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William Childers
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Assc Professor Department: Modern Languages and Literatures Location: 4239 Boylan Hall Phone: 718-951-5451 Fax: 718-951-4235 Email:
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I was an undergraduate in the heyday of literary theory, and I drank deeply from that well. My approach to literature in those days was mainly informed by philosophy. When I chose to focus on Cervantes and Golden Age studies in graduate school, I gradually began to cultivate a stronger interest in cultural history. But it wasn't until after I'd finished that I discovered the excitment of doing archival research. Once I was bitten by that bug, I couldn't get enough of it. So now everything I publish has an archival bent to it. I read across different kinds of texts, literary and non-literary. It's much more unpredictable, I find. The other thing I am committed to is making the texts of the past speak to our concerns in the present. So I am grounded in the sixteenth century, but also writing about what's going on today. It's un viaje de ida y vuelta, really, a round trip journey.
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University - 1997 (Spanish) MPhil, Columbia University - 1994 (Spanish) M.A., Columbia University - 1992 (Spanish) B.A., Reed College - 1987 (English) Areas of Expertise: Cervantes; the literature and culture of early modern Spain; theories of the Baroque; paired analysis of archival documents and literary texts; social history of Spain's ethno-religious minorities, especially the Moriscos (descendants of Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity). Books and Publications "Baroque Quixote: New World Writing and the Collapse of the Heroic Ideal." Forthcoming in Baroque New Worlds, Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup, eds. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 "Circumcision and The Captive's Tale." Forthcoming in a special number of Annals of Scholarship on the theme of "Don Quixote and Race" under the guest editorship of Baltasar Fra Molinero. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 "La modernidad barroca del Quijote." Forthcoming in El cervantismo en USA, Madrid: Polifemo, 2008. Georgina Dopico-Black and Francisco Layna, eds. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 "Moros en la Mancha: Pérez de Hita and the Morisco Question in Don Quixote, I." Forthcoming in the proceedings from the Hofstra University Don Quixote conference, November, 2004. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 "Spanish Mysticism and the Islamic Tradition." Article accepted by Allison Weber for the volume she is editing in the MLA Approaches to Teaching Series: Approaches to Teaching Saint Theresa and the Spanish Mystics. To appear in 2008. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 Review of Steven Wagschal's The Literature of Jealousy in the Age of Cervantes, forthcoming in Caliope. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 Review of Eric C. Graf, Cervantes and Modernity, Cervantes 27.2 (2007) 245-49. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007 "The Baroque Public Sphere." IN Reason and Its Others in Early Modern Spain and Italy, ed. David R. Castillo and Massimo Lollini. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006. [Hispanic Issues, volume 23] 165-85. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2006 Review of María Antonia Garcés, Cervantes en Argel, Anales Cervantinos 38 (2006) 396-400. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006 Transnational Cervantes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. (Books and Publications: Book) 2006 "Don Quixote and the War of the Alpujarras: The Historical Debasement of Chivalry as a Correlative to its Literary Parody." Hispania 88.1 (2005) 11-19. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005 "La pierna quebrada: Pre-cinematic Performance and the Deconstructive Gaze in Tristana and Camila." In Nora Glickman and Alejandro Varderi, eds. Bridging Continents. Cinematic and Literary Representations of Spanish and Latin American Themes. [Special 2005 Issue of Chasqui.] (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2005 "Legal Discourse in Don Quijote." Mester 34 (2005): 1-16. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005 "Oh, hideputa, bellaco, y como es catolico!": Sancho, Blasphemy, and the Baroque Public Sphere" In Carroll B. Jonson, ed. Don Quijote Across Four Centuries. Ppaers from the Seventeenth Southern California Cervantes Symposium. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 71-86 (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2005 "'Ese tan borrado sobreescrito': The Deconstruction of Lope's Religious Theater in El retablo de las maravillas and El rufián dichoso." Bulletin of the Comediantes 56:2 (2004) 241-68. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004 "Según es cristiana la gente: Antonio de Villaseñor and the Archival Record." Cervantes 24.2 (2004) 1-36. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004 Review of Barbara Simerka's Discourses of Empire: Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 8 (2004) 247-48. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004 "Recordando el futuro: Los moriscos cervantinos y la inmigración magrebí actual." Francisco Caudet and Kerry Wilks, eds. Estas primicias del ingenio: jóvenes cervantistas en Chicago. Madrid: Castalia, 2003. 73-98. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2003 "Chicanoizing Don Quixote: For Luis Andrés Murillo." Aztlán 27:2 (2002) 87-117. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002 "Orchestrating Happiness: The Interpolation Process in Don Quijote, I." Elizabeth Scarlett, ed. Convergencias Hispánicas. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2001. 245-60. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2001 Review of Anthony Cascardi, Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age. Cervantes 19 (1999) 154-57. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1999 Review of Carlos Romero's 1997 edition of Cervantes' Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda. Cervantes 19 (1999). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1999 "Correr la pluma: Multigeneric Composition in Don Quijote and Persiles." Mester 25 (1996) 119-46. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1996 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums "Ironies of Social Harmony in Don Quixote." Annual Fordham University Cervantes Lecture, April 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "Cervantes sin fronteras." Universidad Veracruzana, Jalapa. April 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 "The Repression and Resurgence of Arabic in Sixteenth-century Spain." Annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, Puebla, Mexico, April 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 "Manzanares, 1600: Una fiesta de 'Moros y cristianos' encabezado por un grupo de moriscos." 3rd Annual Conversos and Moriscos Conference, St. Louis University in Madrid, June 2006. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006 "El moro romántico y el morisco vecino en Castilla la Nueva hacia 1600: tres ejemplos." CUNY Graduate Center, February 2005. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005 "Zoraida's Return: Algerian Views of Cervantes' Captivity." MLA Annual Conference, Washington, Dec. 2005. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005 "Chicanoizing Don Quixote." Lecture at the Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College, November 2004. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004 "Dragging Cervantes Through the Centuries." Keynote Address, Transparent Borders, Graduate Student Conference, Romance Languages, University of Oregon, November 2004. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004 "Moriscos y conversos en un pueblo manchego: Quintanar de la Orden, 1570-1609" First annual Convivencia conference, St. Louis University, Madrid campus, May 2004. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004 "Counterconquest and Counterculture in the Codex Espangliensis." Montclair State Univesity, April 2003. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003 "Los moriscos manchegos: documentos para su historia." ALDEEU. Jaén (Spain). July 2003. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003 "'Debajo de mi manto al rey mato': The Place of Fiction in Cervantes." Hispanic Cultural Studies: The State of the Art. Tuscon, Arizona. September 2002. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002 "Magical Realism and Hybridity in Cervantes." MLA Annual Conference, New York, Dec. 2002. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002 "Recordando el futuro: Los moriscos cervantinos y la inmigración magrebí actual." Seminar: Jóvenes Cervantistas. Instituto Cervantes, Chicago. January 2002. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2002 "Internal Colonialism and Literary Form in Early Modern Spain." MLA Annual Conference, New Orleans, December 2001. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001 "Dorotea y el arte del olvido." MLA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. December, 2000. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000 "Pilgrimage and Social Change in Persiles y Sigismunda." MLA Annual Conference, Washington, DC. December, 2000. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000 "Don Juan and Capitalism." MLA Annual Conference in Chicago, December, 1999. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1999 |
