JOHN BEUSTERIEN
OCTOBER 1, 2016
CURRICULUM VITAE
GENERAL INFORMATION
Texas Tech University
Box 42071
Lubbock, Texas 79409–2071
Phone: (806) 742–3145 X270
[email protected]
Education
Ph.D.
Spanish, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998
Thesis: The Libro Verde: Blood Fictions from Early Modern Spain
M.A.
English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1991
B.A., high honors
English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1987
Academic Positions at Texas Tech University
Full Professor, 2015-present
Associate Professor, Spanish, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Texas Tech University,
2005–2014
Director of Comparative Literature Program, Texas Tech University, 2010–2014
Teaching Interests
Animal Studies, Spanish Language, Spanish Grammar, Spanish cultures, Spanish literature, Don Quixote,
Spanish Southwest, the Llano Estacado, Latino culture and literature, Portuguese
Research Interests
Cervantes, Early Modern Spain, Animal Studies, Spanish Southwest, Comparative Literature, Race
Studies, Critical Theory, Material Culture
ACHIEVEMENTS, AWARDS AND HONORS
2016, 2012 Undergraduate and Graduate Students Receive Awards for University-wide Essay Contest
sponsored by the Sowell Family Collection. This essay contest promotes and supports student research
in the work of writers in the Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World.
2014, 2017 Dissertation Award Fellowships for Julio Pérez Méndez and Heath Wing
2015
Discussion Leader of Humanities Center Colloquium, Texas Tech University
2015
Director of Outstanding Dissertation Award in Humanities and Fine Arts for Heath Wing, Texas
Tech University
2015
Faculty Fellow Award, Humanities Institute, Texas Tech University
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2015
President’s Book Award for Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez
2014
Collaborative Project Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, Awarded for the
co-edited collection, Touching the Ground: Female Footwear in the Early Modern Hispanic
World
2014
Mid-Career Faculty Salary Adjustment
2013
Multi-cultural Curricular Development, Texas Tech University
2012
Clark Scholars Research Professor, Texas Tech University
2010
New naming of Goya Painting. Based on research, the Head of the Conservation of EighteenthCentury Painting and Goya at the Prado Museum in Madrid corrected the title of a Goya
painting
2017, 2010
Faculty Development Leave Award
2008
President’s Book Award for An Eye on Race: Perspectives from Theater in Imperial Spain, Texas
Tech University
2006
Inducted in Sigma Delta Pi, National Hispanic Honor Society, Texas Tech University
2000
Arthur Anderson New Professor of the Year, Albion College
RESEARCH
Books and Edited Collections
2013
Beusterien, John and Noelia Cirnigliaro (Dartmouth College), editors. Touching the Ground:
Female Footwear in the Early Modern Hispanic World. Special issue of Journal of Spanish
Cultural Studies. London: Routledge. 14.2. 218 pages. Collaborative Project Award, Society for
the Study of Early Modern Women
2013
Beusterien, John. Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez: An Animal Studies Reading of Early
Modern Spain. Series: New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies. Aldershot: Ashgate
Publishing. 137 pages. President’s Book Award, Texas Tech University
2013
Beusterien, John and Hsinya Huang (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan), editors.
Sustaining Ecocriticism: Comparative Perspectives. Special Issue of Comparative Literature
Studies. Penn State Press. 50.1. 186 pages.
2010
Beusterien, John and Constance Cortez (Texas Tech University), editors. Death and Afterlife: The
Case of the Early Modern Hispanic World. University of Minnesota Press: Hispanic Issues On
Line. 194 pages.
2006
Beusterien, John. An Eye on Race: Perspectives from Theater in Imperial Spain. Lewisburg:
Bucknell University Press. 228 pages. President’s Book Award, Texas Tech University
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2005
Beusterien, John, ed. Lope de Vega’s El prodigio de Etiopía, Vilagarcía de Arousa, Mirabel
Editorial. 142 pages.
2002
Pereira–Muro, Carmen and John Beusterien. Culturas de España: Una perspectiva histórica y
temática. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 352 pages.
