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Maria Luisa Garcia-Verdugo

Director, Study Abroad Spain
Associate Professor of Spanish
mlgarver@calumet.purdue.edu
Phone: (219)989-2264
Fax: (219) 989-2165

Education

Ph.D., Hispanic Studies (August, 1991) Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. State University of New York at Albany.
Dissertation title: "La Lozana andaluza: La sífilis, enfermedad o metáfora."

M.A., Michigan State University at East Lansing: Hispanic literature and linguistics, 1985

B.A., Universidad de Extremadura at Cáceres, Spain. Profesorado de Enseñanza General Básica; majors: English and Education (June, 1981).

Graduate Student Master Thesis Reader:

A Cross Cultural Comparison of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale among Non-Hispanic White American, Latino American and Hispanic Couples by John Lowe Butler VI, Master of Science, May 2007.

Publications & Books

Luisa de Carvajal en sus Contextos. Editor. Madrid Pliegos, 2007. (In press)

La Lozana andaluza y la literatura del siglo XVI. Madrid: Pliegos, 1994.

Book Chapters and Articles

"Las Lozanas de Alberti y Delicado: Obras de exilio." In Homenaje a Luis Monguió, Ed. Jorge Aladro. Juan de la Cuesta: New York, 1998: 209-217 (Please see supplemental file)

Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature. Ed. Janet Pérez. Greenwood Press, 2001.

  1. "Syphilis as a topic in Spanish Renaissance literature"
  2. "La Lozana andaluza by Francisco Delicado"
  3. "Women in Chivalric Books"
  4. "Women in Disciplina Clericalis"
  5. "Women's Professions in Spanish Golden Age literature"
  6. "Luis Vives: The Instruction of the Christian Woman (1523)"
  7. "Sex in the Spanish Golden Centuries literature: 1500-1700"

Emigraciones y Culturas Contratiempo, Chicago, June 2006

Una mirada al Sudoeste de los EEUU. Contratiempo, Chicago, July 2006

Leer el Quijote en el siglo XXI. Contratiempo. Chicago, November 2006

Orhan Pamuk, Contratiempo. Chicago, February 2007

C-2a: Articles in Electronic Journal:

"Carvajal: Escritora y Aventurera". Especulo, online journal. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain, 2004

"Moros y Cristianos y Los Comanches: Dos muestras del teatro hispano en el sudoeste de los Estados Unidos," Espéculo 1.19, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, online journal, November 2001 ( Please see supplemental file)

Published Web site

Al-Andalus and Sefarad: An Experiment in Peace.
html://www.lass.calumet.purdue.edu/fll/mlgarver

On Arabic and Hebrew Cultures in Spain. 2004
Conference Proceedings (Refereed)
"Don Quijote Digital" Actas III Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas. Mallorca: Uneversitat Ballear, 1999: 134-138
"La Dulcinea menos Dulcinea" Actas I Convivio de Locos Amenos. Desviaciones Lúdicas en la Crítica Cervantina. Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 2000: 266-270

Accepted for Publication

Spanish Literature in the World Editors Salvador Oropesa and Maureen Ihrie, Greenwood Press, 2008.

  1. Hispanism Past and Present
  2. Cultural Institutions for Hispanism in the US
  3. Islamic Presence in Spain
  4. Converso literature in Spain

Book Review

"Siguiendo los hilos de María-Paz Yáñez" Book Review for the Journal of Hispanic Philology. 1997
Manuscripts in progress:
Al-Andalus and Sepharad
Essay on P. Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa’s Descripción y compendio de las Indias Occidentales.
CD-ROM on the Culture of Spain. A Textbook .

Conferences

"A precedent of globalization in Al-Andalus", Global Fusion,
Chicago October, 2006
"La voz marginal de Francisco Delicado" en "La autobiografía en España" UC-Santa Cruz, May 2006
" Fiestas de Moros y Cristianos en Guatemala",
CILCA-Caceres, March 2006
"The Jewish past of Cáceres", CPR , Conference for Teachers,
Caceres, April 2005.

"Comanches y Tejanos: Llegan los Anglos al sudoeste de EEUU".
Paper for the MMLA Conference, Chicago, 2003.
"Lo moro en la sociedad popular Espanola" Paper for the MMLA Conference, Chicago, 2003.
"El Caribe en la obra del Padre Antonio Vázquez." II International Conference for Caribbean Literature, November 3-7, 1999. Bermuda
"Teorías sobre el origen de los habitantes de las Indias Occidentales entre los siglos XVI y XVIII." I International Conference for Caribbean Literature, November 3-7, 1998. Nassau, Bahamas.
"Don Quijote Digital.." III Congreso Internacional de Cervantistas October 18-28, 1997 Menorca (Spain).
"La Dulcinea menos Dulcinea." I Convivio de los locos amenos, October 18-28, 1997 Menorca (Spain).
"The Saint and the Soldier: The Adventures of Erauso y Carvajal." at Apocalypse, Millenarism, New Boundaries. Binghamton University, May 2-5, 1997 New York.
"Autoretrato Literario Barroco: Escritos autobiográficos de doña Luisa de Carvajal y Hurtado de Mendoza." Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University, September 20-22, 1996 Pittsburgh, PA.
"Silence! Exploring the Origins of the Western Ideal of the Good Wife." XVII National Women's Studies Association Conference. Skidmore College, June 12-16, 1996 Saratoga Springs (New York).

Invited conferences:

"Translations of Don Quixote." Truman State University, Missouri. Invited by the Speakers Committee of the School of Humanities. November 21, 1997
"Mística en los EEUU." Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
Invited by the Department of Literary Criticism. March 13, 2001
"Antonio Vazquez, Religious Perspectives in Colonization." Academia Hispana, Fordham University, New York. April 18, 2001
Special Speaker "Encuentro Hispanoamericano de Lenguas" organized by the Junta de Extremadura"s Consejería de Educación, Ciencia y Tenología Cáceres. Spain. June5-6, 2001.

Presentations

"A Woman Soldier, Catalina de Erauso." Women’s Studies Brown Bag Series. Purdue University Calumet, March, 1997.
"Spain, Two Perspectives." With Prof. Torres Robles. International Faculty Forum. Purdue University Calumet. Sept. 25, 1996.

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