• PhD in Spanish Literature Universtiy of Texas at Austin, 1983
• MA in Latin American Studies University of Texas at Austin, 1966
• BA in Political Science Jackson College for Women of Tufts University, 1963

Professional Experience / Employment History

• Duke University: 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

Conferences Organized

• , Los Moriscos, November 09, 2005
• Conference organizer, with Maureen Quilligan & Walter Mignolo, "Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Race in the Renaissance Empires", 2003/04/18-20

• Graduate Studies Liason, 2006
• Executive Committee, Duke/UNC Latin American Studies Council, September 1, 1998 - present
• Chair, Department of Romance Studies, 2002 - June 30, 2007
• Review Committee Chair, External Review, Colgate University, February, 2007
• Reviewer, December 2005
• Organizer, Morisco conference, November 09, 2005
• Visting committee,, Harvard University, April, 2005
• External reviewer, University of Dublin, Ireland, April 17-21, 2005
• Space Committee, 2002-04
• Refereed papers, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 2002-03
• Papers refereed, Bulletin of the Comediantes, 2002-03
• Paper refereed, PMLA, 2002-03
• Papers refereed, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 2002-03
• Papers refereed, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2002-03
• Book manuscript reviewer, MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions, 2002-03
• Book manuscript reviewer, University of Chicago Press, 2001-03
• Director of Graduate Studies, Graduate Liaison Committee, 2001-03
• Graduate Liaison Committee, 2001-03
• Grant reviewer, American Philosophical Society, 2000-02
• Chair, Search Committee, Director of Spanish Language Program, 2001-02
• Acting Chair, Department of Romance Studies, 2000-01
• Duke Faculty Lecturer, Duke Alumni Adventures tour of Madrid, Andalusia and the Guadalquivir River, March 2001
• Library Committee, 1999-2000
• Executive Committee, Graduate School, 1999-2000
• Reviewer, External Review Committee, Georgetown U., 1999-2000
• Chair, Search Committee, Director of Spanish Language Program, 1998-99
• Graduate Adviser, Spanish & Latin American Section, Graduate Liaison Committee, 1997-99

Selected Recent Talks and Lectures

• "“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.

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 and Professional Lectures (listed separately)