Yolanda Iglesias Curriculum Vitae February, 2015 Assistant Professor Office: Victoria College University of Toronto 91 Charles Street West Department of Spanish and Portuguese Toronto, ON M5S 1K7. CANADA & e-mail: y.iglesias@utoronto.ca Centre for Medieval Studies Tel: (416) 813-4088 Fax: (416) 813-4084 EDUCATION 2007: Ph.D. in Spanish Literature. Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. Boston University. Ph.D. Thesis: The parody of sentimental romance in La Celestina. Advisor: Prof. Irene Zaderenko. 2000: M.A. in Spanish Literature. Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. University of Western Ontario. MA Thesis: The Scientific Realism of Pérez Galdós: An analysis based on modern psychology. Advisor: Prof. Marjorie Ratcliffe. 1999: B.A. Honors in Spanish Literature. Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. University of Western Ontario. 1997: B.A. in Psychology. Department of Psychology. University of Western Ontario. MAJOR RESEARCH FIELDS Spanish Medieval Literature, with emphasis on courtly love, sentimental romance, and La Celestina. Spanish Renaissance Literature, with emphasis on celestinesque genre. Literature and Social History (Medieval and Renaissance time). Siete Partidas (Seven Part-Code) (Alfonso X) Theory of Adaptation. Theory of Parody. Spanish XIX Century Literature, with emphasis on Benito Pérez Galdós. 1
WORK EXPERIENCE 2011-present Assistant Professor. Department of Spanish and Portuguese &Centre for Medieval Studies. University of Toronto. 2007-2011: Assistant Professor. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Toronto 2006-2007: Research Associate. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Toronto 2000 2006: Teaching Fellow. Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. Boston University. 1999 2000: Teaching Assistant. Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. Western Ontario. 1997 1999: Instructor. Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. U. of Western Ontario. HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS _ 2014-2018: SSHRC Insight Grant. Main applicant: Enrique Fernández (University of Manitoba). Co-applicants: Raúl Álvarez-Moreno (University of British Columbia), Yolanda Iglesias (University of Toronto) and Rachel Schmidt (University of Calgary). Project Title: Archiving and interpreting five centuries of Celestina s visual culture. 2014: Travel Grant. Victoria College, at University of Toronto. 2013: Travel Grant. Victoria College, at University of Toronto. 2012-2014: CRIF (Curriculum Renewal Initiative Fund). Main investigator: Laura Colantoni. Coinvestigators: Susan Antebi, Cristina Cuervo, Yolanda Iglesias, Ana Perez-Leroux, and Rosa Sarabia. Project Title: Language Variation and its Cultural Representations Across the Spanish Curriculum. 2012: Travel Grant. Victoria College, at University of Toronto. 2010: Travel Grant. Victoria College, at University of Toronto. 2009: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Selected to attend the five weeks summer seminar titled Celestina and the Threshold of Modernity at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and directed by E. Michael Gerli, Commonwealth Professor of Hispanic Studies. 2009: Travel Grant. Victoria College, at University of Toronto. 2008: Senate Research Grant. Victoria College, at the University of Toronto. 2
2006: The Helen G. Allen Humanities Award of The Humanities Foundation. Boston University. 2005: Certificate of Appreciation from College of Arts and Sciences. Boston University. 2002: Member of the Phi Sigma Iota honor society. 2000-2006: Teaching Fellowship, Boston University. 2000: Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University of Western Ontario. 1999: Gold Medal for outstanding performance in the Honors B.A. in Spanish Literature, Western Ontario. 1999: Dean s Honor List, University of Western Ontario. PUBLICATIONS AND FORTHCOMINGS Books: Book: Una nueva mirada a la parodia de la novela sentimental en La Celestina. Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert. (febrero de 2009). (Title in English: A New Perspective on the Parody of Sentimental Romance in La Celestina). Reviews of this book o Álvarez-Moreno, Raúl. Corónica 40 (2012): 334-338. o Sherman Severin, Dorothy. Speculum 87 (2012): 565-567 o Saravia, José Morales. Iberoamericana 37 (2010): 214-216 o Rudolf Kerscher. Hispanorama 126 (2009): 78-79 Book: El realismo científico en la obra de Benito Pérez Galdós. Un análisis en función de los criterios de la psicología moderna. