Don Quixote in the American West
A Fourth-Centenary Celebration
(1615–2015)
University of Colorado Denver & University of Wyoming
April 23–26, 2015
International Conference
Program
DENVER OPENING
Atrium North Classroom Building
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015
4:30–5:30 Reception/Registration
Atrium North Classroom Building
5:30–6:30
Keynote Speaker:
WILLIAM EGGINTON, Johns Hopkins University (Maryland)
“Don Quixote, Fiction, and the Politics of Irony”
Presenter: Kathleen Bollard, University of Colorado Denver
(Colorado)
1130 North Classroom Building
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2015
DENVER
9:30–10:00
Coffee and Cookies, Atrium North Classroom Building
10:00–11:30
Panel 1, 1402 North Classroom Building
“From Home and Abroad: Iberian Thinkers Read Don Quixote”
Chair: Julia Domínguez, Iowa State University (Iowa)
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Post Tenebras Spero Lucem: El Quijote de la Segunda Parte desde el
exilio español en América. Ana Laguna, Rutgers University
Camden (New Jersey)
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Physiognomy and Authority in Barataria. Pablo García Piñar,
Cornell University (New York)
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The Duchess’s Infertile Fuentes: Shameful Secrets and Population
Decline in Imperial Spain. Carmen Granda, Brown University
(Rhode Island)
10:00–11:30
Panel 2, 1602 North Classroom Building
“The Cave of Montesinos: An Everlasting Enigmatic Episode”
Chair: Michael J. McGrath, Georgia Southern University (Georgia)
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El dantismo de Cervantes: Las fuentes protohumanistas del
episodio de la Cueva de Montesinos. Pau Cañigueral Batllosera,
University of Massachusetts Amherst (Massachusetts)
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The Montesinos Episode in Film: Dreams? Reality? Visual Effects?
Angela Patricia Pacheco, Purdue University (Indiana)
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From El Toboso to the Cave of Montesinos: Don Quixote’s
Transformational Authority. Dominick Finello, City University of
New York (New York)
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Miseria y crimen, o de cómo trazar los límites entre soldados y
pícaros a partir de tres episodios cervantinos. Medardo Gabriel
Rosario, University of Chicago (Illinois)
10:00–11:30
Panel 3, 1603 North Classroom Building
“Literary Works and Literary Genres in Dialogue with Don Quixote”
Chair: Yohainna Abdala-Mesa, University of Colorado Denver (Colorado)
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Reframing Exemplarity: El Caballero del Verde Gabán. Kathleen
Bollard, University of Colorado Denver (Colorado)
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Embodied Carnivalization: Cognition in Don Quixote II and in
Amadís. Felipe Fiuza, Purdue University (Indiana)
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Don Quixote II: A Covert Parody of Christianity, Judaism, and
Islam. Jane Ratzer, University of Colorado Denver (Colorado)
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Verdad lúdica y el acto de lectura de Alonso Quijano. CarlosGermán van der Linde, Universidad de La Salle (Colombia)
11:30–1:00
Lunch
1:00–2:00
Keynote Speaker:
MARÍA ANTONIA GARCÉS, Cornell University (New York)
“Moros, moriscos y turcos en el Mediterráneo de Cervantes”
Presenter: Devin Jenkins, University of Colorado Denver (Colorado)
1130 North Classroom Building
2:15–3:45
Panel 4, 1402 North Classroom Building
“The Moorish Tapestry of Don Quixote’s Second Part”
Chair: Ibon Izurieta, Metropolitan State University of Denver (Colorado)
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Transformative Identities in Morisco Characters and Texts.
Veronica E. Menaldi, University of Minnesota (Minnesota)
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Ricote y Ana Félix: Extirpación de miembros infecciosos y la
construcción del cuerpo nacional en la España contrarreformista.
Diana Galarreta, University of Virginia (Virginia)
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Don Quijote II, the Arabic Precursors of the Picaresque, and the
Development of the Modern Novel. Michael Abeyta, University of
Colorado Denver (Colorado)
2:15–3:45
Panel 5, 1602 North Classroom Building
“Female Characters and Their Unique Voices”
Chair: Jorge Latorre, Universidad de Navarra (Spain)
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Melisendra’s Mishap: On Don Quixote, Part II in the Poetry and
Theatre of García Lorca. Nelson R. Orringer, University of
Connecticut (Connecticut)
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Ana Félix: A Morisca Shahrazad in Don Quixote II. Ebtisam S.
Mursi, Cornell University (New York)
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Aldonza y Dulcinea: La indisociabilidad de virilitas y virtus.
