A
Conference on Woman Writers of the Spanish Golden Age and Latain
American Colonial Period
The
conference organizers would like to thank the following individuals,
agencies, organizations and offices for their generous support,
without which this conference could not have occurred:
The
Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture
and United States Universities
Dr. Robert M. Sweazy , Vice Provost for Research, and the Office
of Research Services, Texas Tech University
Dr. Jane Winer , Dean, and the College of Arts and Sciences, Texas
Tech University
Dr. Peder Christiansen, Chair , and the Department of Classical
and Modern Languages and Literatures, Texas Tech University
Dr. Gwendolyn T. Sorell, Coordinator , Women's Studies Program,
Texas Tech University
We would also like to thank:
Sigma Delta Pi for helping with refreshments and logistics; Ver6nica
Henmndez for providing child care; Galen Yorba-Gray for organizing
the shuttle service, and the drivers: Oscar Henmndez, Michael
Sawyer and Keith Woodall; the departmental secretaries: Margie
Salazar, Mimi Vandiver and Linda Slagle; Karissa Greathouse of
the Language Learning Laboratory; &ther Lichti of the Women's
Studies Program, Mary Camp of the Office of Research Services,
and all those who have helped in any way.
The Organizing Committee:
Ted McVay, Chair, Marla Castro de Moux, United States Naval Academy
Texas Tech University Susan Paun de Garda, Denison University
Laura J. Beard, Texas Tech University Valerie Hegstrom, Brigham
Young University Susan I. Stein, Texas Tech University Anita K.
Stoll, Cleveland State University Amy Williamsen, University of
Arizona
A
CONFERENCE ON WOMEN WRITERS OF THE SPANISH GOLDEN AGE AND LATIN
AMERICAN COLONIAL PERIOD
PROGRAM
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Thursday, Oct. 10
1:45
- Welcoming Remarks - Qualia Room
Peder Christiansen, Chair,
Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Texas Tech University
I Gwendolyn T. Sorell, Coordinator , Women's Studies Program,
Texas Tech University
2:00-2:30 Panel I: Defining Our Project - Qualia Room
Organized and Moderated by Amy Williamsen, University of Arizona
Panelists: Ted E. Mc V ay, Texas Tech University Constance Wilkins,
Ohio University Kathleen Regan, University of Portland
Session I-A 2:45-4:30 - Qualia Room
Chair: Genaro perez, Texas Tech University
"Untold Sisters' Stories: Who Should Read Them Now?
Kathleen McIntosh, Westfield State College
"The Role of the Writer in Spanish-American Spiritual Narratives"
Jennifer L. Eich, Loyola Marymount University
"El papel del confesor en el mundo de la escritora del Siglo de
Oro"
Franciscoo J. Martin, California State University, San Marcos
"Rivalry in a Mexican Convent" Sarah Owens, University of
Arizona
Session I-B 2:45-4:30 - Room 06
Chair: Valerie Hegstrom, Brigham Young University
"Oliva Sabuco de Nantes y la poetica de la risa: una mirada femenina
al 'Coloquio del conocimiento de si mismo"'
DliIDaris M. Otero- Torres, Rutgers University
"Humor in the Sacred Allegories of Sor Marcela de San Felix"
Susan M. Smith, University of Virginia J
"Humor, mitologia y politica en Feliciana Enriquez de Guzm1in"
Maria Castro de Moux, United States Naval Academy
"Lasting Laughter: Comic Challenges Posed by Zayas and Castellano"
Amy Williamsen, University of Arizona
Session II-A 4:45-6:00 - Room 06
Special Session organized by Anne J. Cruz, University of Dlinois
at Chicago Chair: Susan I. Stein, Texas Tech University
"A Female De Amicitiae: Sor Violante del Cielo's Sonnet to Belisa"
Adrienne L. Martfu, University of California, Davis
"Beyond Words: Sor Juana's Intimate Dialogue with Maria Luisa
Manrique de Lara"
Ellen Lokos, Barvard University
"Luisa de Carvajal's Female Relations and Male Control"
Anne J. Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago
