Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
University of Virginia
PO Box 400777
Charlottesville, VA 22904
email: padron@virginia.edu
phone: (434) 924-7543
fax: (434) 924-7160
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish, Italian and
Portuguese, University of Virginia.
Fall 2004 – Present.
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Romance,
Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures, The George Washington
University.
Fall 2008 – Spring 2009.
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania. January – February, 2004.
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish, Italian and
Portuguese, University of Virginia.
Fall, 1997 – Spring 2004.
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1995-96.
Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, 1991-92.
The Great South Sea: The Pacific and Asia in the Hispanic Imperial Imagination. In progress.
The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire
in Early Modern Spain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2004
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Reviews in ABC, American
Historical Review, Canadian
Journal of History, Cartographica, The Geographical Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, Hispanic Review, Imago Mundi, The International History Review, Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, Journal
of Latin American Studies, Journal
of Modern History, Modern Philology, MLQ,
Renaissance Quarterly, Revista
Iberoamericana, The
Sixteenth-Century Journal, Times
Literary Supplement, Virginia
Quarterly Review, and others.
ÒA Sea of Denial: The Early Modern Spanish Invention of the Pacific Rim.Ó Forthcoming in Hispanic Review.
ÒLa renovaci—n del conquistador: Espa–a, Filipinas, y la China en el siglo XVI,Ó in Desplazamientos y disyunciones: Nuevos itinerarios de los estudios coloniales. Universidad Aut—noma de Puebla, Mexico. Forthcoming.
ÒMapping Imaginary Worlds.Ó Maps: Finding our Place in the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 255-87.
ÒAgainst Apollo: G—ngoraÕs Soledad primera and Early Modern Spanish Imperial Cartography.Ó MLQ 68/3 (2007): 363-93.
"The Stage of Idolatry: Calder—n de la BarcaÕs La aurora en Copacabana." The Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 84/1 (2007): 13-36.
ÒThe Blood of Martyrs is the Seed of the Monarchy: Empire, Utopia, and the Faith in LopeÕs Triunfo de la fŽ,Ó Forthcoming in The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36/3 (Fall, 2006).
"The Hero in Drag: Revisiting GarcilasoÕs Second Eclogue." Annals of Scholarship 16/1, 2, and 3 (2004): 39-52.
"Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity." Representations 79 (2002): 28-60.
"Charting Empire, Charting Difference: G—maraÕs Historia general de las Indias and Spanish Maritime Cartography." Colonial Latin American Review. 11. 1 (2002): 47-69.
"Exiled Subjects, Paper Empires: Revisiting Love and Heroism in Herrera." Hispanic Review. 70/4 (2002): 497-520.
"Love American Style: The Virgin Land and the Sodomitic Body in Ercilla's Araucana." Revista de Estudios Hisp‡nicos. 34 (2000): 563-86.
"Cumand‡ and the Cartographers: Nationalism and Form
in Juan Leon Mera." Annals of Scholarship. 12/3&4 (1998): 217-34.
"Geograf’a,
sodom’a, y lo femenino en La Araucana de Alonso de Ercilla,Ó Actas del XIV
Congreso de la Asociaci—n Internacional de Hispanistas, New York, 16-21 de
Julio de 2001. Vol. IV: Literatura
hispanoamericana. Edited by Isa’as Lerner, Robert Nival,
and Alejandro Alonso. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004. 515-22.
Helgerson,
Richard. A Sonnet from
Carthage: Garcilaso de la Vega and the New Poetry of Sixteenth-Century Europe.
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Forthcoming
in Hispanic Review.
BrŸckner, Martin. The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy and National Identity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Forthcoming in American Historical Review.
Craib, Raymond. Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes. Durham: Duke UP, 2004. In American Historical Review 111/1 (Feb 2006): 242-43.
Pereda, Felipe;
Mar’as, Fernando (Eds.) El Atlas del Rey Planeta: La "Descripcion de
Espa–a y de las costas y puertos de sus reinos" de Pedro Texeira (1634) 398 pp., illus., index. Hondarribia, Spain:
Editorial Nerea, 2002. In Isis 96/1 (2005): 113-14.
