Romance Languages and Literatures

Sarah Beckjord

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

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Sarah Beckjord

Ph.D.

Contact

Lyons Hall 311D

Telephone: 617-552-6339

Email: sarah.beckjord@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Harvard University
  • M.A., Columbia University
  • M. Phil, Columbia University
  • Ph.D., Columbia University

Research Interests

Latin American Literature and Culture, with an emphasis on the colonial period and 19th century; Historiography; Narrative theory

Books

.听University Park: Penn State University Press, 2007.

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

鈥淟ove: Spanish America.鈥澨�Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque. Ed. Kenneth Mills and Evonne Levy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. 216-218.

鈥淓spect谩culos de la imaginaci贸n: La interpretaci贸n hist贸rica en los Comentarios reales.鈥� 400 a帽os de los Comentarios reales. Ed. Song No and Elena Romiti. Montevideo: Universidad de la Rep煤blica (Uruguay), Purdue University, and Aitana Editores, 2010, pp. 15-33.

鈥淕onzalo Fern谩ndez de Oviedo y la incipiente conciencia criolla en la historiograf铆a de Indias.鈥澨�Po茅ticas de lo criollo: Inestabilidad sem谩ntica y heterogeneidad identitaria. La transformaci贸n del concepto 鈥榗riollo鈥� en las letras hispaonamericanas (siglos XVI-XIX), ed.听David Solodkow and Juan Vitulli. Buenos Aires: Editorial Corregidor, 2009, pp. 62-79.

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Recent Papers and Presentations

鈥淢emory and Poetry in the Comentarios reales (1609).鈥� Annual Convention of the Renaissance Society of America, Montreal. March 28, 2014.

"Love in the Comentarios reales," Boston College, Radical Readings Workshop. Institute for the Liberal Arts, Chestnut Hill, MA. May 3, 2013.

鈥淪hipwreck and Spectacle in the听Comentarios reales.鈥澨�Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association. Brown University, Providence, RI. April 1, 2012.

鈥淎necdotes of Love in the听Comentarios Reales.鈥� Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Montreal. March 23, 2012.

鈥淭heaters of the Imagination in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega鈥檚听Comentarios Reales.鈥� Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Montreal. March 25, 2011.

鈥淧erformances of the Imagination in the听Comentarios Reales听by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.鈥� MLA Annual Conference, Los Angeles. January 8, 2011.

鈥淢emory and the Imagination in the听Comentarios reales.鈥澨�From Iberian Kingdoms to New World Empires: Spain, Portugal, and the New World, 1250-1700. A Conference at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Notre Dame University, South Bend. September 17-18, 2010.

鈥淟iteracy and the Imagination in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega鈥檚 Comentarios Reales.鈥� Atlantic World Literacies Conference. University of North Carolina, Greensboro, October 7-9, 2010.

鈥淒on Quixote and the Discourses of History.鈥� NEMLA conference, Boston, February 28, 2009.

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