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Sarah Beckjord
associate professor of hispanic studies
Education and Academic Degrees:
BA. Harvard University; M.Phil., M.A., and Ph.D. Columbia University
Fields of Research:
Latin American Literature and Culture, with an emphasis on the colonial period and 19th century; Historiography; Narrative theory
Publications
Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2007.
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“Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y la incipiente conciencia criolla.” Book chapter in Poéticas de lo criollo: Inestabilidad semántica y heterogeneidad identitaria. La transformación del concepto ‘criollo’ en las letras hispaonamericanas (siglos XVI-XIX), ed. David Solodkow and Juan Vitulli. Forthcoming from Beatriz Viterbo.
“Totems and Taboos Revisited: Roberto Matta and the New World Tradition.” Matta: Making the Invisible Visible. Exhibit co-curator. Chestnut Hill, MA: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2004.
"Respuesta a Hugo en la novela antiesclavista cubana: Petrona y Rosalía de Tanco y Bosmeniel" Tradición y actualidad de la literatura iberoamericana. Actas del XXX Congreso Internacional del Instituto de Literatura Iberoamericana. Ed. Pamela Bacarisse. Tomo I. Pittsburgh: IILI, 1996.
"Con sal y ají y tomates: Las redes textuales en la Historia verdadera de Bernal Díaz del Castillo" Revista iberoamericana LXI:170-171 (Enero-Junio 1995).
Works in Progress
Sarah Beckjord's next book project will consist of a study of the interplay of science, religion, and colonial experience in early European endeavors to account for indigenous cultures in the Americas. She also has planned a study of 19th-century historical fiction in Cuba entitled Translation and the Tradition: Fictions of Identity and Empire in the Caribbean.
Selected Lectures and Presentations
“Signposts of Fiction, Territories of History.” Program of the Society for the Study of Narrative session, MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, December 2007.
“Bernal Díaz and the Territories of History.” Program of the Division on Colonial Literature, MLA Annual Convention, December 27-30, 2006.
“Race, Culture and Memory in the Cuban Literary Tradition.” Invited lecture, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government Cuba Seminar, March 15, 2006.
“Infidels, Heretics, and History according to Las Casas.” Program of the Division on Colonial Literature, MLA Annual Convention, December 27-30, 2005.
“Informing ‘Indians’: Science and Religion in the Histories of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo.” Colonial Americas Study Association Symposium, Bogotá, Colombia, August 8-11, 2005.
“Science and Religion in the Early Spanish Historiography of America.” Society of Early Americanists, Old Town Alexandria, VA, March 31-April 2, 2005.
“Discursive Borderlines in the Early Chronicles of the Indies,” Program of the Division on Colonial Latin American Literatures. MLA Convention, December 2004.
“Fictions of Identity and Empire in Colonial 19th-century Cuba.” 2004 Atlantic World Conference, U North Carolina, Greensboro, September 17-18, 2004.
“(Dis)figuring Traditions: History and Legend in the Prose of Ramón de Palma.” Progtram of the Division on Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900. MLA Convention, December 29, 2002.
“Soothsayer or Sage? The Historian and Historical Knowledge according to Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo”. Invited lecture, University of California, Los Angeles, February 4, 2002.
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