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Elizabeth Rhodes
associate professor of hispanic studies
Prof. Rhodes is currently writing a chapter, tentatively titled "Teresa of Avila, Cartographer," for the volume Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality. Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900, Eds. Laurence Lux-Sterritt (Université 'Aix-Marseille I) and Carmen Mangion (U. London) to be published by Palgrave. It will chart the innovations of Teresa's self-representation in the context of scientific discoveries in the fields of cartography and the measurement of time. Her translation/edition of stories by baroque author María de Zayas, done with Margaret Greer at Duke, will be available from the U. Chicago Press in June 2009. She is revising her book manuscript about the Desengaños amorosos by María de Zayas, which will go out to readers this summer.
This semester she has continued work on her project of early modern saints' lives, still in the phase of data collection and analysis. Her research assistant, Hannah Donoghue (BC'09) has helped in that endeavor as well as re-formatting clips and constructing links for Prof. Rhodes's classes on film, to be offered in the fall of 2010.
At graduation in May, Prof. Rhodes will celebrate significant accomplishments of some of her students: Victoria Gardner, now teaching at Vanderbilt University, will be awarded her doctorate; Hannah Donoghue will graduate with a BA having finished her excellent honors thesis, "Paradigms of Representation in Films of Immigration"; and Jennifer Castillo will graduate with a BA having completed her Community Research Project with Prof. Rhodes, on education about domestic violence for Latina students at Boston College. Stacy Brown (BC '08 and Prof. Rhodes's research assistant from 2005-08) will return from Kenya to Boston, where she will begin her studies at Boston University Medical School.
Education and Academic Degrees:
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Bryn Mawr College; B.A., Westhampton College, University of Richmond, VA
Fields of Research:
Early modern Spanish literature; theology and religious culture; women's studies and feminist theory
Recent Publications and Papers:
"Mysticism and History: The Case of Spain's Golden Age." Teresa of Avila and Spanish Mysticism. Ed. Alison Weber. New York: MLA, forthcoming, 2008.
"To the Greater Glory of God: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, 1566-1616." Dallo Spirito alla Struttura: Le Constituzioni e lo sviluppo della cultura gesuitica. Ed. James F. Pratt, S.J. Rome: Jesuit Historical Institute, 2008.
"The Economics of Salvation in El esclavo del demonio." Bulletin of the Comediantes, 59.2 (2008): 281-302.
"Gender in the Night. Juan de la Cruz y Cecilia del Nacimiento." Calíope 13.2. (2007): 39-61.
María de Zayas y Sotomayor. Tales of Exemplary Love and Tales of Undeceiving Love: Six Novellas from Baroque Spain. Trans. and Ed. Margaret Greer and Elizabeth Rhodes. Chicago: U Chicago Press, forthcoming 2007.
"Mysticism and History: The Case of Spain's Golden Age." Teresa of Avila and Spanish Mysticism. Ed. Alison Weber. New York: MLA, forthcoming in 2007.
"The Mystical Night of St. John of the Cross and Cecilia del Nacimiento." "En desagravio de las damas": Essays on Women's Poetry of the Golden Age. Ed. Julián Olivares. Newark DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2007 (forthcoming).
"Join the Jesuits, See the World: Women and the Society of Jesus." The Jesuits II. Cultures, Sciences and the Arts, 1540-1773. Eds. John W. O'Malley et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 33-47.
"Join the Jesuits, See the World: Women and the Society of Jesus." The Jesuits II. Cultures, Sciences and the Arts, 1540-1773. Eds. John W. O'Malley et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 33-47.
"Mary Magdalen: A Literary Archeology." Center for Twenty-first Century Studies. Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Nov., 2006.
"Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza: To the Greater Glory of God." The Jesuit Constitutions, Anniversary Conference. Gregorian University, Rome. Oct. 2006.
"Redressing Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer." Hispanic Review 73.3 (2005): 309-28.
Contributor, Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Univ. of Oxford, British Academy and Oxford UP, 2004.
"Spain's Sonnet 'No me mueve, mi Dios,' Antidote to Mel Gibson." The Gifford Lecture. Tufts University, Boston, MA, April 2004.
"Sacred Space in María de Zayas's Desengaños." International Conference on Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Univ. of Exeter, Exeter, England. April 2003.
"Gender and the Monstrous in El burlador de Sevilla" MLN 117.2 (2002): 267-85.
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Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature (2 vols.) London: Greenwood Press, 2002 (Contributor) |
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This Tight Embrace: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (1566-1614). Milwaukee: Marquette Univ. Press, 2000. |
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"'What's in a Name': On Teresa of Ávila's Book." The Mystical Gesture: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Spiritual Culture. Ed. Robert Boenig. Burlington VT: Ashgate Press, 2000. 79-106. |
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"Y yo dije 'Sí Señor': Ana Domenge and the Barcelona Inquisition, 1610." In Women and the Inquisition. Ed. Mary Giles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1999. 134-54. |
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