Mary M. Gaylord
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Undergraduate Adviser in
Romance Studies
Sosland Family Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
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Academic Degrees: A.B., Wellesley College; A.M., Middlebury College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Research 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 Offered in 2009-2010:
Spanish 124. Cervantes: Don Quixote [fall term]
Spanish 129. Playing the Spaniard: The Politics and Poetics of Identity in Early Modern Spanish Theatre - (New Course) [spring term]
Spanish 275r. Spanish Literature: Seminar [spring term]
Romance Studies 91r. Supervised Reading and Research [fall and spring terms]
Romance Studies 97. Tutorial—Sophomore Year [fall and spring terms]
Romance Studies 98. Tutorial-Junior Year [fall and spring terms]
Romance Studies 99.Tutorial-Senior Year [full year]
Other Courses Offered:
[Romance Studies 120. Emergence of the Lyric Subject in Early Romance Poetry (12th-16th Centuries) (with Virginie Greene)]
[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: Luis de Góngora y Argote]
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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. |
Read "Mary M. Gaylord propone una lectura americana del 'Quijote,'" an article written about Prof. Gaylord in El Pais, July 1, 2003.
For more information, go to the RLL course catalogue.
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Last updated on September 8, 2009
