Harry Vélez-Quiñones

Professor of Hispanic Studies

University of Puget Sound

1500 North Warner St. CMB 1073

Tacoma, WA 98416-1073

Wyatt Hall 237 - (253) 879-3269

E-mail: velez@pugetsound.edu 

FAX: (253) 879-3500

Internet: webspace.pugetsound.edu/facultypages/velez  

Cell: (206) 200-5285

 

 EDUCATION
1990 Ph.D., Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures
1983 A.M., Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures
1982 B.A., Washington University, Spanish & Sociology
 
DISSERTATION
“La celestinesca, la comedia y La Dorotea: Huellas de un intertexto”
Advisor: Francisco Márquez Villanueva

HONORS
2011 The Chism Fund in the Humanities and Arts: José Ignacio Valenzuela (2012)
2010 John Lantz Sabbatical Award from the University of Puget Sound (2011)
2009 Conference Funding Grant: Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities – Spanish Matters V (2010)
2009 Dolliver Seminar – “Teaching Difficult Texts”
2008 Instituto Cervantes Seattle Grant to fund Spanish Matters IV (2009)
2007 Burlington Northern – Team-taught Film Courses in the Humanities – (Participant)
2000 Martin Nelson Summer Research Grant from the University of Puget Sound (Summer 2001)
2000 Northwest Language Consortium: Multimedia Development Grant
1999 Faculty Fellow at Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury College
1997 Northwest Language Consortium: Multimedia Development Grant: Orfeo
1997 Project 2001 Summer Residence Grant: Middlebury College
1995 Martin Nelson Summer Research Grant from the University of Puget Sound (Summer 1996)
1995 Research Grant: Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities
1995 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
1995 Research Grant, University of Puget Sound
1993 Martin Nelson Junior Sabbatical Fellowship from the University of Puget Sound (Spring 1994)
1993 Cultural Currency Award from the University of Puget Sound (Spain / Summer 1993)
1992 Martin Nelson Summer Research Grant from the University of Puget Sound (Summer 1992)
1991 N.E.H. Summer Seminar Participant at Washington University
1989-1990 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow
1988-1989 Harvard Minority Graduate Fellowship
1982-1989 Harvard Tuition Fellowship
1986/1988 Certificate for Distinction in Teaching of the Harvard Danforth Centre in Teaching and Learning
1986-1987 Travelling Scholar at Seville University
1985 Travel Study Prize of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University for Excellence in Teaching

TEACHING
Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Puget Sound 1990-Present

Span. 101 & 102: Elementary Spanish
Span. 201 & 202: Intermediate Spanish
Span. 205/240: Current Affairs, Translation, and Creativity
Span. 230: Speaking of Spanish ... - Advanced Spanish Grammar
Span. 240: Studies in Spanish Business and Media
Span. 240: The Uses of Spanish 
Span. 250: Hispanic Civilization and Culture
Span. 270: Writing Seminar
Span. 301/300: Hispanic Literary Studies
Span. 312: Spanish Literature: An Overview
Span. 312: Spanish Literature: Machos Ibéricos
Span. 350: Spanish Cinema
Span. 401: Medieval Spanish Literature
Span. 402: Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
Span. 480: The Spanish Comedia of the Golden Age
Span. 480: Cervantes: From the Burlesque Sonnet to Don Quijote
Span. 480: The Spanish Novel 1978-1998
Foreign Langs. 380: An Archaeology of the “Boom” (English)
Foreign Langs. 300: Critical Theory & Practice (English)
Foreign Langs. 385: Don Quijote: The Quest for Modern Fiction (English)
Humanities 290: World of Film
Humanities 201: Arts, Ideas, and Society: Sallying Forth with Don Quixote

Visiting Northwest Faculty - ILACA Granada (Consortial Study Abroad Prog.)
Spring 2000, 2005, 2008, 2010

Hispanic Literary Studies (2005, 2008, 2010)
Spanish Masterpieces in their Locales: La Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes, Don Quijote, Fuenteovejuna, and El burlador de Sevilla (2000)

Visiting Associate Professor, Duke University Fall 1996
Span 151: Renaissance and Baroque Survey: Cervantes
Span 391: Graduate Seminar: Queering the Golden Age

PUBLICATIONS:
\ BOOKS

1.    Monstrous Displays: Representation and Perversion in Spanish Literature. University Press of The South, 1999.

2.    La celestinesca, la comedia y La Dorotea: Huellas de un intertexto. Colección Aquilafuente, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1994. [Microfiche].

