3rd Annual Conference on Woman Writers Medieval And Early Modern Spain And Colonial Latin America

Loyola Marymount University
October 22 - 24, 1998

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CO-ORGANIZED BY:
Jennifer L. Eich (Loyola Marymount University) and Felisa Guillen (Occidental College)

SPONSORED BY:
Dr. Joseph Jabbra, Academic Vice President, Loyola Marymount University
Dr. Kenyon ChaD, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Loyola Marymount University
Dr. David Axeen, Dean of the Faculty, Occidental College The Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education and Culture and United States' Universities
Dr. Arne O 'Healy, Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Loyola Marymount University Department of Spanish and French Literary and Cultural Studies, Occidental College
Dr. Nancy Jabbra, Professor and Director of Women's Studies, Loyola Marymount University

We'd also like to acknowledge the special service of the following individuals:
Salvador C. Fernandez
Marguerite E. Lally
Maria Teresa Venegas

and the kind cooperation of our chairs:
Rebeca Acevedo
Shirley L. Arora
Jose nacio Badenes
Gwyn E. Campbell
Mary E. Giles
Diane Hartunian
Julie Greer Johnson
Doreen O'Connor-Gomez
Alicia Partnoy
Salvador Velazco
Sharon D. Voros
Judith A. Whitenack

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THURSDAY AFTERNOON

Spanish I: "La evolucion de '10 femenino' en la literatura femenina espafiola" St. Robert's Hall 354

Chaired by: Diane Hartunian, Loyola Marymount University

2:00 "Evolucion del canon petrarquista en la representacion imaginistica del cuerpo femenino" Maria Pilar Manero, Universitat de Barcelona

2:30 " El esclavo de su esclavo de Mariana de Carvajal y la cuesti6n de autoridad en la politica sexual del Barroco" Nieves Romero-Diaz, University of Oregon

3:00 "Identifying the Feminine in Familial Discourse: The Letters of Maria Vela y Cueto, Cistercian Nun, to her Brothers, Lorenzo and Diego" Susan Laningham Smith, University of Arkansas

3:30 COFFEE BREAK

4:00 "El concepto de sumisi6n en las escritoras clarisas espafiolas del Siglo de Oro" Francisco I. Martin, California State University, San Marcos

4:30 "Religion, Class, and the Feminine in Two Plays by Lope de Vega" Pamela I. Morgan, University of California, San Diego

 

Spanish-American I: "Conventual Manipulation of Conventional Discourses of Power" St. Robert's Hall 355

Chaired by: Doreen O'Connor-Gomez, Whittier College

2:00 "Envidia y libre albedrio en Sor Iuana Ines de la Cruz: La construcci6n de un 'espacio subjetivo' " Pablo Brescia, University of California, Santa Barbara

2:30 "Catalina or Antonio? The Transatlanticf[ransgender Narrative of La Monja Alferez" 1- Chloe Rutter-Iensen, University of California, San Diego

3:00 "'Ha de ser santa o gran mala': 'Lo extremo' as Self-Defense in Ursula Swirez's Relacion .autobiogrilflca" r Karen Dollinger, The Ohio State University

3:30 COFFEE BREAK

4:00 " Algunos apuntes de la vida y virtudes de la V.M. Antonia del Espiritu Santo: Poder a traves del discurso religioso en el convento colonial" Erica W. Gonzales, The Ohio State University

4:30 "Piedras y olivas: Sermones panegiricos y el juego de genero y raza en el Convento de Corpus Christi" Monica Diaz, Indiana University

5:30- 7:30 RECEPTION - Mclntosh Center, Sullivan Hall

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FRIDAY MORNING

Spanish II: "Cross-dressing and Desire in Peninsular Letters"
St. Robert's Hall 355

Chaired by: Jose Ignacio Badenes, Loyola Marymount University

9:00 "Pelagia/Pelagius: The Story of a Transvestite Saint" Elizabeth Page, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

9:30 "Cross-dressing and Desire in Beatriz Bernal's Cristalian de Espana and Maria de Zayas' Amar solo por vencer " Sherry Velasco, University of Kansas

10:00 "'No se nace hombre, se llega a serlo': La construccion de la masculinidad en la autobiografia .! de una travesti del siglo XVII, Vida i sueesos de la Monja Alferez" Jose R. Cartagena-Calderon, Stanford University I

10:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 The Equivocal esquiva: Lisis of Toledo in Leonor de Meneses' El desdeiiado ml1sfirme" Gwyn E. Campbell, Washington and Lee University .