Guillermo Miguel Morales-Jodra, Temple University (Pennsylvania)
2:15–3:45
Panel 6, 1603 North Classroom Building
“Don Quixote in the Light of Classic Authors and Humanistic Questions”
Chair: Ana Laguna, Rutgers University Camden (New Jersey)
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The Anthropological Vision of Don Quixote. Michael J. McGrath,
Georgia Southern University (Georgia)
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El arte de la memoria en la lectura del Quijote. Julia Domínguez,
Iowa State University (Iowa)
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La Edad Media nunca existió: Hesíodo, Ovidio, don Quijote y la
decadencia ontológica de la Edad de Oro. Alodia Martín-Martínez,
Temple University (Pennsylvania)
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Don Quijote es un administrador ejemplar en las humanidades
universitarias. Felipe Hugueno, University of Buffalo (New York)
4:00–5:00
Keynote Speaker:
DIANA DE ARMAS WILSON, University of Denver (Colorado)
“Cervantes and the Barbary Pirates”
Presenter: Andrés Lema-Hincapié, University of Colorado Denver
(Colorado)
1539 North Classroom Building
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2015
LARAMIE
8:15–9:00
Breakfast (Coffee and Pastries). Atrium Business Building
9:00–10:00
Keynote Speaker:
MERCEDES ALCALÁ GALÁN, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(Wisconsin)
“Episodios ekfrásticos en el Quijote II”
Presenter: Paula Lutz, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
57 Business Building
10:15–11:45
Panel 7, 110 Business Building
“Textual Elements and Current Echoes of Don Quixote II”
Chair: Sonia Rodríguez-Hicks, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
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Art and Ataraxia in Cervantine Representations of the Pastoral.
John C. Parrack, University of Central Arkansas (Arkansas)
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Don Quixote II: Teoría, entretenimiento e imagen moderna. José
Luis Suárez-García, Colorado State University (Colorado)
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Los epígrafes de la Segunda Parte del Quijote. Caitlin Brady,
University of Colorado Boulder (Colorado)
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La ilusión de no ficcionalidad en la Segunda Parte del Quijote, o de
la ficción cervantina. Álvaro Bautista, Universidad del Valle
(Colombia)
10:15–11:45
Panel 8, 111 Business Building
“Ricote and the Dukes: Race Strategies, Moral Sanctions, and
Numismatics”
Chair: Nelson R. Orringer, University of Connecticut (Connecticut)
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Material Ironies: Numismatics, State Propaganda, and Ricote’s
Coins. Chad Leahy, University of Denver (Colorado)
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Quijote II, 33–36: De la prudencia a la sanción moral, o del “No es
oro todo lo que reluce” a “La codicia rompe el saco”. Jorge Chen
Sham, Universidad de Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
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“What Are You, Then?”: Cervantes’s Minor Strategies in the
Ricote/Ana Félix Episodes of Part II. Christine Garst-Santos, South
Dakota State University (South Dakota)
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Una lectura del exilio en el Quijote (1615) y la memoria cervantina
en América. Jinmei Chen, University of South Carolina (South
Carolina)
10:15–11:45
Panel 9, 121 Business Building
“Don Quixote II’s Women: Textual Silhouettes and Their Literary Sisters”
Chair: Conxita Domènech, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
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Altisidora’s Vision of the Book in Don Quixote. Gabriela Carrión,
Regis University (Colorado)
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De protagonistas a espectadores: La representación de Claudia
Jerónima ante don Quijote y Sancho. María Isabel Martín Sánchez,
University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
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Renegados, turcos, moriscos y cristianos: El episodio de Ana Félix.
Kelly C. Moore, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
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Dos modos literarios de morir: Alonso Quijano y Madame Bovary.
Bénédicte Sohier, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
11:45–1:30
Lunch (Provided)
Atrium Business Building
1:30–3:00
Panel 10, 110 Business Building
“Don Quixote is also a Catalan Masterpiece”
Chair: Jennifer LaVanchy, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
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Galeras e imprenta: El recorrido de don Quijote y de Sancho por la
Barcelona del siglo XVII. José Luis de Ramón Ruiz, University of
Wyoming (Wyoming)
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Don Quixote in Barcelona: An Explanation of his Voyage to
Catalonia. Antonio M. Rueda, Colorado State University Pueblo
(Colorado)
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“. . . llenos de pies y de piernas humanas”: Don Quijote y Sancho
Panza entran en Cataluña. Conxita Domènech, University of
Wyoming (Wyoming)
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El enigmático Antonio Moreno: Discreción, burla y poder en la
Barcelona del Quijote. Adriana Noya-Salgueiro, University of
Wyoming (Wyoming)
1:30–3:00
Panel 11, 111 Business Building
“The 1615 Don Quixote: Its Effects in Culture, Literature, and Cinema”
Chair: Irene Checa-García, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
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Alonso Quijano, un viajero “romántico” avant-garde creador de sí
mismo. Carlos Miguel-Pueyo, Valparaiso University (Indiana)
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Don Quixote in American Westerns. Jorge Latorre, Universidad de
Navarra (Spain)
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The Death of Cervantes and the Birth of Cide Hamete Benengeli:
An Analysis of Authorship in Don Quixote Using Roland Barthes’
The Death of the Author. Andy Barrientos, University of New Mexico