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Elaleph.com, 2006. (Title in English: The Scientific Realism of Pérez Galdós: An Analysis Based on Modern Psychology). Articles in Refereed Journals: Implicaciones legales de las seis muertes en La Celestina: Un acercamiento histórico literario (Title in English: Legal implications of the sixth deaths in La Celestina: An Historical and Literary Approach ) Romance Quarterly volume 62: 2, (Forthcoming January 2015) (ISSN 0883-1157). Aspectos legales y sociales del matrimonio: un acercamiento desde La Celestina y sus continuadores. (Title in English: Legal and Social Issues of Marriage: An Approach from La Celestina and its followers ) Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (Forthcoming). 3
Los grandes ausentes en la adaptación cinematográfica de La Celestina de Gerardo Vera: El humor, la parodia y el público. Lemir 17 (January 2013): 9-22. (Title in English: Great Absences in the Film Adaptation of Gerardo Vera s La Celestina: Humor, Parody, and the Public ) La prostitución en La Celestina: estudio histórico-literario. (Special Issue of La Celestina). Ed. Enrique Fernández Rivera and Antonio Cortijo Ocaña. E-Humanista. 19 (2011): 193-208. (Title in English: Prostitution in La Celestina: An Historical and Literary Analysis ) Rompiendo las cadenas: el libre albedrío en los personajes de La Celestina. Celestinesca. 34 (2010): 57-73 (Title in English: Breaking Chains: Free Will in the Characters of La Celestina ) Book reviews: Fuchs, Barbara, Larissa Brewer-García, and Aaron J. Ilika eds. and trans., The Abencerraje and Ozmín and Daraja. Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 139 pp. Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme. Forthcoming vol. 38:1 (Winter 2015) Geraldine Coates. Treacherous foundations betrayal and collective identity in early Spanish epic, chronicle, and drama. Tamesis: Woodbridge, Suffolk Uk. 2009. 237 pp. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Vol. 34.2: 392-93, 2010 Manuel da Costa Fontes. The Art of Subversion in Inquisitorial Spain. Rojas and Delicado. Purdue University Press: West Lafayette, Indiana. 2005. 346 pp. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Vol. 31.3: 518, 2008 WORK IN PROGRESS Articles Administración de la justicia durante la Edad Media según se recoge en las Siete Partidas. (Tittle in English: Justice Administration during Middle Ages as reflected in Seven Part-Code) La alianza matrimonial según las Siete Partidas (Title in English: Matrimonial Alliance according to Seven Part-Code). El (no) matrimonio entre Calisto y Melibea (Title in English: The (not) marriage betwen Calisto and Melibea) El papel de la Iglesia durante la Edad Media según las Siete Partidas (Title in English: The role of the Church role during Middle Ages according to Seven Part-Code). 4
TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Toronto Graduate Level: SPA 2060 H1: Graduate Seminar. Literature and Society of Castile in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance. SPA 2050 H1: Graduate Seminar. Adaptations of La Celestina SPA 2018 H1: Graduate Seminar. The Sentimental novel, La Celestina and Celestinesque genre Undergraduate Level: Language: SPA 320 Y1 Advanced Spanish. Course coordinator (2010-). SPA 320 Y1 Advanced Spanish Literature: SMC 406 H1: Medieval Seminar II: (Death and Society in the Middle Ages) SMC 360 H1: Vernacular Literature of the Middle Ages. SPA 490 H1: Independent Studies in Spanish. Title: Cinematographic and Theatrical Representations of La Celestina SPA 454 H1 Cervantes and Golden Age Narrative SPA 450 H1 Studies in Medieval Iberian Literature SPA 352 H1 Writing and Culture in Early Modern Spain SPA 258 H1 Introduction to Hispanic Literary Studies Boston University LS 111 First semester Spanish LS 112 Second semester Spanish LS 211 Third semester Spanish LS 212 Fourth semester Spanish LS 303 Composition and Conversation in Spanish I University of Western Ontario First semester Spanish Second semester Spanish 5