Fowler, Alastair. Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art. New York: Oxford UP, 2003. Cal’ope
Rojas, Fernando de. La Celestina. Edited by Patricia S. Finch. Cervantes & Co. Spanish Classics, vol. 9. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2003. In La cor—nica 33/1 (2004): 290-91.
Ralph Bauer, The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). In Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 61/4 (2005): 732-33.
Sigal, Pete, ed. Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2000. In Bulletin of Spanish Sudies 81/1 (2004): 125-26.
Arias, Santa and Mariselle MelŽndez, eds. Mapping Colonial Spanish America. Buknell UP, 2002. In Revista de Estudios Hisp‡nicos.
ÒPacific Inventions in Early Modern Spain,Ó Paper given at the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL. April 3, 2008.
Invited respondent to ÒCartographic Cultures: Mapping Local, National, and Transnational Collectives in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin America,Ó a panel at the American Historical Association, Washington, DC. January 6, 2008.
ÒEnvisioning Empire: Competing Cartographies in the Early Modern Hispanic World,Ó Paper given at the New England Renaissance Conference, Brown University, October 20, 2007.
ÒMapping Imaginary Worlds.Ó Panel paper given at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Puebla, Mexico. April 20, 2007.
ÒThe View from Manila: Space and Identity in SpainÕs Oriental Indies.Ó Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Harrisonburg, VA. October 2006.
ÒMapping the Hispanic East.Ó Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, England. April 2005.
ÒThe Hero in Drag: Poetry, Desire, and the Patria in Garcilaso's Second Eclogue.Ó Garcilaso de la Vega: Vida, obra, huella. An international conference at Harvard University. September 2004.
ÒFrom Madrid to Manila: The Spanish East.Ó Renaissance Society of America, New York City. April 2004.
ÒSailing with Your Eyes Closed: G—ngoraÕs Diatribe Against Navigation and Early Modern Cartographic Literature.Ó Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Boston. October 2003.
ÒMapping Barcelona in Don Quixote, Part II.Ó International Conference on the History of Cartography. Portland, Maine. June 2003.
"The Death of Magellan: Empire in ErcillaÕs Araucanaand G—ngoraÕs Soledades.Ó Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, CA. April 2003.
ÒThe Hero in Drag: Eros and Mars in Garcilaso's Eclogue II." Renaissance Society of America, Scottsdale, AZ. April 2002.
"Love, Glory, and Self-Fashioning in Algunas obras de Fernando de Herrera." Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Columbus, OH. October 2001
"Mapping
Others, Mapping Ourselves." Latin American Studies Association,
Washington, DC.
September 2001
"Empire Imagined and Empire Erased: Contrasting Prose Cartographies in Oviedo, G—mara, and Las Casas." XIXth International Congress on the History of Cartography, Madrid. July 2001.
"Geograf’a, sodom’a, y lo femenino en La Araucana de Ercilla." International Association of Hispanists, New York City. July 2001.
"Staging Idolatry: Calder—n, America, and Protestant Europe." Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX. March 2001.
"Love American Style: Geography and Sodomy in the Araucana." Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington. April, 2000.
Panelist, "What is the New Historicism?" With Stephen Greenblatt, Katherine Maus, and Mark Edmundson. Forum for Contemporary Thought, University of Virginia. April, 2000.
"The Places of Exile and the Spaces of Empire: Conflicting Poetic Discourse in Fernando de Herrrera." MLA Convention, Chicago. December, 1999.
"The Spaces of Empire in Early Modern Spain." MLA Convention, Chicago. December, 1999.
"Revisiting the Reconquest: Territory and the Law in CortŽsÕs Second Letter from Mexico." Latin American Studies Association, Chicago. September, 1998.
"Las Casas, the Americas, and the Writing of the World." Renaissance Society of America, University of Maryland, College Park. March, 1998.
"The Stages of Discourse and the Discourse of the Stage: Edward Said and Abraham Ortelius." MLA Convention, Toronto, Ontario. December, 1997.
"Cosmography in Crisis: Canto XXVII of ErcillaÕs Araucana." Sixth Annual Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society, University of New Mexico. February, 1997.