11:30 "Drag and the Subversion of Gender in Two Spanish Golden Age Dramas" Marivel T. Danielson, University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor

 

Spanish-American II : "(Wo)men's History in the Making"
St. Robert's Hall 354

Chaired by: Mary E. Giles, California State University, Sacramento

9:00 "Las carmelitas descalzas: Letras para Dios y para el mundo"
Manuel Ramos Medina, Centro de Estudios de Historia de Mexico, Condumex.

9:30"Crossing Boundaries: Defining the Field of Female Religious Writing in Colonial Latin America" Kathleen A. Myers, Indiana University.

10:00 "At the Limits of Good Taste: Josefa Ordofiez, Female Notoriety, and the Negotiations of Cultural Boundaries in Colonial Mexico" .Linda Curcio-Nagy, University of Nevada -Reno

10:30 COFFEE BREAK.

11:00 "Writing from a Hidden World: Spirituality and Anonymity" Asuncion Lavrin, Arizona State University .

11:30 Response: Mary E. Giles, California State University, Sacramento.

 

Spanish III: "Hispanic Mystics and (Re)Visionary Discourse"
St. Robert's Hall 358.

Chaired by: Sharon D. Voros, United States Naval Academy

9:30 "Saved by the Bell: A Tintinnabulary Christ in a Vision of Tecla Servent" .Ronald E. Surtz, Princeton University

10:00 " Ascetismo, moralidad y politica en la obra de Maria de Agreda" .Lucia Guzzi-Harrison, Southeastern Louisiana University

10:30 COFFEE BREAK.

11:00 "In the Right Place at the Right Time (?): Catarina de San Juan's Visions and the Jesuit Missionary Efforts" Jeanne L. Gillespie, Southeastern Louisiana University.

11:30 "El discurso mistico en losAfectos espirituales de Francisca Josefa de Castillo" Ivette N. Hernandez, University of California, Irvine.

 

Spanish-American III: "Looking for a Room of Her Own: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz I" St. Robert's Hall 357.

Chaired by: Salvador Velazco, Claremont-McKenna College

9:30 "The Genius of Limits and the Limits of Genius: Sor Juana IDes de la Cruz" .Virginia Bouvier, University of Maryland at College Park

10:00 "Los empeilos de una casa y los sitios de resistencia en la significaci6n" .Shannon Butler, The Ohio State University

10:30 COFFEE BREAK.

11:00 "Sor Juana Ines dela Cruz: Marginacion multiple" Ella J. Armacanqul-TIpactl, Lawrence Uruverslty.

11:30 "La conveniencia que hay de Armonia a Hermosura: Hacia una aproximaci6n poetica arm6nica en la obra de Sor Juana IDes de la Cruz" Mario A. Ortiz, Indiana University.

12:15 - 1:45 LUNCH (On one's own)

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FRIDAY AFTERNOON

Spanish IV: "'The Deceitful Nature of Women: Authors and Subjects in Peninsular Theater" St. Robert's Hall 355

Chaired by: Gwyn E. Campbell, Washington & Lee University.

2:00 "No hay forrnar de mujeres': Pinning Down Sexuality in Women's Comedia" Lisa Vollendorf, Wayne State University .

2:30 "AI tribunal de amor apelo': Leonor de la Cueva and the Language of Law" Sharon D. Voros, United States Naval Academy.

3:00 "This Ain't Your Father's Allegory" L./' Susan M. Smith, Hampden Sydney College

3:30 COFFEE BREAK

4:00 "Insistencia en la resistencia: La ginegeneris en el espacio escenico" Maria Jose Delgado-Berlanga, Kent State University, Stark

4:30 "Does Money Matter? An Exploration of the Money/Marriage Connection in Azevedo's Dicha y desdicha del juego y devocion de la Virgen" Darci Strother, California State University, San Marcos

 

Spanish-American IV: "The Synthesis of Difference: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz II" St. Robert's Hall 354

Chaired by: Julie Greer Johnson, The University of Georgia

2:00 "Under Cover of Devotion: The Union of Religion and Science in Sor Juana" ~ Grady C. Wray, Indiana University

2:30 "La convivencia de los discursos herrnetista y cientifico en la obra de Sor Juana Ines de la Croz" Javier Frons, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

3:00 "Alegoria, intertextualidad y discurso politico en Sor Juana Ines de la Cmz" Veronica Grossi, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

3:30 COFFEE BREAK

4:00 "Sor Juana's Villancicos to St. Catherine: A Revisionist Celebration of Women" Margaret Parker, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

4:30 "A Revision of Beauty and Power in a loa by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" Shawn Smith, Indiana University.

