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Steven Wagschal | Faculty
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Director of Graduate Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Renaissance Studies Program
Office: Ballantine Hall 862/804
TEL: 855-1623/855-9194
Email: swagscha
Education
Ph.D., 1999, Columbia University
M.A., 1992, Columbia Universtiy
B.A., 1991, Concordia University
Specializations
- Early Modern/Golden Age prose, poetry and theater
- Philosophical Approaches to Literature
- Literature and the Emotions
- Mythology in Literature
- Art and Literature
Selected Publications
Books
- The Literature of Jealousy in the Age of Cervantes. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2006 (220pp).
- Editor, with Introduction and Notes. Peribáñez y el Comendador de Ocaña. By Lope de Vega. Cervantes & Company No. 14. Newark (DE): Cuesta European Masterpieces, 2004 (154pp).
Articles
- “Medicine, Morality, Madness: Competing Models of Insanity in Calderón’s El mayor monstruo del mundo.” Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos 32:2 (2008) 227-45.
- "Digging up the Past: The Archeology of Emotion in Cervantes's 'Romance de los celos.'" Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, 27:2 (2007) 213-28.
- "El Polifemo, la ékfrasis y el arte europeo, " Colección de estudios gongorinos, III, ed. Joaquín Roses. Córdoba: Exca. Diputación de Córdoba, 2005 (75-88).
- “Garcilaso Goes to the Met: Fine Arts and the Hypertext Sonnet.” Calíope11:2 (2005) 139-50.
- "From Parmigianino to Pereda: Góngora on Beautiful Women and Vanitas," Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes, ed. Frederick A. de Armas. Lewisburg (PA): Bucknell UP, 2005 (102-23).
- "Writing on the Fractured 'I': Góngora's Iconographic Evocations of Vulcan, Venus and Mars," Writing for the Eyes in the Spanish Golden Age, ed. Frederick A. de Armas. Lewisburg (PA): Bucknell UP, 2004 (130-50).
- "A Woman Not Fit to Rule: The Gendering of Jealousy in Lope de Vega's Arminda celosa," Bulletin of the Comediantes 55:2 (2003) 81-94.
- "'Mas no cabrás allá': Góngora's Early Modern Representation of the Modern Sublime," Hispanic Review 70.2 (2002): 169-189.
Teaching
- SPAN 761: Graduate Seminar Madness in Early Modern Spain
- SPAN 695/495: Plastic Verses: Ekphrasis and Art in Early Modern Spain
- SPAN 628 Cervantes and the Literature of Madness
- SPAN 528: Spanish Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- SPAN 512: Theory and Criticism
- SPAN 450: “Don Quixote”
- SPAN 417: Hispanic Poetry
- SPAN 407: Early Spanish Literature (Medieval and Early Modern)
- SPAN 332: Hispanic World II
- SPAN 310: Spanish Grammar and Composition
- COLL S103: Freshman Honors Seminar on “Don Quixote” in Translation
- COLL S103: Freshman Seminar Madness
Honors and Awards
- West European Studies National Resource Center, Faculty Research Grant (Summer 2009).
- Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University (2006-07).
- Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University (Summer 2005).
- West European Studies National Resource Center, Faculty Research Grant (Summer 2004).
- President's Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Grant, Indiana University (2003).
- NEH Summer Seminar on Cervantes and Italian Renaissance Art, University of Chicago (Summer 2003).
Current Research Projects
- Medicine, Morality and Madness: Insanity and Literature in Early Modern Spain.
- The Plasticity of Metaphor: Spanish Poetry and European Art in the Seventeenth Century.