"Towards a Literary Cartography of the Americas: Space and Story in Hern‡n CortŽsÕs Second Letter from Mexico." Graduate Student Conference in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago. June, 1996.
ÒA Sea of Denial: The Invention of the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern Spain.Ó Re-Envisioning Early Modern Iberia, a Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania, February 15, 2008.
ÒThe Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature and Empire in Early Modern Spain.Ó Newberry Library, Chicago. January 12, 2008.
ÒEnvisioning Empire in the Early Modern Hispanic World: The Indies, the Pacific, the Globe.Ó Princeton University. November 16, 2007.
ÒFrom Maps to Mapping: Cartography and the Spanish Imperial Imagination.Ó Ohio Statue University. February 2007.
ÒFrom Maps to Mappings: The Spaces of Early Modern Iberian Cartography, 1500-1600.Ó Presentation given by invitation to the ÒThe Geography of Atlantic History, 1450 – 1820,Ó a workshop organized by the Atlantic History Seminar of Harvard University, November 4, 2006.
ÒThe Iberian East and Hispanic Globalism: Frontiers and Belatedness.Ó Stanford University. March 2006.
ÒA Conversation about Don Quixote and the ModernÓ with InŽs Azar. Library of Congress. November 2005.
ÒThe City and Modernity in Don Quixote, Part II.Ó James Madison University. November 2005.
ÒFrom Madrid to Manila: The Spanish East and Christian Japan.Ó University of Oregon, Eugene. November 2004.
ÒAgainst Apollo: G—ngoraÕs First Solitude and Early Modern Imperial Cartography.Ó Colloquium on ÒSpace & Place,Ó University of Washington, Seattle. May 2004.
Also at Emory University, Atlanta, October 2004, and at Columbia University, June 2005.
ÒThe Invention of America and the Invention of the Map.Ó Brown University. February 2003.
"Charting a Spacious World: Cartography, the Americas, and Hispanic Modernity, 1500-1600." Library of Congress, January 2002.
ÒThe Space of Empire and the Stage of Idolatry: La aurora en Copacabana.Ó Stanford University, January 1999, and University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, February 1999.
"Fit—nÕs Map and PhilipÕs World: ErcillaÕs Epic and the Crisis of Cosmography in Sixteenth-Century Spain." Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University. February, 1997.
"The Garden, the Desert, and the Map in La Araucana." Presentation given to graduate seminar, "New Worlds of Golden Age Poetry," Harvard University, at the invitation of Prof. Mary Gaylord. November, 1995.
Manuscript reviews for Modern Language Association, Pennsylvania State University Press, University of Chicago Press, Fondo de Cultura Econ—mica, University of Wales Press, Hispanic Review, Revista canadiense de estudios hisp‡nicos, Revista de estudios hisp‡nicos, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Science in Context, Atlantic Studies, La cor—nica.
Harvard University, Ph.D., Romance Languages and Literatures, 1997
Harvard University, M.A., Romance Languages and Literatures, 1996
University of Chicago, A.M., Divinity, 1991
University of VirginiA, B.A. with Highest Distinction, Political & Social Thought, 1989
Span 858 Early Modern Spanish
Imperial Discourse
Graduate seminar on trans-Atlantic imperial literature. Fall 2004.
Span 780 Colonial Historiography
Graduate seminar on Spanish Americana of the sixteenth century. Fall, 2005.
Span 779 Mapping the Early Modern
World
Graduate seminar on maps, mapping and literature in early modern Spain,
England, and France.
Span 757 Golden Age Theater
Graduate seminar on the drama of the Spanish Golden Age. Spring, 2001
Span 755 Golden Age Poetry
Graduate seminar on poetry of Spanish Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Spring, 2000. Fall, 2002.
Span 750 Early Modern Hispanic
Cartographic Literature
Graduate seminar on literature, cartography and the history of spatiality in
early modern Spain and Latin America. Fall, 1999.
Span 580 Colonial Literature
Masters level introduction to the literature of Latin AmericaÕs colonial
period. Spring, 2006.
