Christie Cole

• Spanish 102, First Year Spanish II
• Spanish 201, Second Year Spanish I
• Spanish 308, Spanish Conversation
• Spanish 309, Spanish Composition
• Spanish 420, Early Spanish Literature and Culture. Reading and Writing against the Grain: Social Justice in Early Modern Spanish Literature
• Spanish 421, Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature and Culture
• Spanish 462, Seminar in Hispanic Literature and Culture. Don Quijote: The First Modern Novel and its Cultural Legacy

Publications:

“‘Yo nací libre’: Foregrounding Women’s Agency in Don Quixote through Music Playlists.” Teaching Social Justice through Early Modern Spanish Literature and Cultures. Ed. Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas, Erin Cowling, and Ana Mendez-Oliver. (Accepted)

“Miracle IX: El clérigo simple / The Simple Cleric: The Wisdom of a Dullard.” Maria Mediatrix: Gonzalo de Berceo’s Milagros de Nuestra Señora. Ed. Paul Larson and Paul Nelson. (Under Review)

“Mechanisms of Wonder: The Performance of Marvels in Don Quixote Part II.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 98.1 (2021): 23-38.

“An Ordinary Hero: Humanizing the Literary Icon in Andrucha Waddington’s Lope.” eHumanista 41 (2019): 202-211.

 “Marvelous Deception in the Early Modern Entremés.” (In progress)

Presentations:

“‘Nunca vistas locuras’: The Performance of Wonder in Don Quixote II.62.” The South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Conference. Corpus Christi, TX, October 12-14, 2023.

“Scenes for a Wunderkammer: Wonderful Staging in Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Las fortunas de Andrómeda y Perseo.” Invited Speaker in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese’s Literature Colloquium Series. Miami University, Oxford, OH, January 27, 2022.

“Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Staged Wunderkammer: Wonderful Scenography in Las fortunas de Andrómeda y Perseo.” The South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Conference. Houston, TX, October 8-10, 2020. (Postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19)

“‘Todo lo nuevo aplace’: Episodes of Recounted Wonder in Lope de Rueda’s La tierra de Jauja and Miguel de Cervantes’s El retablo de las maravillas.” The South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Conference. Little Rock, AR, October 25, 2019.

“The Spectacular Juan Rana: Marvelous Deception and the Baroque Entremés Celebrity.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT) Symposium on Golden Age Theater. El Paso, TX, April 13, 2019.

“Performing Wonder: The Enchanted Head as Marvelous Mechanism in Don Quixote Part II.” Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Conference. Toronto, ON, March 17, 2019.

“Mechanisms of Wonder: The Performance of Marvels in Don Quixote Part II.” Invited speaker in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese’s Literature Colloquium Series. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March 1, 2019.

“Becoming Felipe de África: A Moroccan Prince’s Marvelous Conversion in Lope de Vega’s El bautismo del príncipe de Marruecos.” The South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Conference. San Antonio, TX, October 12, 2018.

“‘Todo lo nuevo aplace’: Marvelous Deception in the Entremés.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC). Lexington, KY, April 21, 2018.

“Lope de Vega’s Wonderful Re-Presentation of Spanish History on Stage.” Invited participant in Indiana University’s Renaissance Studies Program Roundtable, College Arts and Humanities Institute. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, December 8, 2017.

“‘¡Admirado quedo!’: Marvelous Conversion in Lope de Vega’s El bautismo del príncipe de Marruecos.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures (MACHL). Washington University at St. Louis, MO, October 27, 2017.

“Marvelous Encounters: Wonder in Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s La vida es sueño.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC). Lexington, KY, April 21, 2017.

“Conquest as Marvel: Performance and the Rhetoric of Wonder in El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT) Symposium on Golden Age Theater. El Paso, TX, April 1, 2016.

“Mechanisms of Wonder: Marvels in Don Quijote Part II.” Diálogos XII. Indiana University Graduate Student Conference in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Literature, and Culture. Bloomington, IN, March 1, 2015.

“Opposition to Societal Role: Exhibiting Masculine Qualities through Female Characters in the Works of Ana Caro and Catalina de Erauso.” The Ethos of Eros in the Early Modern Spanish-Speaking World. Early Modern Image and Text (EMIT) Society. Rutgers University at Camden, NJ, October 23, 2014.

Ph.D. - Indiana University, Bloomington (Hispanic Literatures and Cultural Studies, with a focus on Early Modern Studies) 
M.A. - Indiana University, Bloomington (Hispanic Literatures and Cultural Studies)
B.A. - Louisiana Tech University (Spanish Literature)