1999
Beusterien, John and John O'Neill, editors. Texts and Concordances of the Lazarillo de Tormes,
Alcalá de Henares, Burgos, and Amberes, 1554. Edited. Introduction by John Beusterien (5
pages). Reprinted in: Electronic Texts and Concordances of the Madison Corpus of Early
Spanish Manuscripts and Printings. Prepared by John O'Neill. Madison and New York: Hispanic
Seminary of Medieval Studies.
1994
Beusterien, John and John O'Neill, editors. Texts and Concordances of the Lazarillo de Tormes,
Alcalá de Henares, Burgos, and Amberes, 1554. Madison, Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies.
629 pages (6 microfiches).
Articles and Essays (refereed)
2017
Beusterien, John. “La discriminación contra los afro-hispanos en una obra teatral del siglo XVII:
Una escena grotesca de La confesión con el demonio de Francisco de la Torre y Sevil” Hispania
felix: Revista rumano-española de cultura y civilización de los Siglos de Oro, un número
dedicado a “Lo abyecto, lo grotesco y lo sublime en la literatura áurea hispánica.” Ed. Robert
Lauer. (forthcoming).
2017
Beusterien, John. “The Armadillo: Spain Creates a Curious Horse to Belittle America,” Bulletin of
Spanish Visual Studies (forthcoming).
2016
Beusterien, John, Diego Pascual, and Julio Ruben Torres. "What’s Next?: Heritage Language
Learners Shape New Paths in Spanish Teaching," Hispania (forthcoming).
2016
Beusterien, John; Daniel Ares López, Katarzyna Beilin, Luis I. Prádanos, Sainath Suryanaryanan
and William Viestenz. “Keeping the Humanities Alive by Transforming It: A Co-op Conclusion.”
A Polemical Companion to Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates. Eds. Katarzyna Beilin
and William Viestenz. Hispanic Issues On Line 7 (2016): 137-142. Web.
2016
Beusterien, John. “An Exemplary Iberian Peninsula for an Ethics of Life.” A Polemical Companion
to Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates. Eds. Katarzyna Beilin and William Viestenz.
Hispanic Issues On Line 7 (2016): 55-62. Web.
2016
Beusterien, John. “Animals in Contemporary Spanish Newspapers.” A Polemical Companion to
Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates. Eds. Katarzyna Beilin and William Viestenz.
Hispanic Issues On Line 7 (2016): 11-14. Web.
2016
Beusterien, John. “Animals in Contemporary Spanish Newspapers.” Ethics of Life; Contemporary
Iberian Debates, eds. Katarzyna Beilin and William Viestenz. Hispanic Issues. Vanderbilt
University Press. 279-294.
2016
Beusterien, John. “Humor and a Political Future through Illustrations of Sancho Panza and His
Donkey.” Baroque Projections: Images and Texts in Dialogue with the Early Modern Hispanic
World. Eds. Michael J. Horswell and Frédéric Conrod, Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2016. 191-208.
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2014
Beusterien, John. “El origen de ‘El coloquio de los perros’ según Amezúa: Ajustando cuentas con
un crítico del régimen fascista,” Cervantes, política nacional y estética nacionalista, 1920–1975.
Eds. Jacques Lezra and Francisco Layna. eHumanista/Cervantes.
2013
Beusterien, John. “When the Shoe is Not an Object: The Chinela as Thing in Lope de Vega’s El
caballero de Olmedo.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Routledge),14.2. 201-215.
2013
Beusterien, John. “Cervantes ante la idea del judío como enemigo social.” Cervantes y sus
enemigos. Anuario de estudios cervantinos, Volume 9. Eds. Eduardo Urbina and Jesús G.
Maestro. Vigo: Sociedad Cervantina de Madrid y Academia Editorial del Hispanismo. 285-294.
2013
Beusterien, John and J. Baird Callicot. “Humor and Politics through the Animal in Cervantes and
Leopold,” Comparative Literature Studies (Penn State University Press) 50.1: 43–63.