Span 555 Golden Age Literature
Masters level introduction to the literature of SpainÕs Golden Age. Spring, 2004.
Span 456 Don Quixote
Undergraduate course on CervantesÕs masterpiece in the literary and cultural
context of its times.
Fall, 1998, 1999, 2000. Spring
2005.
Span 455 Heroes & Swindlers
Undergraduate survey of Golden Age Spanish Literature. Fall, 2000, 2003.
Span 427 Spanish Culture &
Civilization
Undergraduate course emphasizing the emergence of modern subjectivity in early
modern Spain. Spring 2005.
Span 423/425/426 1492 and the
Aftermath
Undergraduate course examining the cultural history of the Encounter.
Spring, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006.
Span 340 Introduction to Spanish
Literature I (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque)
Undergraduate survey of literature from the Poema de Mio ‚id to the theater of Calder—n. Fall, 1997, 2003, 2004,
2005.
Span 330 Introduction to Literary
Analysis
Undergraduate introduction to the principles of analyzing narrative, lyric
poetry, and drama.
Fall, 1997, 1998, and 2002. Spring, 1998.
Dissertation Advisor:
Pettinaroli, Elizabeth. ÒPlace, Geography and Literature in the Early Modern Hispanic World.Ó Ph.D. Thesis. University of Virginia, Fall 2007.
Reagan, Patricia. Dissertation on narrative and narcissism in contemporary Latin America. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Virginia, Summer 2008 (expected).
Dissertation Reader:
Renee GutiŽrrez, Disssertation on
PeraltaÕs Lima fundada. Fall, 2007.
Hidalgo, JosŽ Manuel. ÒLas
serranas apocal’pticas en el Libro de buen amor.Ó Ph.D.
Thesis. University of Virginia,
Summer 2006.
Matthew Bentley, ÒThe Materiality of Love, Language, and Representation in Questi—n de amor.Ó Ph.D. Thesis. University of Virginia, Spring 2004.
Todd Price, ÒThe Stage in the
Streets: Calder—n de la BarcaÕs autos sacramentales in the Urban Landscape of Madrid,Ó Ph.D.
Thesis. University of Virginia,
Fall 2003.
Renee GutiŽrrez, Title TBA.
Celeste Delgado. ÒJaume
Roig's Spill : a diplomatic edition and an english translation of Ms. Vat. Lat.
4806.Ó Ph.D. Thesis. University of
Virginia, Spring 2003
Aurora Hermida-Ruiz, "Historiograf’a literaria y nacionalismo espa–ol.
Garcilaso de la Vega o el linaje del hombre invisible." Fall, 1998.
MA Thesis Reader:
Andrea Jennings (Spring, 2004), Kelly Castellanos (Spring, 1998), Marlon Valladares (Spring, 1998), Matthew Marr (Spring, 1999), Ross Wehner (Spring, 1999), and Carol Harlee (Spring, 2000).
Undergraduate Thesis
Reader:
Distinguished Majors Thesis by Andrew Gray (Spring, 2006).
Distinguished Majors Thesis by Toby Skinner (Spring, 2000).
Undergraduate Advising:
College of Arts and Sciences,
University of Virginia. Fall, 1998 - Spring 2000. Fall 2002 — Spring
2004.
Advisor in the Echols Scholar Program. 22 lower-level advisees and one major
advisee.
Major Advisor: Department of Spanish, Italian and
Portuguese, University of Virginia. 1997-1998, Fall, 2000 - Present.
Currently advising twenty undergraduate Spanish majors.
Member of the executive committee, Division of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose, Modern Language Association of America. January 2005 – Present.
Member of the Central Executive Committee, Folger Institute, Washington, DC. May, 2005 – Present.
Member, Advisory Council for ÒMaps,Ó an exhibition of historical cartography organized by the Newberry Library at ChicagoÕs Field Museum of Natural History. March, 2005 – Present.
Chair, Faculty Senate
University of
Virginia, July 1, 2007 – May 31, 2008.
Chair-Elect, Faculty Senate
University of Virginia. July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007.
Director of Undergraduate
Studies
Department of Spanish, Italian and
Portuguese, University of Virginia. Fall, 2005 – Spring 2008.
