Maria Willstedt, Ph.D.
Department of English
Department of Spanish
Education
Ph.D. in Spanish, Yale University
M.A. in Spanish, Yale University
TEFL Certificate, Center for Intensive English Studies, Florida State University
M.A. and B.A. in Latin and Romance languages, 脜bo Akademi University (Turku, Finland)
Practice Areas
- Cultural semantics in first and second-language acquisition environment. Reading comprehension strategies.
- Framed-tale narrative tradition (Eastern to Western, medieval to modern).
- Female characters and the female body in medieval and early modern Spanish literature.
- Don Quixote (relationship between truth, reality, and fiction; self-determination and hybridity; melancholy and justice).
- Spanish medievalism and medievalism more broadly, especially in popular culture.
Publications and Media Placements
Articles
"Gregorio Mayans y el manuscrito Add. 9939 de la British Library de Londres," Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 92.6 (2015): 619-634.
"La poes铆a medieval y los or铆genes de la historiograf铆a literaria nacional: los 翱谤铆genes de la poes铆a castellana (1754) de Luis Jos茅 Vel谩zquez." Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos 41 (2007): 323-343.
Reviews and Translations
Review: Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature. Ja茅n, Isabel and Julien Jacques Simon, editors. New York: Oxford UP, 2016. In Bulletin of the Comediantes 69.1 (2017): 151-154.
Review: Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain. Boynton, Susan. New York: Oxford UP, 2011. In AARHMS (American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain) Newsletter. March 2012.
Translation: Zaid, Gabriel. "La carretilla alfonsina." In Essayists on the Essay: Four Centuries of Commentary. Ed. by Carl H. Klaus and Ned Stuckey-French. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2012. 125-128.
Review: De La Mancha a la pantalla: Aventuras cinematogr谩ficas del Ingenioso Hidalgo. Espa帽a, Rafael de. Barcelona: Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2007. In Anuario de Estudios Cervantinos 5 (2009): 371-373.
Translation: Menocal, Mar铆a Rosa. "Del verdadero autor del Quijote鈥� seguido de otras tragedias." Ed. Eduardo Subirats. Am茅rico Castro y la revisi贸n de la memoria. Madrid: Ediciones Libertarias, 2003.
Review: The Kharjas: A Critical Bibliography. Hitchcock, Richard and Consuelo L贸pez Morillas. Supplement 1. Research Bibliographies & Checklists, 20.1. London: Grant & Culler, 1996. In Al-Masaq 13 (2001): 141-143.
Selected Conferences and Presentations
"Women Writers at the Mirror: Marguerite de Navarre and Mar铆a de Zayas Reflect on the Adulterous Wife. A Comparison Reading between Heptameron 32 and 顿别蝉别苍驳补帽辞 4." Hamilton College, April 15, 2018.
"From Fairy Tale to Novella: The Substitute Bride Motif in Mar铆a de Zayas." Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 30-April 1, 2017.
"Moorish Girls and Cross-Dressing Pages: Chasing the Nymph in Cervantes's Don Quixote." Hamilton College "Highlighting the Humanities" conference series, November 12, 2015.
"Mart铆n Sarmiento: A Medievalist at the Court of the Spanish Bourbon Kings." 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 14-17, 2015.
"From Castilian to Spanish to Spanglish: A Historical Example of Translation versus Globalization." Translation versus Globalization Symposium. UNC Charlotte Center City, NC, February 20-21, 2015.
"Pascual de Gayangos and the Spanish Middle Ages: The Arabist Perspective." 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 2007.
"Excessive Exemplarity: The Immured Wife in Mar铆a de Zayas." 122nd MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2006.
"Spain's Early Medievalism: The Work of Tom谩s Antonio S谩nchez (1725-1802)." 20th Annual International Conference on Medievalism. Towson University, Baltimore, MD, October 14-15, 2005.
"Florebit amygdalus et impinguabitur locusta: Covarrubias y la interpretaci贸n." Symposium "Voces de Covarrubias." King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New York University, March 1-2, 2002.
"Strategies for teaching Cervantes's Don Quixote." Teaching staff of the Literature Humanities Course at Columbia University, March 27, 2000. Invited presentation.
Service
Senior MLA field bibliographer. Spanish and Italian sections. 2006-