2012
Beusterien, John. “The Celebratory Conical Hat in La Celestina,” Crime and Punishment in
Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Connie Scarborough, Berlin and New York: de Gruyter,
405–415.
2010
Beusterien, John. "'El nombre de podenco:' The Dog as Book in the Prologue of Part II of Don
Quijote," Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 30.1: 87–100.
2010
Beusterien, John. “Goya’s Dogs,” Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century, eds. Jennifer
Frangos and Cristobal Silva, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. 155–172.
2009
Beusterien, John. “Did Cervantes Stutter?” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of
America” 29 (2009): 209–220.
2007
Beusterien, John. “The Intellectual and Black Speech in Golden Age Spain and in Cuban Teatro
Bufo,” International Conference on Caribbean Studies: Selected Proceedings (The First
International Conference on Caribbean Studies, 2006), ed. Héctor R. Romero. Edinburg:
University of Texas Pan–American Press, 2007. 29–36.
2007
Beusterien, John. “Time for the Romance and the Corrido,” Hispania 90.4: 672–680.
2007
Beusterien, John. “Reading Cervantes: A New Virtual Reality,” Comparative Literature Studies
(Penn State University Press) 43.4: 428–440.
2006
Beusterien, John. “Teaching Race in El valiente negro en Flandes by Andrés de Claramonte,”
Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama, eds. Margaret Greer and Laura Bass.
New York: Modern Language Association of America. 174–181.
2006
Beusterien, John. “The Spanish ‘Jewish Conspiracy’ Letters,” Monographic Review 22: 33–45.
2005
Beusterien, John. “Un acercamiento poscolonial a la comedia del Siglo de Oro: El caso de El
valiente negro en Flandes,” Actas del Congreso Internacional “El Siglo de Oro en el nuevo
milenio,” eds. Carlos Mata and Miguel Zugasti, Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra. 289–298.
2004
Beusterien, John. “Lope de Vega’s Auto sacramental de la circuncisión y sangría de Cristo: A
Focal Point of Anti–Semitism in Seventeenth–Century Spain.” Hispanic Review (University of
Pennsylvania Press): 357–374.
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2001
Beusterien, John. “Blotted Genealogies: A Survey of the libros verdes,” Bulletin of Hispanic
Studies: 183–197.
1999
Beusterien, John. “Talking Black in Spanish: An Unfinished Black Spanish Glossary,” Bulletin of
the Comediantes 51: 83–104.
1999
Beusterien, John. “Jewish Male Menstruation in Seventeenth–Century Spain,” Bulletin of the
History of Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press) 73: 447–456.
1998
Beusterien, John. "Miguel de Barrios' Contra la verdad no hay fuerza: A New 'Auto' in
Seventeenth–Century Spanish Drama," A Society on Stage, eds. Edward H. Friedman, H.J.
Manzari, and Donald D. Miller. New Orleans: University Press of the South. 13–20.
Poetry (referred)
2015
“Labrando en Lubbock” Nueva Grecia: Revista de Literatura 9 (Seville). 5.
2015
“Una traducción de un poema de Yeats al estilo de Lubbock” Nueva Grecia: Revista de Literatura
9 (Seville). 6.
Translations and Transcriptions
2004
Translator John Beusterien with Laura P. Alonso Gallo, "Unity and Diversity in American
Literature," Entrevistas a escritores americanos / Interviews with American Writers. Ed. Laura P.
Alonso Gallo. Cádiz: Aduana Vieja. 41–65.
2003
Margaret Jackson and Rebecca Brienen, Visions of Empire: Picturing the Conquest in Colonial
Mexico. Michael Schreffler and John Beusterien, transcribers. Miami: Kislak Foundation and
Lowe Art Museum.
1997
Early Celestina Electronic Texts and Concordances, Ivy A. Corfis and John O’Neill, eds., Pedro
Hagenbach, 1500. Transcribed by John Beusterien and Ivy Corfis. Madison: Hispanic Seminary
of Medieval Studies.
