AsociaciÛn de Escritoras de EspaÒa y las AmÈricas (1300-1800)

6th Annual AEEA Conference
Sept 20-22, 2001
Georgetown University, Washington, DC

"Más allá de los límites"

THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM IS POSTED BELOW

The keynote speaker will be Mary Garrard, Prof of Art History at American University, American University and author of Artemisia Gentileschi Around 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity (University of California Press, 2001).

a. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION and MEMBERSHIP DETAILS
All checks for registration and membership can be mailed to our treasurer, Susan Smith (see below). Checks should be made out to AEEA. There will be a late registration fee of $10 for those who do not register by August 1. However, if you live outside the U.S., this fee will be waived and you will be able to pay the normal registration and dues amounts at the conference. Registration is non-refundable.

Registration: $85 ($75 for graduate students)
Dues: $15

Membership in AEEA is required for final acceptance of abstracts/papers. Please know that all presenters need to join the organization by August 1.

Susan M. Smith, Treasurer
AEEA
Box 172
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943.

Email contact: ssmith@hsc.edu.

b. HOTEL RESERVATIONS
Reservations at the Georgetown Marriott will be available at the group rate of
$144/night (a $60 discount). Please call Carla Jackson at (202) 687-3235 or (202) 687-3232 before mid-July to get the rate.

There are additional rooms reserved at the Washington Suites, Georgetown. These have a living area with sofa bed and a kitchenette. Rates: one person-$139; $20 for each additional person. Toll free reservations: 877-736-2500. These rooms will be held till 8/15.

People wanting less expensive accommodations in Washington should call Quikbook 1-800-789-9887 or check Quickbook.com and specify they want a hotel for less than $99. Quikbook can get discount rates on standard hotel rooms and can also supply names of cheaper hotels.

For other hotel information, see expedia.com
http://www.expedia.com/

c. TRANSPORTATION
The easiest way to travel to Georgetown University is to fly into Washington National Airport (now Ronald Reagan Airport). From there you can take a cab or the Metro (to Foggy Bottom).

d. GRADUATE STUDENTS
Please note that we now have an Award for Outstanding Graduate Paper. The prize is $150 and official recognition at the conference. If you had graduate student status when the paper was submitted and you wish to be considered for the award, please submit a final version of your conference paper by the deadline of August 15, 2001. If you want us to consider the version that you submitted already, please inform us to that effect. The paper can be submitted electronically, preferably in Word format, to: Lisa Vollendorf (l.vollendorf@wayne.edu). If you have questions, please email or call Lisa in Los Angeles at 310 709 7050. Entries will be judged by a sub-committee of the Conference Committee and winner will be announced at the conference.

e. FURTHER INFORMATION
Further questions about the conference (including requests for audiovisuals and special room needs) should be directed to our 2001 Conference Organizer, Barbara Mujica (mujica@georgetown.edu).

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

THURSDAY

8:00-8:30am Registration

8:30am Opening ceremony in the Intercultural Center Auditorium

9:00-10:30am Session Block I

Mining the Archives (Room 450 ICC)
Lisa Vollendorf, Wayne State University
"Women's Cultural History in Inquisition and Convent Texts"
Valerie Hegstrom, Brigham Young University
"Rewards in the Archives"

Catholicism across the Continents (Room 462 ICC)
Yolanda Gamboa, Florida Atlantic University
"La retórica de la alusión o la ejemplar confesión de las novelas de María
de Zayas"
Sarah Owens, College of Charleston
"Disciplinas de sangre: The Purpose of Penance in the Confessional Letters of Sor Sebastiana de la Santísima Trinidad (1709-1757)"
Jeanne Gillespie, University of Southern Mississippi
"Looking at the Virgin through Nahua Eyes: Colonial Nahuatl Poetics and
the Reception of Catholicism"

10:45-12:15pm Session Block II

Leyendo entre líneas (Room 450 ICC)
Constance Rose, Northeastern University
"Teresa de Cartagena and the Uncircumscribed Ear"
María Castro de Moux, Naval Academy
"Sor Magdalena de San Jerónimo y su opúsculo sobre la prostitución:
¿precursor de Concepción Arenal?"

