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Libertinism and Baroque Performativity in the 17th Century
The International one-day symposium organized by the IDeA Research Group (RITS department of drama and audiovisual arts,
Erasmushogeschool Brussel) in collaboration with VUB and Université de Paris X-Nanterre, HAR Research group
will take place on Tuesday November 16th 2010, in Rits, Brussels.
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Bolívar Echeverría
We are deeply sorry to have to inform you about the passing of our colleague, team member and good friend, Bolívar Echeverría. The Hispanic Baroque Project and its members pay appropriate homage to his person and his intellectual legacy.
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Disciplinas se encuentran en torno al barroco latinoamericano
Dr. Fernando Sancho Caparrini, mathematician and computer scientist of the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Sevilla gave a talk about our transdisciplinary research project during the opening conference “Barroco, matemáticas y redes sociales o cómo usar la computadora para entender la cultura” at the University of Costa Rica.
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Annual Graduate Student Conference
"Sailing Away: Transatlantic and Transmediterranean Representations
Across Early Modern Worlds"
The Duke University Department of Romance Studies will host its annual Graduate Student Conference this year September 10-11, 2010 in Durham, North Carolina
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Update: I Congreso Ibero-Asiático
de Hispanistas Siglo de Oro
The Hispanic Baroque announced last February the I Congreso Ibero-Asiático de Hispanistas Siglo de Oro (The First Ibero-Asian Congress of Hispanists Golden Age). This congress will take place in Delhi, India November 9-12, 2010. We are providing the link with the information on the program, registration and organizers.
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Video Update
The lectures by Dr. Cristina Osswald and Shawn Graham done on March 11, 2010 and December 8, 2009, are now available
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Beatriz de Alba-Koch
Associate Professor ,
Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies,
University of Victoria
- Coordinator of the Programs in Latin American Studies
- Coordinator and founder of the Latin America Research Group
- Member of the editorial board of the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos
Current Hispanic Baroque Research
General Research Interests
Recent Publications
Current Hispanic Baroque Research:
Studying how literary genres such as enigmas and sueños can be understood as technologies of culture. She is particularly interested in enriching the canon of Hispanic literature through the recuperation, edition, and study of lesser-known satirical and allegorical texts from New Spain.
General Research Interests:
Focuses on colonial and nineteenth-century Mexican literature. More specifically, she studies:
- Enlightenment novohispano appropriations of Golden Age genres such as the picaresque, female quixotism and satirical allegories in the works of José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi and his contemporaries
- Enlightenment thought and sixteenth-century indigenous accounts of the conquest of México, particularly in the work of Francisco Javier Clavijero
- Mexican liberalism and the construction of a national literature in the works of Ignacio Manuel Altamirano and his contemporaries
Recent Publications:
Published the monograph Ilustrando la Nueva España: Texto e imagen en El Periquillo Sarniento de Fernández de Lizardi (U de Extremadura, 1999) and El Quijote en Hispanoamérica (siglo XIX), a special number for Siglo Diecinueve, 5 (1999). Some of her more recent articles are:
"La vieja beata en La Quijotita de Fernández de Lizardi: Una celestina a lo divino." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 32.1 (2007): 123-36.
"Providence, Indigenous Protagonism, and Enlightenment: Clavijero's Rendition of the Conquest of México." Lumen 24 (2005): 49-63.
"Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Liberalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Indigenismo in Altamirano." Hispanófila 142 (2004): 101-16.
Beatriz de Alba-Koch
Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 3045 STN CSC
Victoria, BC
V8W 3P4
tel: (250) 721-7419
fax: (250) 721-6608
email: albakoch@uvic.ca