1996
Translator John Beusterien with Narciso G. Menocal, “The Architectural Avant–Garde: From Art
Deco to Modern Regionalism,” Eduardo Luis Rodríguez, The Journal of Decorative and
Propaganda Arts, Cuba Theme Issue 22: 254–277.
1996
Translator John Beusterien with Narciso G. Menocal, “The City as Landscape: Jean Claude
Nicolas Forestier and the Great Urban Works of Havana, 1925–1930,” Jean–François Lejeune; The
Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Cuba Theme Issue 22: 150–185.
Book Manuscripts in Preparation
Beusterien, John and Ana Laguna (Rutgers University). Goodbye Eros: Reassessing the Ethos of Love in
Early Modern Spanish Literature, projected date of publication, 2017.
Beusterien, John. Horses Crisscrossing the Early Modern Atlantic, projected date of completion, 2017.
Beusterien, John. Comic Epitaphs: Laughing, Death, and Don Quixote.
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Articles in Preparation
Beusterien, John. “The Black Madonna Icon: Race, Rape, and the Virgin of Montserrat in
The Confession with the Devil by Francisco de Torres.” In Goodbye Eros: Reassessing the Ethos
of Love in Early Modern Spanish Literature. Eds. John Beusterien and Ana Laguna. Projected
date of publication, 2017.
Beusterien, John. “Cervantes and Tickling.” Reimagining Don Quixote: Film, Mind, and Image in the
Digital Age. Eds. Antonio Cortijo & Eloi Grasset. Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs.
Projected date of publication, 2017.
Published Book Reviews
2016
Beusterien, John. At Home and Astray: The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain by Philip Howell.
In Journal of Social History (Oxford University Press).
2015
Beusterien, John. La musa refractada: Literatura y óptica en la España del Barroco by Enrique
García Santo-Tomás. In Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Routledge), 16:3: 317-320.
2011
Beusterien, John. Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain by Ryan
Prendergast, in Renaissance Quarterly (Universty of Chicago) 64.4: 1250–1251.
2010
Beusterien, John. Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain by
Barbara Fuchs, in Iberoamericana. América Latina–España–Portugal. 37: 219–222.
2009
Beusterien, John. Masculinidad en obras: El drama de la hombría en la España imperial by José
R. Cartagena Calderón in Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America” 29.1: 238–242.
2008
Beusterien, John. Male Delivery. Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern
Spain by Sherry Velasco in Bulletin of the Comediantes 59.2: 413–415.
2007
Beusterien, John. Manuscript Diversity, Meaning and Variance in Juan Manuel’s El Conde
Lucanor by Laurence de Looze in Hispania 90: 696–697.
2005
Beusterien, John. Producing the Pacific: Maps and Narratives of Spanish Exploration (1567–1606)
by Mercedes Maroto Camino in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 29.3: 568–587.
TEACHING: Research Direction
Completed Doctoral Dissertations:
Heath Wing, Assistant Professor, South Dakota State University, “States of Exception on American
Frontiers: Biopolitics, Violence, and Nation in Blood Meridian, Martín Fierro, and Os Sertões,” 2015
Martine Price, Instructor, University of North Texas, “Confronting Death in Soledades and Poeta en
Nueva York,” 2016
Catherine Grissom, Dean of Christian Education and Instructor, Texas Bible College, “A Tale of Two
Tricksters: Paratextuality and Supplementarity in the Don Juan Master-Servant Relationship,” 2016
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John Baron, Instructor, University of Texas, Arlington, “Restoring Memory in Recent Novels and Films
from Argentina,” 2016
Doctoral Dissertations in Progress
Director of Doctoral Dissertation: Julio César Pérez Méndez; Claudia Simon
Member of Doctoral Dissertation Committees: Janie Covarrubias; Rubén Varona; Dora Aranda (2014),
Abraham Mata (2014), Ana Cawthon (2014), Brenda Adcock (2012), Hilda Salazar (2011), Fred Weiser
(2010), Mario Morera (2010), Jose Olascoaga (2009); Isabel Ojeda
Member of Doctoral Dissertation Committees: Gretchen Williams (History)
Director of M.A. Committees: David Barrientos (2016), Micah Burns (2014), Gayle Jeffers (2013), Gerardo
Aguilar (2011), Pablo Dominguez (2011), Mary Belden (2010), Magdalena Pando (2010), Cheri Grissom
(2009).
