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Margaret R. Greer, Professor and Chair, Romance Studies; Spanish

Contact Info:

Office Location:	35 Dolores Street
Office Phone:	919-660-3102, 919-660-3100
Email Address:

Office Hours:

Spring 2005: Tuesday and Thursday afternoons 4:15-5:30 pm and by appointment. Contact mgffan@duke.edu

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Texas, Austin	1983
M.A.	University of Texas, Austin	1966
BA in Political Science	Jackson College for Women of Tufts University	1963
B.A.	Tufts University	1963

Specialties:

Spanish
Gender Studies, Feminism, Women Studies, Queer Studies
Performance Studies
Psychoanalysis, Psychology
Early Modern

Research Interests:

Spanish Early Modern Literature and Culture, Women Writers, Text Editing

Keywords:

Europe • Spain • Early Modern • Literature • Women Writers

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Melissa Machit  
• Alejandra Rodriguez-Villar  
• Alejandro J. Rodríguez  
• Jesus Hidalgo  
• George Vahamikos  
• Francisco J. López-Martín  
• Meaghan O'Halley  
• Leonardo Bacarreza  
• Mina Garcia Soormally  
• Heraldo C. Falconi  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Greer, MR; Mignolo, W; Quilligan, M, Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Racism in the Renaissance Empires (December, 2007), U. of Chicago Press
2. Greer, MR, Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men (2000), University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press  [author's comments]
3. Greer, MR, Diana, Cupid and Barrowed Dogs: On Hunting in ’Don Quixote’, in Cervantes y su mundo, Estudios de Literatura 92, edited by Lauer, AR; Reichenberger, K, vol. 3 (2005), pp. 201-222, Kassel: Edition Reichenberger
4. Greer, MR; Junguito, A, Economies of the Early Modern Spanish Stage, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 29 (2004), pp. 31-46
5. Greer, MR, Maria de Zayas and the Female Eunuch, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, vol. 2 no. 1 (2001), pp. 41-53
6. Greer, MR, Calderon de la Barca, Playwright at Court, in Cambridge Companion to Valezquez, edited by Stratton-Pruitt, S (2002), pp. 149-169, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Margaret Greer received her PhD from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1983. Before coming to Duke, she taught at Princeton University (1985-1996) and as a visiting professor at New York University and Yale. Her main area of specialization is Early Modern Spanish literature and culture. Her publications include: Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men (University Park, 2000); "Basta calla" of Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Ottawa, 2000); The Play of Power: Mythological Court Dramas of Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Princeton, 1991), "La estatua de Prometeo" of Pedro Calderón de la Barca: A Critical Edition (Kassel, Germany, 1986), Decolonizing the Middle Ages (co-edited with John Dagenais; special topics issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2000); and Fuentes para la historia del teatro en Espana, Vol. 29, Teatro palaciego, 1587-1715, (co-edited with John Varey, Tamesis, 1997). She has also published numerous articles on Calderón, on Tirso de Molina, and on problems of editing and the use of computer technology in research and pedagogy. She is currently working on tragedy in Early Modern Spain and on the representation of hunting in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature, art, and law and Colonial Peru and Mexico. Other research interests include the function of theatre as a cultural institution and psychoanalytic and feminist literary theory.