Supervise various facets of the Department's undergraduate program in Spanish.
Program Assessment Coordinator
Department of Spanish, Italian and
Portuguese, University of Virginia. Fall, 2005 – Spring 2008.
Member, Search Committee for the
Dean of Arts & Sciences
University of Virginia. Spring 2007 – Spring 2008.
Member, Semester at Sea Academic
Advisory Committee.
University of
Virginia. Fall 2007 – Fall
2008.
Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Faculty and Staff Recruitment and Retention, PresidentÕs Commission on Diversity and Equity, University of Virginia. Spring 2003 – Present.
Member, PresidentÕs Commission on Diversity and Equity, University of Virginia. Fall 2003 – Present.
Faculty Mentor, for SPAN 330
Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, 2002-2003
Served as mentor and resource to two teaching assistants charged with serving
as instructors for an intermediate-level literary analysis course for the first
time.
Undergraduate Admissions
Committee. University of Virginia.
Committee Member, Fall, 2000 - Present.
Faculty Senate
At-Large Senator, 2004 – Spring 2008.
Representative of the Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of
Virginia. 1999-2000.
All-University Retreat, University of Virginia. Fall, 1999.
Session Facilitator
Lead discussion group on student
life and self government that included faculty, students, and administrators.
Director of Undergraduate
Studies
Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia. Fall,
1998 - Spring 2001.
Supervise various facets of the Department's undergraduate program in Spanish.
Director, Distinguished Majors
Program
Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia. Fall,
1998 - Spring 2001.
Advisor for four Distinguished Majors in Spanish. Responsible for recruitment
of students and for supervision of admissions process.
Faculty Fellow
Brown College, University of Virginia. Spring, 2000 - Spring 2008.
Search Committee for Dean of
Hispanic/Latino Students, University of
Virginia.
Committee Member, Summer and Fall of 1998.
Summer Research Fellowship,
University of Virginia, 2003-04.
American Council of Learned Societies. Library of Congress Fellowship in
International Studies, 2001.
John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowship, 2001. (Declined)
Newberry Library Research Fellowship, 2001. (Declined)
Alternate for Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Enhancement Grant, 2001.
Summer Research Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1999-2000
Outstanding Faculty Member. La Sociedad Latina, University of Virginia. 1999-2000.
Summer Research Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1998-99
Outstanding Faculty Member. La Sociedad Latina, University of Virginia. 1998-99.
Jacob K. Javits Fellow, 1992-97
Awarded Harvard Whiting Fellowship, 1996-97
Summer Research Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard, 1996
Summer Travel Grant, Department of Romance Languages, Harvard, 1996
Distinguished Teaching Award, Harvard, Fall 1995
Distinguished Teaching Award, Harvard, Spring 1996
President's Fellow, University of Virginia, 1991-92
Entering Fellow, University of Chicago Divinity School, 1989-91
Shannon Award for Academic Excellence, University of Virginia, 1989
Gooch Scholarship, University of Virginia, 1987-89
Phi Beta Kappa, 1989
Resident of the University of Virginia Lawn, 1988-89
Asociaci—n Internacional de
Hispanistas
Modern Language Association
Renaissance Society of America
Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry
Cervantes Society of America
Languages: Fluent in Spanish.
Reading knowledge of French, Portuguese, and Latin.
Place of Birth: Quito, Ecuador.
Associate Professor Alison Weber, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, U.Va., P.O. Box 400777, Charlottesville, VA 22904 (434) 924-7159. apw@virginia.edu
Associate Professor Ruth Hill, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, U.Va., P.O. Box 400777, Charlottesville, VA 22904 (434) 924-7159. rah8t@virginia.edu
Associate Professor Ignacio Navarrete, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley. 5319 Dwinelle Hall, #2590, Berkeley, CA 94720-2590. (510) 642-0471. ignacio@socrates.berkeley.edu
Professor Mary M. Gaylord, Department of Romance Languages, Harvard University, 201 Boylston Hall, Cambridge MA 02138 (617) 495-2546. mgaylord@fas.harvard.edu