Session II-B 4:45-6:00 - Qualia Room
Chair: Ellen Anderson, York University
"Isabel/Elizabeth: Political Power, Oratory, and the Rhetoric
of Queenship"
Valerie Hegstrom, Brigham Young University Brandie Siegfried,
Brigham Young University
"Al lector': The Defiant Voice of Iberian Women Authors and the
Prologue in Published Writings before 1670"
Robert V. Taylor, Johns Hopkins University
"Happy Life Made Easier and Safer? Luisa Sigea's Dialogue on Court
versus Countryside"
Edward v. George, Texas Tech University
7:00 Reception - La Quinta Inn
Friday, Oct. 11
Session III 9:30-10:30 - Qualia Room
Chair: Diane S. Wood, Texas Tech University
"Women's
Costume in Golden Age Spain"
Samina Khan, Texas Tech University Julia Talge, Texas Tech University
"Satirical Voices: Francisca Paez de Colindre's Response to Sumptuary
Laws during the Reign of Philip IV"
David G. Harms, Hampden-Sydney College
Session lV 10:45-11:30 Plenary Session I - Qualia Room
Chair: Ted E. McVay, Jr., Texas Tech University
"'Coma me ban mandado y dado larga licencia': The Modalities of
Women's Confessional Autobiography in Early Modem Spain and the
New World"
Alison Weber, University of Virginia
Session V-A 1:00-2:15 - Room 06
Chair: Gwyn Campbell, Washington and Lee University
"The Labyrinth of Maria de Zayas's Desengaiio cualto: 'Tarde llega
el desengaiio' Elizabeth Teresa Howe, Tufts University
"Canonizing the Body: Maria de Zayas's Corporeal Feminism"
Lisa VoUendorf, Miami University
"Vaces e ideologla en 'Estragos que causa el vicio' de Maria de
Zayas"
Beatriz SuMez Briones, Universidade de Vigo
Session V-B 1:00-2:15 - Qualia Room
Chair: Marla Castro de Moux, United States Naval Academy
"Armesinda's
Dream: Leonor de la Cueva's Challenge to the Patriarchy in 'La
firmeza en la ausencia"
Sharon D. Voros, United States Naval Academy
"Love, Friendship, and Power in La .finneza en el ausencia"'
Darci L. Strother, California State University, San Marcos
"'Tierra de en medio': Angela de Acevedo's El muelto disimulado"
Anita K. StoU, Cleveland State University
Session
VI-A 2:30-3:45 - Room 02
Chair: Jennifer Lo Eich, Loyola Marymount University
"Muestra de un nuevo discurso colonial: Santa Rosa de Lima"
Carolina Ibanez-Murpby, University of Arizona
"Sor Maria Manuela: una voz latinoamericana de la Colonia"
Elia J. Annacaoqui- Tipacti, Lawrence University
"Catalina de JesUs Herrera: misticismo y escritura en la Real
Audiencia de Quito" Fernando Iturburu, University of Oregon
Session
VI-B 2:30-3:45 - Room 06
Chair: Sharon Do Voros, United States Naval Academy
"Fragmentación
del Logos a traves de la escritura femenina: El caso de Sor Juana
IDes de la Cruz"
Verónica Grossi, University of Texas at Austin
"Seeds of an American Baroque Aesthetic: Sor Juana Frames the
Encounter" Jeanne L. Gillespie, Southeastern Louisiana University
Session VI-C 2:30-3:45 Qualia Room
Chair: Janet perez, Texas Tech University
"Wounded
Women: A Semiotics of Violence"
Yvonne Jebeoson, University of Hartford Marcia L. Welles, Baroard
College
"The Paradoxes of Beatriz Bernal's Cristalidn de Espana (1545)"
Judith Wbitenack, University of Nevada, Reno
Session
VIl-A 4:00-4:50 Qualia Room
Special Session Organized by Gwyn E. Campbell, Washington and
Lee University Chair: Judith A. Whitenack, University of Nevada,
Reno
"The
Feminine Voice of Social Commentary: Leonor de Meneses's 'El desdeinado
mas firme"
Gwyn E. Campbell, Washington and Lee University
"The Feminine Voice of Literary Commentary: Leonor de Meneses's
'El desdeinado mas firme"
Ellen Anderson, York University
Session
VII-B 4:00-4:50 Room 02
Chair: Alberto Julian perez, Texas Tech University
"Matriherencia
vs. Patrlarcado: Hacia una historia de la literatura femenina
(barroca)"
Marta WaIliser, St. Lawrence University (Madrid)
"Mariana de Carvajal's 'La industria vence desdenes': feliz navidad?"