(New Mexico)
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Las relaciones entre los Quijotes de Cervantes y Avellaneda: Una
poética de la escritura. Valeria da Silva Moraes, Faculdade
Sumaré, São Paulo (Brazil)
1:30–3:00
Panel 12, 121 Business Building
“Don Quixote II: The Spanish Romancero and How Writers Read
Cervantes’ Novel”
Chair: Andrés Lema-Hincapié, University of Colorado Denver (Colorado)
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El retablo de las maravillas en Concierto barroco por Alejo
Carpentier. Amy Borja, University of Dallas (Texas)
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Quijano, Quijada, Quesada, or Heisenberg: Don Quixote II,
Breaking Bad, and the Antihero. Stephen Hessel, Ball State
University (Indiana)
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“Por vergonzoso lugar”: La parodia de la épica nacional en el
segundo Quijote cervantino. Magdalena Altamirano, San Diego
State University, Imperial Valley (California)
3:15–4:45
Panel 13, 110 Business Building
“An In-Depth Study of Literary Figures”
Chair: Kelly C. Moore, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
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El relativismo en el Caballero del Verde Gabán. Marcela Díaz
Cabal, Universidad de Panamá (Panama)
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Turning the Inside Out: On Early Modern Psychological Theory and
the Cruelty of the Duke and the Duchess. Bill Christensen,
Southwestern University (Texas)
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The Theatrical Invention of Authorial Figures in Don Quixote, Part
II. Ellen M. Anderson, York University (Canada)
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En las faldas de la Duquesa: Comedy, Monstrosity, and CrossDressing in the Home of the Caballero del Verde Gabán. Hollie
Allen, University of Colorado Boulder (Colorado)
3:15–4:45
Panel 14, 111 Business Building
¨Theater and Politics: Renaissance Coordinates¨
Chair: Jorge Chen Sham, Universidad de Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
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Epic Hero, Christian Knight, Machiavellian Prince or All of the
Above? Cervantes’ Polysemic Tribute to “Cortesísimo Cortés” in
Don Quixote II: 8. Alvaro Molina, Scripps College (California)
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El humanismo cervantino y la episteme quijotesca en el Quijote de
1615. Nitzaira Delgado-García, University of California Los Angeles
(California)
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The Myth of Psyche and Cupid in Cervantes’s Don Quixote: Love,
Ekphrasis, and Art of the Renaissance. Elena Cordan, Arizona
State University (Arizona)
3:15–4:45
Panel 15, 121 Business Building
¨A Melancholic Comedy in Counterpoint with the Question of
Technology¨
Chair: Jennifer Brady, University of Minnesota Duluth (Minnesota)
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The Emotional Politics of Laughter in Don Quixote of 1615. Paul
Michael Johnson, DePauw University (Indiana)
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Playing with Reality: Don Quixote and 21st Century Gaming. Ayelet
Ishai, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
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“Máquinas y trazas”: Technology, Agency, and the Aesthetic of
Instrumentality in Don Quixote, Part Two. Cory A. Reed, The
University of Texas at Austin (Texas)
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Las muchas muertes de Alonso Quijano, El Bueno. Andrés LemaHincapié, University of Colorado Denver (Colorado)
5:00–6:00
Keynote Speaker:
STEVEN HUTCHINSON, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Wisconsin)
Narrating the Return Journey
Presenter: Jean A. Garrison, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
57 Business Building
SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 2015
LARAMIE
8:15–9:00
Breakfast (Coffee and Pastries)
Atrium Business Building
9:00–10:30
Panel 16, 110 Business Building
¨International Lenses: Reception of Don Quixote Beyond the Spanish
Borders¨
Chair: Christian Greaser, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
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Claims of Ownership of Don Quixote in Germany during the 1920
and 1930s. Gabriele Eckart, Southeast Missouri State University
(Missouri)
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Oral Tradition and Critical Historiography in Mayans’s Biography
of Miguel de Cervantes. Jonathan E. Carlyon, Colorado State
University (Colorado)
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Don Quixote II Made in Brazil. Silvia Cobelo, Universidade de São
Paulo (Brazil)
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Crónica de otra muerte anunciada: La frontera difusa entre el
Verfremdungseffekt y la compasión en el Quijote de 1615. Juan
Carlos Rivas, Saint Vincent College (Pennsylvania)
9:00–10:30
Panel 17, 111 Business Building
¨Don Quixote II: This is Sancho’s Book, Too¨
Chair: Lilia Soto, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
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The Theatrical Education of Sancho Panza. Jennifer Brady,
University of Minnesota Duluth (Minnesota)
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La relación amo-escudero vista desde una perspectiva social. Luz
Margarita Riera Clavel, Universidad de Panamá (Panama)
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Sancho Panza, the Christian Prince: Social and Political Theories
in Don Quixote (1615). Ryan Schmitz, Texas Christian University
(Texas)
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El mundo de los animales en el Quijote (1615). José Reinel
Sánchez, Universidad de Quindío (Colombia)
10:45–11:45
Keynote Speaker:
EDWIN WILLIAMSON, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Authority and Power in Don Quixote Part Two
Presenter: Conxita Domènech, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
57 Business Building
CLOSING
THE SPONSORS OF THIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research
Goode Family Excellence Fund in Humanities