 

Spanish V: "Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor"
St. Robert's Hall 358.

Chaired by: Felisa Guillen, Occidental College

2:00 "The engailos and desengailos of Clothing in the Exemplary Novels of Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor" Karen Hall Zetrouer, Colby College.

2:30 "Ana Abarca de Bolea, Maria de Zayas, and the Myth of Feminine Evil" Judith A. Whitenack, University of Nevada, Reno

3:00 "Engendering Early Modem Discourse: Subjectivity and Syntactic Empathy in Maria de Zayas" Amy R. Williamsen, University of Arizona .

3:30 COFFEE BREAK

4:00 "La letra con sangre entra': The Didactic Use of Violence in Maria de Zayas" .Nancy Cushing-Daniels, Gettysburg College

4:30 "'His secret ways are incomprehensible': Camila, Roseleta, and the Discourse of Martyrdom in .La mils infame venganza and E/ verdugo de su esposa" Iluminada Amat, University of North Carolina, Greensboro .

 

Spanish-American V: "Legal and Literary Constructions of Women's Identity in the New World" St. Robert's Hall 357 .

Chaired by: Alicia Partnoy, Loyola Marymount University

2:00 "Celestina's Legacy in Colonial Mexico: Legal and Literary 'Casos' (1617-76)" .Doreen M. O'Connor-G6mez, Whittier College

2:30 " A Bid for Membership in the Enchanted State: Leonor de Caceres and the Mexican Inquisition" .Margaret I. Mott, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

3:00 "Constructing Women from Their Fragmented Bodies: Medical Discourses and Practices in Late Colonial Peru" .Alcira Duefias, The Ohio State University

3:30 COFFEE BREAK

4:00 "Contradicción y cuestionamiento en la Relacion autobiogrilfica de Ursula Suarez" Meghan M. Wysong, The Ohio State University.

4:30 "'La Rosa entre espinas': Descubriendo el Otro en la Re/acion autobiogrilfica de Ursula Suarez" Melissa M. Logue, The Ohio State University.

5:30- 6:30 PLENARY SESSION (1) St Robert's Hall Auditorium .Following Santa Teresa: Early Modern Women and Religious Authority Stacey Schlau, West Chester University.

7:00 -10:00 BANQUET - The Hill, Malone Student Center, 4th Floor.

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SATURDAY MORNING

Spanish VI: "Visiones de mujeres hispanas y su papel en la historia" St. Robert's Hall 355

Chaired by: Judith A. Whitenack, University of Nevada - Reno

8:30 "The Ladies's Peace, 1529: A Gendered Reappropriation ofHistory" L " Alain Saint-Saens, Dowling College

9:00 "Maternal Gracian? Luisa de Padilla's Advice to the Aragonese Nobility" Emilie L. Bergmann, University of California, Berkeley

9:30 "Juan de Flores y el triunfo de las mujeres arriba" Maria Caba-Rios, Princeton University

10:00 "Los escritos de Isabel de Guevara y de Cristobal Colon: Dos perspectivas de genero" Ana Maria Gonzalez, University ofMassachusetts, Amherst.

10:30 "Court Testimony and Women's Self-Representation in Colonial Spanish America" .Rebecca Marquis, Indiana University

 

Spanish-American VI: "Women's Worlds and Women's Words: Sor Juana III" St. Robert's Hall 354

Chaired by: Shirley L. Arora, University of California, Los Angeles

8:30 "To Create and To Be Created: Feminine Portraiture of the Colonial Period" Julie Greer Johnson, The University of Georgia.

