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)
• Post Tenebras Spero Lucem: El Quijote de la Segunda Parte desde el exilio español en América. Ana Laguna, Rutgers University Camden (New Jersey)
• Physiognomy and Authority in Barataria. Pablo García Piñar, Cornell University (New York)
• 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)
• El dantismo de Cervantes: Las fuentes protohumanistas del episodio de la Cueva de Montesinos. Pau Cañigueral Batllosera, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Massachusetts)
• The Montesinos Episode in Film: Dreams? Reality? Visual Effects? Angela Patricia Pacheco, Purdue University (Indiana)
• From El Toboso to the Cave of Montesinos: Don Quixote’s Transformational Authority. Dominick Finello, City University of New York (New York)
• 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)
• Reframing Exemplarity: El Caballero del Verde Gabán. Kathleen Bollard, University of Colorado Denver (Colorado)
• Embodied Carnivalization: Cognition in Don Quixote II and in Amadís. Felipe Fiuza, Purdue University (Indiana)
• Don Quixote II: A Covert Parody of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Jane Ratzer, University of Colorado Denver (Colorado)
• Verdad lúdica y el acto de lectura de Alonso Quijano. Carlos-Germán 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)
• Transformative Identities in Morisco Characters and Texts. Veronica E. Menaldi, University of Minnesota (Minnesota)
• Ricote y Ana Félix: Extirpación de miembros infecciosos y la construcción del cuerpo nacional en la España contrarreformista. Diana Galarreta, University of Virginia (Virginia)
• 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)
• Melisendra’s Mishap: On Don Quixote, Part II in the Poetry and Theatre of García Lorca. Nelson R. Orringer, University of Connecticut (Connecticut)
• Ana Félix: A Morisca Shahrazad in Don Quixote II. Ebtisam S. Mursi, Cornell University (New York)
• 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)
• The Anthropological Vision of Don Quixote. Michael J. McGrath, Georgia Southern University (Georgia)
• El arte de la memoria en la lectura del Quijote. Julia Domínguez, Iowa State University (Iowa)
• La Edad Media nunca existió: Hesíodo, Ovidio, don Quijote y la decadencia ontológica de la Edad de Oro. Alodia Martín-Martínez, Temple University (Pennsylvania)
• 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)
• Art and Ataraxia in Cervantine Representations of the Pastoral. John C. Parrack, University of Central Arkansas (Arkansas)
• Don Quixote II: Teoría, entretenimiento e imagen moderna. José Luis Suárez-García, Colorado State University (Colorado)
• Los epígrafes de la Segunda Parte del Quijote. Caitlin Brady, University of Colorado Boulder (Colorado)
• 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)
• Material Ironies: Numismatics, State Propaganda, and Ricote’s Coins. Chad Leahy, University of Denver (Colorado)
• 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)
• “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)
• 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)
• Altisidora’s Vision of the Book in Don Quixote. Gabriela Carrión, Regis University (Colorado)
• De protagonistas a espectadores: La representación de Claudia Jerónima ante don Quijote y Sancho. María Isabel Martín Sánchez, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
• Renegados, turcos, moriscos y cristianos: El episodio de Ana Félix. Kelly C. Moore, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
• 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)
• 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)
• Don Quixote in Barcelona: An Explanation of his Voyage to Catalonia. Antonio M. Rueda, Colorado State University Pueblo (Colorado)
• “. . . llenos de pies y de piernas humanas”: Don Quijote y Sancho Panza entran en Cataluña. Conxita Domènech, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)
• 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)
• Alonso Quijano, un viajero “romántico” avant-garde creador de sí mismo. Carlos Miguel-Pueyo, Valparaiso University (Indiana)
• Don Quixote in American Westerns. Jorge Latorre, Universidad de Navarra (Spain)
• 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)
• 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)
• El retablo de las maravillas en Concierto barroco por Alejo Carpentier. Amy Borja, University of Dallas (Texas)
• Quijano, Quijada, Quesada, or Heisenberg: Don Quixote II, Breaking Bad, and the Antihero. Stephen Hessel, Ball State University (Indiana)
• “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)
• El relativismo en el Caballero del Verde Gabán. Marcela Díaz Cabal, Universidad de Panamá (Panama)
• Turning the Inside Out: On Early Modern Psychological Theory and the Cruelty of the Duke and the Duchess. Bill Christensen, Southwestern University (Texas)
• The Theatrical Invention of Authorial Figures in Don Quixote, Part II. Ellen M. Anderson, York University (Canada)
• En las faldas de la Duquesa: Comedy, Monstrosity, and Cross-Dressing 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)
• 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)
• El humanismo cervantino y la episteme quijotesca en el Quijote de 1615. Nitzaira Delgado-García, University of California Los Angeles (California)
• 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)
• The Emotional Politics of Laughter in Don Quixote of 1615. Paul Michael Johnson, DePauw University (Indiana)
• Playing with Reality: Don Quixote and 21st Century Gaming. Ayelet Ishai, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
• “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)
• Las muchas muertes de Alonso Quijano, El Bueno. Andrés Lema-Hincapié, 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)
• Claims of Ownership of Don Quixote in Germany during the 1920 and 1930s. Gabriele Eckart, Southeast Missouri State University (Missouri)
• Oral Tradition and Critical Historiography in Mayans’s Biography of Miguel de Cervantes. Jonathan E. Carlyon, Colorado State University (Colorado)
• Don Quixote II Made in Brazil. Silvia Cobelo, Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
• 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)
• The Theatrical Education of Sancho Panza. Jennifer Brady, University of Minnesota Duluth (Minnesota)
• La relación amo-escudero vista desde una perspectiva social. Luz Margarita Riera Clavel, Universidad de Panamá (Panama)
• Sancho Panza, the Christian Prince: Social and Political Theories in Don Quixote (1615). Ryan Schmitz, Texas Christian University (Texas)
• 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