Madera Gabriela Allan
Employment
• Associate Professor of Spanish, 2015-
- Assistant Professor of Spanish, Lawrence University, 2009-2015
- Instructor of Spanish, Lawrence University, 2008-2009
- Lecturer in Spanish and Freshman Studies, Lawrence University, Winter 2008
Education
- Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, August 2009
- M.A. in Hispanic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, December 2003
- B.A. in Spanish, Reed College, May 2001
Book
- Unveiled: First Accounts of the Lieutenant Nun, Catalina de Erauso, In Revision
Papers
- “An Elusive Minimal Pair: Taste and Caste in Inquisitorial La Mancha.” ehumanista 25 (2013): 94-106.
- “Shouting Distance: Local History and a Global Empire in Lope de Vega’s Famosa comedia del mundo nuevo descubierto por Cristobal Colón,” Imagining Early Modern Histories. Eds. Elizabeth Ketner and Allison Kavey. New York, NY: Routeledge, 2016.
- “’Un hombre sin barbas’: The Transgender Protagonist of La monja alférez (1626),” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 17.2 (2016).
Conference Papers
- Breaking Bread with Enemies: Juan de Chinchilla’s Challenge to Inquisitorial Community, Historians Of Medieval Iberia: Friends and Enemies, Stockholm, 2016
- La frontera: the Mediterranean in Cervantes and Lope’s Captivity Plays, MMLA convention, Detroit, 2015
- “Allí i acullá”: The Geography of Gender in the Early Accounts of the Lieutenant Nun, Annual Conference of the Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas, Lisbon, 2015
- What We Eat: The Debate over Diet in Inquisitorial Ciudad Real, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, NY 2014
- Culinary Artifice in La lozana andaluza, Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, WI 2013
- Not Fighting Fare: Debating Taste in Inquisitorial La Mancha, Forty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI 2013
- Bridging the Atlantic Poetically: Catalina de Erauso’s Place in Spain’s Imperial Literary Tradition, Annual Conference of the Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas, Portland, OR 2012
- Beardless and Beplumed: Rewriting Heroism in La Monja Alférez, Annual Comparative Literature Conference of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 2012
- Communities of Taste: Multiculinarism in the Trials of the Lima Inquisition, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Montreal, CA 2011
- The Victims of Autoethnography: Representing Spain in Cervantes’s Constantinople, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA 2010
- Pork in Constantinople: Intercultural Encounters in the Ottoman Empire, Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL 2010
- Eating What Thou Art: Food and Identity in Guzmán de Alfarache, Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL 2010
- Shared History: Lope de Vega’s Radical Proposition, Annual Convention of the North East Modern Language Association, Montreal, CA 2010
- Dietary Inquisition: Crypto-Jewish Palates and Colonial Power Relations in Lima, as part of a “Year of the Humanities Colloquium” commemorating the 400th anniversary of Comentarios Reales de los Incas, Madison, WI 2009
- The Dubious Fruits of Empire, Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Philadelphia, PA 2008
- Crypto-Cuisine: Culinary Ritual and Subjecthood in the Early Spanish Inquisition, Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Miami, FL 2007
- The Ethics of Madness: Don Quixote and the Question of Other Mind Skepticism, Eleventh Annual Graduate Romanic Association Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2005
- Playing Poet at the Trastámara Court: Game Theory and the Cancionero de Baena, Ninth Annual Graduate Romanic Association Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2003
Conferences Organized and Panels Moderated
- Spain Pre-1700 (3 panels), MMLA, Detroit, upcoming
- Translatio: Cultural Exchange in Medieval Iberia II, Sponsored by IMANA, Forty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI 2014
- Outsider Views of Hispanic Culture, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New York, NY 2014
- Techne: Women’s Art and Artifice in Early Modern Iberia and the New World, a GEMELA panel at Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, WI 2013
- Polyglot Iberia, Forty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI 2013
- Vision and Madness: Eleventh Annual Graduate Romanic Association (GRA) Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2005
- Literary Conversions, as part of the conference Suspending (Dis)Belief: Fourth Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2004
- Traspasando y desarrollando entornos interpretativos, as part of the conference Trajectories, Transformations, Progressions, Tenth Annual Graduate Romanic Association (GRA) Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2004
- Bound, Unbound: Textuality Within and Beyond the Book, Third Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2003
Grants and Honors
- Excellence in the Humanities Summer Research Grant, Lawrence University, Summers 2011, 2012, and 2014
- Lawrence University Professional Development Start-Up Funds, 2009-2012
- Lawrence University Travel Grant, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014
- Summer Research Grant, University of Pennsylvania Department of Romance Languages, Summer 2003
- Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2002-2007
- Phi Beta Kappa, Reed College, 2001
Professional Service and Experience
- Lawrence University Committee on Faculty Governance, 2015-
- Main Hall Forum Coordinator, 2013-2015
- Lawrence Faculty Advisor for ACM Costa Rica, 2010-
- Vice President, Gamma Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 2012-2013, 2013-2014
- President, Gamma Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 2012-2013
- Member, External Review Team, Tico Scholarship Program, Costa Rica 2012
- Vice President, Gamma Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 2011-2012
- Chair, Committee on Teaching Development, 2010-2011
- Lawrence University Faculty Advisor for the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Costa Rica Program, 2010-
- Reader, College Board AP Spanish Language Exam, June 2010
- Translator, Freelance and Volunteer, 2002-2008
- Editorial Assistant, Hispanic Review, 2005-2006
- Research assistant for Professor Barbara Fuchs, 2003-2004
Courses Taught at Lawrence University (2008-)
- Spanish 102: Beginning Spanish
- Spanish 200: Intensive Spanish
- Spanish 201: Intermediate Spanish
- Spanish 320: Introduction to Literary Texts
- Spanish 405 (Ethnic Studies 481): Spanish Civilization and Culture
- Spanish 420: Comedia: Theory and Performance
- Spanish 470: Visions of Conquest
- Spanish 510: Survey I of Peninsular Literature
- Spanish 513: Translation in Context: the Theory, History, and Practice of Spanish Translation
- Spanish 550: Cervantes: Don Quijote
- Spanish 570: Postcolonial Theory and Narratives of the Conquest
- History 374: Visions of Conquest
- Freshman Studies 100: Freshman Studies I
- Freshman Studies 101: Freshman Studies II
- Environmental Studies 320: Community Reads on Farm City and Cheap
- Tutorials and Independent Studies: Entremés, Gender in the Comedia, Spanish Drama, Golden Age Literature, The Lieutenant Nun, Education in Guatemala City, Las novelas ejemplares, Renaissance and Baroque Literature, Senior Experience: Spanish Portfolio, Baroque Theatre in Spain, Translation: Theory and Practice, Al Andalus: Cultural History, Images of the Converso, Brazilian Film and Language, Plays on Captivity, Crypto-Jewish Communities
Courses Taught at the University of Pennsylvania (2003-2006)
- Spanish 110: Elementary Spanish
- Spanish 130: Intermediate Spanish
- Spanish 219: The Contexts of Hispanic Civilization
- WATU (Writing Across the University) Fellow for Cinema Mínimo
Professional Memberships
- Grupo de Estudios de la Mujer en España y Latino América 2012-
- Modern Language Association 2008-
- Renaissance Society of America 2007-
- Midwest Modern Language Association 2010-2011, 2013-2015
- Northeast Modern Language Association 2009-2010
- Group for Early Modern Culture Studies 2008-2009