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For the Spring 2010 semester, I was one of the fortunate recipients of a fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, RI. To see examples of what I'm working on, click here for the slides from my JCB Fellows talk on 17 March, 2010, an overview of the types of friendships that emerge in the social world of human relations and the cosmological order of agricultural and mineralogical essays into New World nature. For a reading of the gendered subjectivities of soils, seeds, minerals, mines and the human and divine agencies in whom they find cosmic sympathy, click here for the slides from the talk that I delivered as part of the Women Writers Project: Women in the Archives Conference, held on 24 April, 2010 at Brown. That work, in conjunction with research trips to the national archives of Bolivia and Peru (summer 2010 and 2011) helped me to produce the following chapter. My CV helps to show what I'm working on now. Qualifying List Having experienced multiple incarnations, my final exam list can be found here. Here are some sample questions and supplementary questions that I drafted. I happily passed my doctoral qualifying exams in October, 2008, submitted my dissertation proposal in January 2009 (the day before I flew to Havana), and officially became ABD upon passing the Portuguese reading competency exam in September 2009. I am deeply grateful to my dissertation and exam committee, and Monica Rector in the Portuguese department, for their flexibility and consideration. Major: Philip Gura, Rosa Perelmuter, and Tim Marr (director) Minor: Jessica Wolfe (exam chair) and Mary Floyd-Wilson MA Thesis "Literary Transculturations: The Erotic Energy of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Edward Taylor's Religious Verse" Director: Philip Gura Reader: Eliza Richards Coursework Proseminar in American Literature, beginning through 1900; Philip Gura, Fall 2005 19th Century American Poetry; Eliza Richards, Fall 2005 Christian and Classical Influences on Pope and Swift; Tom Stumpf, Fall 2005 Proseminar in Renaissance Literature; Jessica Wolfe, Spring 2006 Aesthetics of the Baroque; Rosa Perelmuter, Fall 2006 Proseminar in 18th Century and Feminist Theory; Ruth Salvaggio, Spring 2007 William Shakespeare, Political Theorist; Laurie Shannon (Duke), Spring 2007 Introduction to Yucatec Maya; David Mora Marín, Spring 2007 Portuguese I and II; Regina Santos and Marcelo Amorim; Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 Love and Death in the American Novel: Revisited; Philip Gura, Fall 2007 Polytropic Romances; Jessica Wolfe and Marsha Collins (audit), Fall 2007 Colonial and Nineteenth Century Latin American Literature (audit); Rosa Perelmuter, Fall 2007 Survey of Indigenous Mesoamerican Languages (audit); David Mora Marín, Fall 2007 Seventeenth-Century Religious Thought (directed reading); Philip Gura, Spring 2008 Yucatec Maya Level II; Ismael May May (weeks 1-3) and John Tuxill (weeks 4-6), Summer 2009 Yucatec Maya Level III; Fidencio Briseño Chel Teaching Position For a statement on my beliefs about teaching, click here. |