Member of M.A. Committees: Hector Noriega (2016), David Barrientos (2016), Edlyn Romero (2014), Erik
Arreola (2014), Florencio Aranda (2010), Edith Lozano (2010), Jose Olascoaga (2006), Hilda Salazar
(2006).
Advising and Research Engagement for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
2014
Organize Panels with twelve Spanish graduate students at International Comparative Literature
Symposium at Texas Tech University
2012
Organize Undergraduate and Graduate Student Presentations for the Conference on the Sowell
Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World, Texas Tech University.
2012
Organize the Llano Estacado Lecture Series for Undergraduates and Graduates
2012
Organize Undergraduate and Graduate Student Ecological Day to the 23rd Annual Southern
Plains Conference, “Beyond the Windshield: Dwelling in the Natural World,” Muleshoe, Texas.
2012
Organize Undergraduate and Graduate Submission to University-wide Essay Contest sponsored
by the Sowell Family Collection. The three Spanish Graduate submissions won the three top
prizes.
2011
Organize Graduate and Undergraduate Student Conference: “Cervantes and Don Quixote:
Perspectives from Texas Tech University,” 2011.
2011
Organize Undergraduate and Graduate Student Ecological Day to Darryl Birkenfeld’s Playa Lake
Classroom and the Ogallala Commons, 2011.
2008- Organized Meeting of Spanish Graduate Students with Invited Distinguished
2014
Speakers: Patricia Saldarriaga, Middlebury College (2014); Ileana Rodríguez (2013), Ohio State
University; Irene Vilar, Puerto Rican writer (2011); Jacques Lezra, New York University (2011);
Ernesto Cardenal, poet from Nicaragua (2011); Walter Mignolo, Duke University (2010); John
Beverley, University of Pittsburgh (2008)
2006- Organize Panels of Spanish Graduate Students for Céfiro Annual Conferences on
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2010
Latin American and Iberian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Texas Tech University.
2008
Organize Panels of Spanish Graduate Students for Texas Medieval Association, 8th Annual
Conference, Texas Tech University.
2008
Organize Special Colloquium of Spanish Graduate Students: "Animals in the Early Southwest,"
an event for the American Indian Events Month.
2008
Creation of Docent Group of Spanish Graduate Students for Special Exhibition in the Southwest
Collections, "Medieval Southwest: Manifestations of the Old World in the New.”
GRANT ACTIVITY
Extramural Funding
2011
John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off–Campus Faculty Research Award, The Charles Redd
Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. "Animals in Spanish New Mexico.”
$1500.00
2008
Research Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain´s Ministry of Culture and
United States´ Universities (administered by the University of Minnesota). “Animals in the Early
Modern Spain.” $3000.00
1996
Tinker Foundation / Nave Fund Field Research Grant. $2000.00
Intramural Funding
2016
Grant for Spanish graduation ceremony $500.00
2015
Grant for Recruiting Graduate Students, Graduate Dean $500.00
2013
Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center $ 600.00
2012
FY13 Internal Competitive Funding Opportunity to Advance Scholarship in the Creative Arts,
Humanities and Social Sciences. $6500
2011
Grant for Conference, Ryla T. and John F. Lott Endowment for Excellence in the Visual Arts
administered by the School of Art, Texas Tech University. $5000
2008
Grant for Conference, Ryla T. and John F. Lott Endowment for Excellence in the Visual Arts
administered by the School of Art, Texas Tech University. $5000
2008
Spring Enrichment Fund for Research, Texas Tech University. $3500
2007
Texas Tech Humanities Conference Travel Grant. $982
2007
Texas Tech Arts and Humanities Research Award, Texas Tech University. $3600
Grant in Preparation: The Division of Education at the National Endowment for the Humanities, “The
Hispanic and Native Cultures on the Llano Estacado, 1540–1850,” Expected date of submission: 2018.
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