Sor Juana y sus hermanas (Room 462 ICC)
Debra Ochoa, U of Texas, Austin
"'Falsos silogismos los colores', Ekphrasis in the
Ovillejo of Sor Juana."
Elia Armacangui-Tipacti, Lawrence University
"La mujer en la sociedad colonial: Sor María Manuela"
Jennifer Meléndez Ruiz, U of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Sor Juana: ¿Intelectual religiosa o religiosa intelectual?"

12:15-1:30pm Lunch

1:45-3:15pm Session Block III

Women's Bodies (Room 450 ICC)
Chair: Sharon Voros, US Naval Academy
Amy Williamsen, University of Arizona
"Embarazada, la pierna quebrada y en casa: Staging Pregnancy in Early
Modern Spain"
Aldona Pobutsky, Wayne State University
"Hidden Bodies/Survival Strategies: The Lieutenant Nun and Zayas's
Disenchantments of Love"
Jane Tar, Fayetteville State University
"Iberian Stigmatics"

Actividad y autoridad en los conventos (462 ICC)
Nuria Salazar Simarro, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
"Solicitudes de ingreso: las laicas en la clausura femenina"
Fernando Pérez, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"La Mirada ensimismada de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz"
Juan Maura, University of Vermont
"Mujeres claves en el descubrimiento de América: María de Toledo e
Isabel Moñiz"

3:30-5pm Afternoon plenary (ICC Auditorium)
Chair: Barbara Mujica, Georgetown University

Women Writers in Early Modern Europe
Deborah Lesko Baker, Georgetown University
"The Legacy of Women's Writing in Early Modern France: Reading
Louise Labé for the 21st Century"
Dennis McAuliffe, Georgetown University
"Vittoria Colonna and the Flowering of Poetry by Renaissance Italian Women"
Carol Dover, Georgetown University
"Christine de Pisan's Livre des Faits d'Armes et de Chevalerie: The Uneasy
Alliance of Woman and Warfare?"

6:30pm: Program at Instituto Mexicano, hosted by the Ministro para Asuntos Culturales, Manuel Durán Loera. This will include a reading by Barbara Mujica from her latest novel, Frida, and a reading of Sor Juana's poetry by actors from GALA Hispanic Theater.

FRIDAY

8-8:30am Late registration

8:30-10:30am Morning Plenary (ICC Auditorium)
"Bringing Early Modern Women's Texts to Postmodern Audiences"

Part I: 'Going Backward up the Escalators of Time': A Roundtable on Issues in Early Modern Translation
Convener: Electa Arenal (City University of New York, Staten Island and Graduate Center)
Amanda Powell (University of Oregon)
Nina Scott (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Alison Weber (University of Virginia)

Part II: Translating, Directing, and Acting in Sor Juana's Los empeños de una casa
David Pasto, Oklahoma City University
John Fletcher, Oklahoma City University

10:45am-12:15pm Session Block IV

Hacia una estética femenina (Room 450 ICC)
Donna Chambers, Georgetown University
"Embroidered Destinies: Crafting Fate through Skill in Mariana de Carvajal"
Ana María Sánchez Catena, U of Massachusetts, Amherst
"La verdad a través del vestido en Los empeños de una casa"
Cecilia Cuesta-Vélez, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Diversidad barroca en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz"

Cruzando fronteras (Room 462 ICC)
Organizadora: Nieves Romero-Díaz, Mount Holyoke College
Barbara Simerka, Fordham University
"East Meets West: Zayas, Teresa de Avila, and Japan"
Marcella Salvi, University of Oregon
"Reinas, bufones y prostitutas: Los márgenes teatrales de Ana Caro y Margherita Costa"
Nieves Romero-Díaz, Mount Holyoke College
"Behn y Zayas: En busca de una tradición (im)propia"

Scientific Perspectives on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Room t.b.a.)
Patricia R. Fernós, University of Texas, Austin
"The Alchemy of Love in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Sonnets"
Irma Cantú, University of Texas, Austin
"El sueño como metáfora del viaje marítimo"
María Regina Ruiz, University of Texas, Austin
"Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Aproximaciones críticas a su obra y
nuevos enfoques científicos"