3.    What Matters are Loose Ends: Reading Lope de Vega in the Twenty-first Century [in preparation]

\ ARTICLES:

1.    “‘Templa, pequeño joven, templa el brío’: Pretty Boys and Queer Soldiers in Miguel de Cervantes’s Numancia”. Early Modern Masculinity in Italy and Spain. University of Toronto Press, (2010)

2.    “Angels and Pilgrims: Gender Instability and its Containment in Las dos doncellas”. Essays in memory of Carroll Johnson. Juan de la Cuesta, (2008)

3.    “‘Entre verdad y mentira’: Woman and Metatheater in Lope de Vega’s Los amantes sin amor”. Bulletin of the Comediantes 47.1 (summer 1995) 43-54.  Reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, (2006)

4.    “Labyrinth of Errors: Celestinesque Ploys Against Death”’. Celestinesca, 1:29, (2006).

5.    “Barefoot and Fallen: Dorotea, Athena, Cervantes, and Homer.” Romance Quarterly, 52:4 (2005 Fall), pp. 281-93.

6.    Response to “Sex and Social Control”. La Corónica: A Journal of Medieval Spanish Language and Literature. Vol. 30.1 (Fall 2001)

7.    “Deficient Masculinity: Mi puta es el Maestre de Montesa”. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Vol. 1.2 (Spring 2001)

8.    “Miracles of Performance: Lope de Vega’s El Caballero del Milagro and Guillén de Castro’s El Narciso en su opinión”. Calíope: Journal of Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Daniel L. Heiple Festschrift (Fall 2000).

9.    “Concealing Pleasures: Cross-dressers, Tribades, and Sodomites in Lope de Vega’s El rufián Castrucho”. Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American, and Spanish Culture, University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.

10.  Mercaderes de su talle: Casandra, Beltranico, Julio, and Laura at an Inn or in Ferrara”. Lesbianism and Homosexuality in Early Modern Spain, University Press of the South, 2000.

11.  Capones, italianos, hermitaños y lindos: Towards a Queer Subjectivity in Golden Age Poetry”. Calíope: Journal of Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Vol. 5.1 (Summer 1999).

12.  “An Office of Discretion: The Praise of Alcahuetería in Cervantes and Lope de Vega”. Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura, Vol. 14.1 (Fall 1998).

13.  “Babylon in Seville: Mockery and Praise of Honor in Lope de Vega’s La vitoria de la honra”. A Society on Stage: Selected Proceedings, New Orleans: University Press of The South, 1998.

14.  “Juan, José and Millás: Memory, Desire, and Literary Identity in Juan José Millás’s Volver a casa”. Revista Hispánica Moderna, XLIX, Junio 1996, no. 1, Columbia University.

15.  “Monstrous Friendship: The Dynamics of Homosocial Desire in Lope de Vega’s El amigo hasta la muerte”. Journal for Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 7.1 (1995), University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

16.  Entre verdad y mentira: Woman and Metafiction in Los amantes sin amor”. Bulletin of the Comediantes, Summer 1995.

17.  “Cruel and Pathetic Dissonance: The Grotesque and the Celestinas”. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 29 (1995), Washington University.

18.  “Leyendo a dos Belas: La Dorotea como anti-celestina”. La Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, IX, 36, Octubre-Diciembre, 1995.

19.  “Celestina ‘a lo divino’: el caso de la Tragedia Policiana”. Celestinesca, Vol. 17 no. 1, May 1993, Michigan State University.

20.  “Perversa monstruosidad: Estrategias de resistencia cultural en L’agneau carnivore de Agustín Gómez Arcos.” Escritores españoles exiliados en Francia. Agustín Gómez Arcos: Actas del coloquio celebrado en Almería. Instituto de Estudios Almerienses. 1992.

 

\ BOOK REVIEWS:

1.    Cartagena-Calderón, José. Masculinidades en obras: el drama de la hombría en la España imperial. Book Review for Hispanic Review. (2009)

2.    Velasco, Sherry. Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain. Book Review for Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. (2008)

3.    Thompson, Peter. The Triumphant Juan Rana: A Gay Actor of the Spanish Golden Age. Book Review for Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. (2008)

4.    Berco. Christian. Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status. Men, Sodomy and Society in Spain’s Golden Age. Book Review for Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. (2008)

5.    Donnell, Sidney. Feminizing the Enemy: Imperial Spain, Transvestite Drama, and the Crisis of Masculinity. Book Review for Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. (May 2004)

6.    Lope de Vega, Quien más no puede. Edited by Laura Naldini. Book Review for Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. (2004)

7.    Andrés de Claramonte. El ataúd para el vivo y el tálamo para el muerto. Ed. Alfredo Rodríguez López-Vázquez. Book Review for Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. (1998)

8.    Eduardo González. The Monstered Self. Book Review for Comparative Literature. (1995)
 

PAPERS

1.      “‘Lición de llevar chapines’: Gender Performance and Footwear in Guillén de Castro’s La fuerza de la costumbre”, Modern Language Association Conference, Seattle 2012.