9:00 "Apollo-smiter, Muse-silencer, Sideshow-barker, and Scamp: Images ofMen in Epistolary V romances by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" Amanda Powell, University of Oregon

9:30 "Letras para una carta: San Bernardo, Serafina y Sor Juana" Sara Poot-Herrera, University of California, Santa Barbara

10:00 "Sor Juana in the Colonial Echo Chamber" Nina M. Scott, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

10:30 "Sor Juana, Aristotle, and Female Self-Fashioning" Frederick Luciani, Colgate University.

11:30- 12:30 PLENARY SESSION (D) Hilton Center 300ABC

Women's Words. Women's Power: Conflict and Resistance in Golden Age Spain Mary Elizabeth Perry , Occidental College.

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON

12:45- 1:30 LUNCH AND MEETING The Hill, Malone Student Center
"So, what's next?"

1:45 -3:00 Pedagogy Session:"Teaching and Being Taught: Using Our Research in ' .the Classroom"

The Hill, Malone Student Center

Chair: Rebeca Acevedo, Loyola Marymount University.

Participants:
Nancy Cushing-Daniels, Gettysburg College;
Lisa Vollendorf, Wayne State University;
Amy Williamsen, University of Arizona

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NAME	AFFILIATION	SESSION
Rebeca Acevedo	Loyola Marymount University	Pedagogy, Sat. p.m. (chair)
Iluminada Amat	U of No Carolina, Greensboro	Spanish V
Elia J. Armacanqui Tipacti	Lawrence University	Spanish American III
Shirley L. Arora	U of California, Los Angeles	Spanish American VI (chair)
Josd Ignacio Batteries	Loyola Marymount University	Spanish II (chair)
Emilie L. Bergmann	Univ of California, Berkeley	Spanish VI
Virginia Bouvier	U of Maryland, College Park	Spanish American III
Pablo Brescia	U of California, Santa Barbara	Spanish American I
Shannon Butter	The Ohio State University	Spanish American III
Maria Caba Rios	Princeton University	Spanish VI
Gwyn Campbell	Washington & Lee University	Spanish 11
11	Spanish IV (chair)
Josd R. Cartagena Calder6n	Stanford University	Spanish 11
Linda Curcio Nagy	University of Nevada, Reno	Spanish American II
Nancy Cushing Daniels	Gettysburg College	Spanish V
	Pedagogy, Sat. p.m.
Marivel T. Danielson	U of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Spanish II
Maria J. Delgado Berlanga	Kent State University, Stark	Spanish IV
Monica Diaz	Indiana University	Spanish American I
Karen Dellinger	The Ohio State University	Spanish American I
Alcim Dueflas	The Ohio State University	Spanish American V
Javier Fruns	U of Massachusetts, Amherst	Spanish American IV
Mary E. Giles	California SU, Sacramento	Spanish American II
Jeanne L. Gillespie	Southeastern Louisiana Univ	Spanish III
Erica W. GonzAlcs	The Ohio State University	Spanish American I
Ana Maria GonzAlez	U of Massachusetts, Amherst	Spanish VI
Veronica Grossi	U o f No Carolina, Greensboro	Spanish American IV
Felisa Guilldn	Occidental College	Spanish V (chair)
Lucia Guzzi Harrison	Southeastern Louisiana Univ	Spanish III
Diane Hartunian	Loyola Marymount University	Spanish I (chair)
Ivette N. HernAndez	University of California, Irvine	Spanish III
Julic Greer Johnson	The Univ of Georgia, Athens	Spanish American VI
11	Spanish American IV (chair)
Asunci6n Lavrin	Arizona State University	Spanish American 11
Melissa M. Logue	The Ohio State University	Spanish American V
Frederick Luciani	Colgate University	Spanish American VI
Maria Pilar Manero	Universitat de Barcelona	Spanish I
Rebecca Marquis	Indiana University	Spanish VI
Francisco J. Martin	California SU, San Marcos	Spanish I
Pamela J. Morgan	Univ of California, San Diego	Spanish I
Margaret 1. Mou	U of Massachusetts, Amherst	Spanish American V
Kathleen A. Myers	Indiana University	Spanish American II
Doreen O'Connor Gomez	Whittier College	Spanish American V
11	Spanish American I (chair)
Mario A. Ortiz	Indiana University	Spanish American III
Elizabeth Page	U of Massachusetts, Amherst	Spanish II