12:15-1:45pm Lunch

2-3:30pm Session Block V

La dramaturgia femenina en España y México (Room 450 ICC)
Kate Regan, Portland University
"Completing the Circle: Jacinta's Ring in El muerto disimulado"
M. Reina Ruiz, University of Arkansas
"La mujer en el barroco: escritura, linaje y rancio abolengo
Bonnie Gasior, California State University, Long Beach
"Slaying the Beast: The Case of Beatriz in Sor Juana's La segunda Celestina"

Las voces del pasado: música y escritura (Room t.b.a.)
María Figuera, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"La escritura conventual: María de San José, una voz autorial"
Adriana Rosman-Askot, The College of New Jersey
"Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y las trampas del discurso"
Lucía Díaz Marroquín, SUNY, Stony Brook
"Voces del pasado en medios del futuro"

Gender Studies and Convent Culture (Room 462 ICC)
Gladys Ilarregui, Fundación Cultural Iberoamericana
"La escritura hagiográfica: teatro para un cuerpo. Aproximaciones a un
discurso de subordinación femenina"
Emilia Francomano, Columbia University
"Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Sor Juana's World and Work"
Joan Cammarata, Manhattan College
"In the Still of the Night ... and Day: Teresa de Cartagena"

3:45-5:15pm Session Block VI

Del mito a la realidad: la mujer en la historia (Room 450 ICC)
Virginia Gutiérrez, UC Davis
"La función transgresora de la jerarquía mitológica en el Neptuno Alegórico de
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz"
Grady Wray, University of Oklahoma
"Sor Juana's Devotion to Wisdom: The Ejercicios devotos and
Biblical Wisdom Literature"
Ellen Anderson, York University
"A-mazing Grace: Language and Structure in Amor es más laberinto by Sor
Juana Inés de la Cruz"

The Politics of Gender and the Gender of Politics (Room 462 ICC)
Ana María Laguna, Purdue University
"How to Negate what Never Happened: Zayas's and Cervantes's Devices to
Protest La perfecta casada"
Teresa Soufas, Tulane University
"Isabel I and the Politics of Queenship"
Rosario Swanson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Narciso en el espejo de Sor Juana"

SATURDAY
8:30-10am Session block VII

Estrategias retóricas y políticas en la obra de Sor Juana Inés de
la Cruz"(Room 450 ICC)
Organizadoras: Dra. Verónica Grossi, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro & Dra. Susan Isabel Stein, Texas Tech University

Verónica Grossi, UNC Greensboro
"Alegoría y espectáculo de poder en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz"
Amanda Powell, U of Oregon
"Satirical Sexualities in Sor Juana"
Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State University
"Acerca de la fama y la modestia en la poesía de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz"
Susan Isabel Stein, Texas Tech University
"Sor Juana, Athenagoric Warrior"

María de Zayas en el nuevo milenio (Room 462 ICC)
Monica Leoni, University of Waterloo
"Shape Shifting Caution: Transformations of the Female Tale in María de Zayas"
Stacey Parker Aronson, University of Minnesota, Morris
"Cognitive Dissonance in 'La esclava de su amante'"
María José Delgado, Capital University
"Sonetos amorosos en Novelas amorosas y ejemplares de doña María de Zayas"

10:15-11:45am Session Block VIII

La "vida" conventual (Room 450 ICC)
Jennifer Eich, Loyola Marymount University
"Una monja hispanoamericana colonial: Su 'vida' como cuerpo cultural e institucional"
Eleanor Grace Marsh, University of California, Davis
"Identificación genérica y humanización de Cristo en la Vida de la
Venerable Madre Isabel de Jesús"
Susan Smith, Hampden-Sydney College
"The Vida of Sor Marcela de San Félix"

Writing Women into History (Room 462 ICC)
Nancy Marino, Michigan State University
"The Letters of Princess Isabel of Castile"
Caroline Jumel, Wayne State University
"Cross-dressing and Crossing Space in Catalina de Erauso's The Lieutenant Nun"
Johnny Payne, Florida Atlantic University
"Micaela Bastidas: History and Opera"

12-1:30pm Luncheon and Annual Business Meeting (Leavey Conference Center)

Saturday Evening: Conference participants who remain in Washington can attend a play by Arrabal at GALA Hispanic Theater. Contact Barbara Mujica for details.