2.      “Abjection and Early Modern Spanish Lyric Poetry”, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, November 2011.

3.      “The Dream of Olmedo: Vanitas and Death in Lope, Pereda and Camprobín”, Death in Images and Words Conference, Texas Tech University, October 2008.

4.      “Deportment, Reading and Passing: La española inglesa and the Three Virtuous Isabellas”, 20th Annual Cervantes Symposium of California, University of California, Berkeley October, 2008.

5.      “The Dream of Olmedo: Trophies of Vanity in Lope, Pereda and Camprobín”, Image and Illusion in Early Modern Spain Symposium, Duke University, October 2008.

6.      “Picaresca, comedia y resistencia cultural: Una travesía desde The Carnivorous Lamb a El cordero carnívoro”, Diputación Provincial de Almería, June 2008.

7.      “Escabeches en Laredo: Poetambre y abyección en la temprana edad moderna”, Society for Hispanic Renaissance and Baroque Poetry Conference, Córdoba, October 2007.

8.      “Questing after the Golden Age: Cervantes, Don Quijote, and the Troubles of Studying Early Modern Spanish Literature”, Daedalus Society Dinner, University of Puget Sound, September 2007.

9.      “Aborrecerlas repugna la naturaleza de hombre: Perspectivas del deseo homoerótico en las comedias de Lope de Vega”, XVI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Paris, July 2007.

10.  “Quien te cubre, te descubre!: The Leaden Books of Sacromonte and the Apocryphal Gospel of Sancho Panza in Chapter 5 of the Second Part of Don Quijote de la Mancha”, 19th Annual Cervantes Symposium of California, Pomona College, April 2007.

11.  “Cada quien con su cada cual: Diego, Gutierre, and Luzmán or the Development of the Lindo from Lope de Vega to Agustín Moreto”, Renaissance Society of America Conference, Miami, March 2007.

12.  “‘Cada quien con su cada cual’: Diego, Gutierre y Luzmán o la trayectoria del lindo entre Moreto y Lope de Vega”, Congreso Internacional “Estrategias dramáticas y práctica teatral en Agustín Moreto, Universidad de Burgos, November 2006.

13.  “En clave de bululú: la Fuenteovejuna de Steven Wagenseller y la piedra filologal”, La puesta en escena de los clásicos, Instituto Cervantes, Chicago, October 2006.

14.  “‘Descíñetela luego!’: The Homoerotics of Pleasing One’s King in Lope de Vega’s Quien más no puede”, 59th Annual Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 2006.

15.  “‘Templa, pequeño joven, templa el brío’”: Pretty Boys and Queer Soldiers in Miguel de Cervantes’s Numancia. AHCT Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, March 2006.

16.  “The Wrath of Don Fernando: Dorotea, Athene, Cervantes and Homer”, Cervantes Symposium, The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, April 2004.

17.  “Phoenix Rising: Reading Lope de Vega for the Twenty-first Century”, Renaissance Society of America Conference, April 2004.

18.  “Las bizarrías del Fénix: configuraciones heterodoxas del deseo en las comedias de Lope de Vega”, El Siglo de Oro en el Nuevo Milenio, Coloquio del GRISO, Universidad de Navarra, September 2003.

19.  Valor, bizarría, and mujer: On the Limits of Queering, Representation and Performance in Golden Age Drama”, ACHT Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, March 2003.

20.  “Going to the Source: Búcaros, Cántaros, and Lesbian Desire in Lope de Vega’s La moza de cántaro”, 55nd Annual Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 2002.

21.  “Doña Ana’s Vase, or the Erotic Value of Drinking Water in Lope de Vega’s La moza de cántaro”, De la otra orilla… Homenaje a Francisco Márquez Villanueva, UCLA, April 2002.

22.  “The Quest for the Golden Age: Cervantes, Don Quijote, and La española inglesa” [Lecture], North Carolina State University - Raleigh, November 2001.

23.  “Brotherly Love: The Cultural Anxieties of Queer Iberia” [Response], Return to Queer Iberia Conference, October 2001.

24.  Fuente Ovejuna as Romp: Mengo’s Rump” [Lecture], Emory University, April 2001.

25.  “Deficient Masculinity: Mi puta es el Maestre de Montesa”. 54th Annual Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 2001.

