Sosland Family Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Director of Undergraduate Studies and Undergraduate Adviser in Romance Studies, fall term 2008-09 (on leave spring term 2008-09)
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- Office:
424 Boylston Hall
- Phone:
617-496-6027
- E-mail: mgaylord@fas.harvard.edu
- Office
hours: Wednesdays 4-5, Thursdays 2-4
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Academic
Degrees: A.B., Wellesley College; A.M., Middlebury College;
Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature; Latin
American Colonial Literature; Hispanic Poetry of all Periods; Poetics;
Literary Theory; History and the Novel; Cervantes; Comparative Study of Early Romance Languages
Recent
and forthcoming publications:
"Cervantes'
other fiction." Cambridge Companion to Cervantes.
Ed. Anthony J. Cascardi. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
2002. 100-130.
"The
Making of Baroque Poetry." Cambridge History of Spanish
Literature. Ed. David T. Gies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 2005.
"How
To Do Things With Polimetría." Approaches to Teaching
Early Modern Spanish Drama. Eds. Laura R. Bass and Margaret
R. Greer. New York: Modern Language Association, 2005.
"Allegory
and Intimacy in a Quevedo Sonnet ('En breve cárcel traigo
aprisionado')." Studies in Honor of Denah Lida. Eds.
Mary G. Berg and Lanin Gyurko. Potomac, MD: Scripta Humanistica,
2005.
"Decir
y hacer en Don Quijote." Ínsula (special issue
for the 400th anniversary of Don Quijote's publication). Madrid,
March 2005.
"Getting
to Honduras: Allegorical Geographies and American Otherness in
Las seiscientas apotegmas of Juan Rufo." La pluralidad
de culturas en la Península Ibérica en la Edad Media
y los albores de la modernidad. Estudios ofrecidos a Francisco
Márquez Villanueva. Eds. M. M. Gaylord, Luis Girón-Negrón
and Ángel Sáenz-Badillos. Newark, DE: Juan de la
Cuesta, 2005.
Recent
and coming conferences:
Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic
Poetry. "Garcilaso y los territorios de la lírica."
Boston University. October 9-10, 2003.
Renaissance Society of America. "Arms, Men and the Risks
of Synecdoche." New York City. March 1-3, 2004.
Garcilaso
de la Vega (1503?-1536): Vida, obra, huella. "'Dulce fruto':
'sugeto', 'figura' e 'intento' en el soneto XXIII." Harvard
University. September 24-25, 2004.
Congreso Internacional sobre Cervantes y el Quijote. "La
Arcadia nuevamente inventada del Quijote de 1605." Universidad
de Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. October 27-30, 2004.
Cervantes Conference. "New World Shadows on Arcadia: Reading
Requirements in Don Quijote I, 8-15." Princeton University.
March 10-11, 2005.
Conference on the 400th Anniversary of the Publication of Don
Quijote. "Don Quijote, in his own words." Boston University.
April 14-15, 2005.
Guest
Teaching:
Universidad
de Oviedo, Spain. Programa especial de doctorado "Cervantes
y Europa." Course: "Cervantes entre Europa y América:
nuevos mundos de ficción e historia en el Quijote."
June 2003.
Universidad
de Valladolid, Spain. Programa especial de doctorado "El
Quijote y la novela moderna." Course: "Nuevos mundos
de ficción e historia en Don Quijote." April-May 2005.
Prizes:
Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, 2001.
Courses
Taught 2008-2009:
Spanish 281r.
Seminar: Major Critical Issues of 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish Literature
. Topic:
Luis de Góngora y Argote (fall)
Romance Studies 120. Emergence of the Lyric Subject in Early Romance Poetry (12th-16th Centuries) (with Virginie Greene) (fall)
Professor Gaylord is fall term Course Head for Romance Studies 91r. Supervised Reading and Research; Romance Studies 97. Tutorial—Sophomore Year; Romance Studies 98. Tutorial-Junior Year; and Romance Studies 99. Tutorial-Senior Year
Other
courses taught:
[Romance Languages 300. Seminar for Dissertation Writing in the Romance Literature]
[ Spanish 84. Grammar and Poetry: Language and the Making of Poems in Spanish ]
[Spanish 211. The Making of the Modern Lyric Subject]
[Spanish 281r. Seminar: Major Critical Issues of 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish Literature. Topic: Quevedo]
For
more information, go to the
Harvard course catalogue
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Visit
to a Special Exhibition on the Publication History of Don
Quijote at the Rare Book Library of the University of Oviedo.
October 2004. |
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Read "Mary M. Gaylord propone una lectura americana del 'Quijote,'" an article written about Prof. Gaylord in El Pais, July 1, 2003.
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to meet Department faculty.
Last
updated on
October 3, 2008