Third semester Spanish Fourth semester Spanish GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION Committee member o Rosmery Mujica Morales. Ph.D. Student. Monsters and Monstrosity in Brazilian Myths of National Identity (Field exams and Thesis proposal). Department of Spanish & Portuguese. Supervisor: Josiah Blackmore DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICES Research Committee (Chair) (2012-2013) Language Sequence Committee (2010-2011) (2011-2012) (2012-2013) (2014-2015) Awards Committee (2009-2010) (2014-2015) Fall Campus Day ( previously U of T Day / Discovery Day) (Fall 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014) Arts and Science March Break Open House (Spring 2008, 2009, 2010) PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS May 2014: El matrimonio según La Celestina y sus continuadores literarios dentro del canon legal y la actitud social de su tiempo (Title in English: The matrimony according La Celestina and his literary followers around the legal canon law and the contemporary social attitude ). Congress of Canadian Association of Hispanist. Brock University (St. Catharine, Ontario). April 2014: El matrimonio según La Celestina y sus continuadores literarios dentro del canon legal y la actitud social de su tiempo (Title in English: The matrimony according La Celestina and his literary followers around the legal canon law and the contemporary social attitude ). KFLC The Languages Literatures and Cultural Conference (Lexington, Kentucky US) June 2013: Implicaciones judiciales de las condenadas muertes en La Celestina: un estudio histórico literario (Title in English: Legal implication of the condemned deaths in La Celestina: An Historical and Literary Analysis ). First Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. St. Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) 6
June 2013: Implicaciones sociales y judiciales de las cinco muertes en La Celestina: un estudio histórico literario (Title in English: Social and Legal Implications of the Five Deaths in La Celestina: An Historical and Literary Analysis ). Congress of Canadian Association of Hispanist. University of Victoria (Victoria, British Columbia). May 2012: La adaptación cinematográfica de La Celestina: viejos problemas y nuevas soluciones. (Title in English: The representation of La Celestina: Old Problems and New Proposals ). Congress of Canadian Association of Hispanist. Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario) March, 2012: La adaptación al cine de La Celestina de Gerardo Vera: fidelidad al texto vs esencia literaria Invited lecture at University of Western Ontario. February, 2011: Introducción a don Juan Manuel y a El conde Lucanor dentro de la literatura didáctica medieval. Invited lecture at Maryland University. May 2010: Prostitution in La Celestina: An Historical and Literary Analysis. Congress of Canadian Association of Hispanist. Concordia University (Montreal) August 2009. Breaking Chains: Free Will in the Characters of La Celestina during the seminar Celestina and the Threshold of Modernity at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and directed by E. Michael Gerli. May 2009: Presentation of my book titled: Another Look at the Parody of Sentimental Romance in La Celestina. Congress of Canadian Association of Hispanist. Carleton University (Ottawa). April 2005: The parody of the Sentimental Romance in La Celestina. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky Lexington. October 2001: El debate entre Buero Vallejo y Alfonso Sastre: una interpretación nietzscheana. Invited lecture at University of Western Ontario. REFEREE ACTIVITIES Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos American Academy in Berlin ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES May 2014: Conference in honor of Marjorie Ratcliffe. Congress of Canadian Association of Hispanist. Brock University (St. Catharine, Ontario). Co-organizer with David Navarro. 7
May 2014: Tan lejos, tan cerca: amor, costumbres, muerte, religión y sociedad en la literatura medieval peninsular. Congress of Canadian Association of Hispanists. Brock University (St. Catharine, Ontario). Co-organizer with David Navarro. June 2013: Personajes y voces narrativas en la literatura medieval peninsular. Congress of Canadian Association of Hispanist. University of Victoria (Victoria, British Columbia). Coorganizer with David Navarro. May 2010: Conference in honor of Alan Deyermond. Congress of Canadian Association of Hispanist. Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec). Co-organizer with Rosa Garrido and Marjorie Ratcliffe. 8