Nancy Cushing-Danie, Gettysburg College
7:00
Banquet - Delhi Palace Indian Restaurant
Saturday,
Oct. 12
Session VIII 9:00-9:45 Plenary II - Qualia Room
Chair: Ted E. McVay, Jr., Texas Tech University
"Stages
of Expression: Renaissance Feminism and the Comedian"
Teresa Scott Soufas, Tulane University
Session
IX-A 10:00-11:40 - FL 02
Chair: Laura J. Beard, Texas Tech University
"Gender Identity as Performance: The Case of Leonor in Ana Caro's
Valor, agravio y mujer' Kathleen Regan, University of Portland"
La Monja Alferez': Transforming the Gaze in Transvestite Identities"
Sherry Velasco, University of Kamas
"Legs, Lips and Lust: A Re-visioning of Gender roles in the Spanish
Golden Age" Mary Blythe Daniels, Centre College
"Out of the Mouths of 'Babes: Transgender Ventriloquism in Two
Dramas by Ana Caro Mallen"
Deborah A. Dougherty, Alma College
Session
IX-B 10:00-11:40 FL 06
Chair: Kathleen McIntosh, Westfield State College
"The
Devotionary of Constanza de Castilla: Another Late Medieval Woman's
Voice" Constance L. Wilkins, Miami University
"Magdalena de San Jeronimo: la mujer patriarcal (nota sobre el
desorden social del barroco)"
Nieves Romero-Diaz, University of Oregon
"Erotismo y mistica en la obra de Luisa de Carvajal"
Jorge Aladro, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Eating through the Body: Corporeality, Spirituality, and Food
Imagery in Sor Marcela's 'Muerte del Apetito"
Diane J 0 Mulroney, Hope College
Session
IX-C 10:00-11:40 - Qualia Room
Chair: Elizabeth Teresa Howe, Tufts University
"Towards
an Edition of the Novelas amorosas y ejemplares by Maria de Zayas
y Sotomayor"
Julian Olivares, University of Houston
"Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor: A propasito de algunos sonetos incluidos
en las Novelas y Desengalios amorosos"
Marla Jesus Farina Rusto, Universidade de Vigo
"Re-touching the Portrait: Women Writers and the Retrato Motif
in Golden Age Literature"
Elizabeth Royce, Houston Baptist University
"St. Teresa's Season in Hell"
Miriam Ayres, New York University.
1:00-3:00
Panel Discussions - Qualia Room
1:00-1:45
Panel Discussion ll: Discovering, Editing and Publishing Women's
Texts Organized and Moderated by Anita K. Stoll, Cleveland State
University Junan Olivares, University of Houston Ver6nica Grossi,
University of Texas at Austin
2:00-2:45 Panel Discussion ill: Teaching and Politics: Strategies
for Effecting Real Change in the Academy Organized and Moderated
by Valerie Hegstrom, Brigham Young University Valerie Hegstrom,
Brigham Young University, Jeanne Gillespie, Southeastern Louisiana
University, Alison Weber, University of Virginia