26.  Fuente Ovejuna as Romp: Mengo’s Rump” [Paper], ACHT Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, March 2001.

27.  “Utilización de la WEB como recurso didáctico” [Multimedia presentation], Centro de Lenguas Modernas de la Universidad de Granada. March 2000.

28.  “No es tan fiero el león...: Las nuevas tecnologías y la enseñanza de las lenguas extranjeras” [Multimedia presentation], Universidad de Málaga. March 2000.

29.  “Is This Spanish?: From Foreign Language Student to Information Provider”, Syllabus99, July 1999.

30.  Fuente Ovejuna as Romp”, 52nd Annual Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 1999.

31.  “Miracles of Performance: Lope de Vega’s El caballero del milagro and Guillén de Castro’s El narciso en su opinión”, ACHT Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium. March, 1999.

32.  “Labyrinth of Errors: Celestinesque Ploys against Death”, Modern Languages Association Conference (La Celestina Quincentennial Session: “Celebrating La Celestina: 1499-1999”), December, 1998.

33.  “Angels and Pilgrims: Gender Instability and its Containment in Las dos doncellas”, Modern Languages Association Conference (Cervantes Society of America Session), December 1998.

34.  “Todos a una: Multimedia Technologies and the Teaching of the Comedia”, Modern Languages Association Conference, December 1998.

35.  Para mayores desengaños: Deviance and Diversity in Lope de Vega’s La moza de cántaro”, 51st Annual Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 1998.

36.  En fin, mujer: Lope de Vega’s emblematic visions of women and El saber puede dañar”, Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Literature. February 1997.

37.  “Babylon in Seville: Mockery and Praise of Honor in Lope de Vega’s La vitoria de la honra”, A Society on Stage Conference. November, 1996.

38.  Capones, italianos, hermitaños y lindos: Towards a Queer Subjectivity in Golden Age Poetry”, The Powers of Poetry in Spanish, Latin American, and Latino/a Literatures Conference. October, 1996.

39.  “Exposing the Beast: The Struggle for Survival in Benito Pérez Galdós’s Doña Perfecta”, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. September, 1996.

40.  “An Office of Discretion: The Praise of alcahuetería in Cervantes and Lope de Vega”, 49th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 1996.

41.  “Exposing the Beast: The Struggle for Survival in Benito Pérez Galdós’s Doña Perfecta”, Modern Languages Association Convention. December 1995. (Paper accepted but undeliverable as per MLA regulations limiting scholarly presentations)

42.  “Mercaderes de su talle: Aurora, Beltranico, Laura y Julio en un mesón o en Ferrara”, Modern Languages Association Convention. December, 1995.

43.  “De putas viejas y mochachas: modelos celestinescos de las damas de la comedia de Lope de Vega”, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. October 1995.

44.  “Monstrous Friendship: The Dynamics of Homosocial Desire in Lope de Vega’s El amigo hasta la muerte”, Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Literature. March 1995.

45.  “Juan, José and Millás: Memory, Desire, and Literary Identity in Juan José Millás’s Volver a casa”, 36th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association. November 1994.

46.  “Strangers to their Kind: Wildness, Abjection and Primitivism in Nacimiento de Ursón y Valentín and El animal de Hungría”, 47th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 1994.

47.  “The Problem with Harry: Making it with Rechy”, 35th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association. November 1993.

48.  “‘Entre verdad y mentira’: Woman and Metafiction in Los amantes sin amor”, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. October 1993.

49.  “Concealing Pleasures: Cross-dressers, Tribades, and Sodomites in Lope de Vega’s El rufián Castrucho”, 46th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 1993.

50.  “Celestina ‘a lo divino’: el caso de la Tragedia Policiana”, Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Literature. February 1993.

51.  “The Monsters of Ferrara: Sodomy, Incest and Murder in El castigo sin venganza”, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. October 1992.

52.  La Dorotea como anti-celestina”, 45th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 1992.

53.  “Perverse Monstrosities: Strategies for Cultural Resistance in Agustín Gómez Arcos’s L’agneau carnivore”, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. October 1991.

54.  “Transformación y parodia: La Celestina y la Comedia Thebaida”, 44th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 1991.

55.  “Un desacorde cruel y patético: lo grotesco en la literatura celestinesca”, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. October 1990.

