (2001), pp. 335-337
  14. A Star-Crossed Golden Age. Myth and the Spanish Comedia, Frederick A. De Armas, ed, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 33 (1999), pp. 587-588

Articles in a Journal

  1. M.R. Greer, Authority and Theatrical Community: Early Modern Spanish Theater Manuscripts, Renaissance Drama, vol. 41 (Winter, 2011)
  2. M.R. Greer, Thine and Mine: The Spanish Golden Age and Early Modern Studies, PMLA, Theories & Methodologies section, vol. 126 no. 1 (January, 2011)
  3. M.R. Greer, The Weight of Law in Calderón, Grace Magnier, Bulletin of Spanish Studies (Forthcoming, 2012) (Special issue, Festschrift to Don W. Cruickshank.)
  4. M.R. Greer, Espacio teatrales: su significación dramática y social, ProLope (Winter, 2010)
  5. M.R. Greer, Mirror Neurons, Theatrical Mirrors and the Honor Code, special edition on "The Virtual Worlds of Calderón", edited by Juan Luis Suarez, Anuario calderoniano (2010)
  6. M.R. Greer, Class and the Dirty Work of War in Calderón, Anuario Calderoniano, vol. 2 (Winter, 2008)
  7. M.R. Greer, An (In)convenient Marriage? Justice and Power in 'La vida es sueño,' comedia and auto sacramental, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol. 85 no. 6 (Fall, 2008), pp. 55-68
  8. M.R. Greer and Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo, El proyecto 'Manos teatrales', Anuario Calderoniano, vol. I (2008), pp. 407-411
  9. M.R. Greer, La mano del copista: Diego Martínez de Mora interpreta a Calderón, Anuario Calderoniano, vol. 1 (2008), pp. 201-221
  10. M.R. Greer, Hispanism and its 'disciplina', Hispanic Issues on-line, vol. 1 no. 1 (2006) (Invited contribution to first issue of.)
  11. M.R. Greer, Harry Sieber, Bruce W. Wardropper, 1919-2004, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol. 83 no. 2 (2005), pp. 249-52
  12. Margaret R. Greer, Andrea Junguito, Economies of the Early Modern Spanish Stage, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 29 (2004), pp. 31-46
  13. In Memoriam: Anthony Higgins, 1964-2001, Calíope, vol. 8 no. 2 (2002), pp. 95-97
  14. Maria de Zayas and the Female Eunuch, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, vol. 2 no. 1 (2001), pp. 41-53
  15. Margaret R. Greer and John Dagenais, Introduction to Decolonizing the Middle Ages, Special Topics issue, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 30 no. 3 (2000)
  16. A Tale of Three Cities: The Place of the Theatre in Early Modern Madrid, London and Paris, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool), vol. 77 (2000), pp. 391-419
  17. Woman and the Tragic Family of Man in Los siete infantes de Lara of Juan de la Cueva., Hispania, vol. 82 (1999), pp. 472-480

Articles in a Collection

  1. M.R. Greer, 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, Carmen Serrano Sánchez (2010), Gijón, Editorial Trea
  2. M.R. Greer, “La caza sacro-política: de El divino bosque de González de Eslava a Calderón,”, in Teatro Colonial Hispanoamericano, edited by José Antonio Rodríguez Garrido & Ignacio Arellano (forthcoming 2007), PUCP and U. de Navarra
  3. M.R. Greer, The Politics of memory in Calderón's "El Tuzaní de la Alpujarra", in Rhetoric and Reality in Early Modern Spain, edited by Richard Pym (2006), pp. 113-130, London: Tamesis
  4. Laura R. Bass 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)
  5. M.R. Greer, “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 (2006), Editorial Fundamentos
  6. M.R. Greer, Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Calderón, in A Blackwell Companion to Tragedy, edited by Rebecca Bushnell (2005), pp. 351-369, London: Blackwell
  7. M.R. Greer, Imperialism and Anthropophagy in Early Modern Spanish Tragedy, in Reason and Its Others in Early Modern Spain and Italy, Hispanic Issues, edited by David Castillo (2005), Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press (forthcoming.)
  8. M.R. Greer, Diana, Cupid and Barrowed Dogs: On Hunting in 'Don Quixote', in Cervantes y su mundo, Estudios de Literatura 92, edited by A. Robert Lauer & Kurt Reichenberger, vol. 3 (2005), pp. 201-222, Kassel: Edition Reichenberger
  9. The Creation of National Theater, in Cambridge History of Spanish Literature, edited by David Gies (2004), pp. 238-250, Cambridge UP
  10. M.R. Greer, Imperialismo y antropofagia en la tragedia del Siglo de Oro, in Temas del Barroco hispánico, edited by I. Arellano & E. Godoy (2004), pp. 161-175, Iberoamericana
  11. A la caza del sujeto noble en el teatro de los Siglos de Oro, in Estudios del teatro áureo. Texto, espacio y representación, Cultura Universitaria/Serie Ensayo 75, edited by Aurelio González et al (2003), pp. 75-86, México: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – El Colegio de México
  12. Calderon de la Barca, Playwright at Court, in Cambridge Companion to Valezquez, edited by Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt (2002), pp. 149-169, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  13. 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, Archivum Calderonianum 9, edited by Manfred Tietz (2001), pp. 61-71, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag
  14. Foreward, in Eight Dramas of Calderón translated by Edward Fitzgerald (2000), pp. 1-6, Champaign, Ill., University of Illinois Press

Articles Online

  1. María de Zayas: The Said and the Unsaid., edited by Barbara Simerka and Christopher B. Weimer, Laberinto, vol. 3 (2001)
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