 

MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT
Spanish 201: Intermediate Spanish 1st. Semester
Foreign Languages 380: “The Boom”
Spanish 202: Intermediate Spanish 2nd. Semester
Spanish 201-202 Intermediate Spanish (2001...)
Spanish 230: Speaking of Spanish... 
Spanish 401: Literatura Medieval

Spanish 402: Literatura del Siglo de Oro 
Spanish 301: Introducción a la literatura hispánica

Spanish 350: Spanish Cinema
Spanish 240: The Uses of Spanish (2001)
Spanish 240: The Uses of Spanish (1999)
Spanish 480: The Spanish Novel 1978-1998
Spanish 480: Cervantes
Spanish 480: The Comedia
 
Spanish Masterpieces in their Locales
Foreign Languages 300: Critical Theory & Practice
Orfeo / Orpheus: A Collective of Expression
Free & Easy Stuff on the WWW
Fuente Ovejuna
Syllabus 99
Granada 2000, Granada 2005 and Granada 2008
Race and Pedagogy Conference Blog
"Getting Started in Digital Humanities with DHCommons," Pre-Conference Workshop: Modern Language Association Convention (Seattle 2012)
NWALLT/SWALLT Conference: Panel organizer and presenter: “Doing a Number on it: Going Crazy with Blackboard and Embracing Moodle en español”, Reed College (October 2010)
NITLE event participant and presenter: Willamette University (July 2006), Wabash College (September 2006), Reed College (October 2006)
Faculty Fellowship, Middlebury College, (Summer 1999)
Culpeper Summer Workshop - 2000, Presenter
Northwest Language Consortium Conference, Aug 3-5, 2000, University of Puget Sound, Presenter
Northwest Language Consortium Conference, May 25-28, 1999, Willamette University, Presenter
Northwest Language Consortium Conference, May 26-29, 1998, Whitman College, Presenter
Northwest Language Consortium Conference, September 20-21, 1997, Lewis & Clark College, Presenter
Advanced Faculty Workshop in Instructional Technology, Middlebury College, (Summer 1997)
Puget Sound’s Representative to the Mellon-Middlebury Technology and Language Instruction Conference, (Summer 1997)
Puget Sound’s Representative to the Mellon-Middlebury Technology Seminar, (Summer 1996)


SERVICE
1990-Present:
Speakers Invited: José Ignacio Valenzuela, Pilar Úcar, Eva González Abad, Oswaldo Estrada, María Mercedes Carrión, María Judith Feliciano, Kate Regan
Summer Research Advisor – Kyle Nunes: Narrative Theory & The Fiction of Julio Cortázar
Seattle Latino Film Festival Board
Diversity Advisory Council
Race and Pedagogy Conference – Steering Committee
Diversity Committee
Universal Junior Sabbatical Proposal
Wednesday at Four – Library Sponsored Event on NITLE/Storytelling Workshop
Crosscurrents – Reviewer
Charlas Program – Faculty Advisor
Curriculum Committee
Study Abroad Selection Committee
Spanish House
Latin American Studies Advisory Committee
Comparative Literature Major Committee
Puget Sound’s Delegate to the Northwest Consortium’s First Year Seminar Conference at Reed College
1996-1999 Regional Delegate to the Modern Language Association Assembly
Spanish Search Committee Member (1996-1997)
Fall Campus Day (Fall 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000)
French Search Committee Member (1997-1998)
1997-2001 Mellon Project - Puget Sound’s Delegate to the NWLC’s Steering Committee
1997-2000 Puget Sound’s Hearing Board Roster
Spanish Instructor Search Committee Member (1998)
Acting FL&L Chair, May-June, 1998
Spanish Search Committee Member (Tenure Lines)
Spanish Search Committee Member (3 Yr. Visiting Professorships)
Spanish Search Committee Member (One-year Visiting Professorships and Instructorships)
OIS - Search Committee Member (Wyatt Support Staff Position)
Culpeper-Rockefeller Brothers Grant: Co-Director (Spring 2000-Fall 2000)
Wyatt Hall Open House - 2000 - Foreign Language Classroom Demo.

Peer Review Reader -
El espacio doméstico y la identidad masculina en textos españoles del Renacimiento.  Juan de la Cuesta.  (2010)
The Outrageous Entremeses of Juan Rana: A Bilingual Edition
. University of Toronto Press. University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain. Vanderbilt UP, 2006.
- South Atlantic Review (1 article)
- Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (2 articles)
- Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1 article)
- Hispanic Review (1 article)
- Gestos  (1 article)

Outside Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion Cases -
Baltasar Fra Molinero – Bates College – Promotion to Full Professor
Julio González Ruiz – Spelman College – Tenure
José Cartagena Calderón – Pomona College – Tenure