Jos茅 R. Cartagena-Calder贸n

Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; On leave for the 2024-2025 academic year
jose_cartagena-calderon@pomona.edu
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(909) 621-8993

With Pomona Since: 2006
Jose Cartagena-Calderon
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  • Expertise

    Expertise

    Jose Cartagena-Calder贸n鈥檚 research focuses on the literary and cultural production of Spain and the Americas from the late 15th through the 17th centuries, with special emphasis on the construction of early modern masculinities and non-normative sexualities, as well as aspects of self-perception, marginality, alterity, and other formative features of pre- and early modern identities.

    His research addresses the need in literary and cultural studies for more elaborate understandings of the relations of various masculinities to power, empire, ethnicity, class and sexuality in historically specific contexts.

    Research Interests

    Literary and cultural production of Spain and the Americas from the late 15th through the 17th centuries, with special emphasis on the construction of early modern masculinities and non-normative sexualities, as well as on aspects of self-perception, marginality, alterity, and other formative features of pre- and early modern identities.

    Areas of Expertise

    SPANISH

    • Colonial Latin American Literature
    • Pre- and Early Modern Spanish Literature
    • Postcolonial Criticism and Imperium Studies (early modern empire and nation formation)
    • Cultural Studies
    • Trans-Atlantic Studies
    • Iberian Semitic Studies (relations between Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Peninsula)

    GENDER

    • Gender and Queer Studies
  • Work

    Work

    Masculinidades en obras: el drama de la hombr铆a en la Espa帽a imperial (Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2008)

    鈥淐ervantes y las ficciones de la masculinidad,鈥 in Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Spanish Studies: Essays in Memory of Carroll B. Johnson (Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2008)

    鈥淟ope and the Matter of America: Approaching the Comedia from a Trans-Atlantic Perspective,鈥 in Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama (M. Greer and L. Bass, eds., MLA, 2006)

    鈥溌縀l h谩bito no hace al monje?: transvirilismo e indumentaria en el Quijote,鈥 in 1605-2005: Don Quixote Across the Centuries (J.P. Gabriele, ed., Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2005)

    鈥淟as paradojas de cuerpo, sexo y g茅nero en La Monja Alf茅rez, comedia famosa de P茅rez de Montalb谩n,鈥 in Actas del Congreso Internacional El Siglo de Oro en el nuevo milenio: Historia, cr铆tica y teor铆a literaria (C. Mata y M. Zugasti, eds., Eunsa, 2005)

    鈥淭rans-Atlantic Conquests and the Imagining of Imperial Masculinities in Lope de Vega鈥檚 El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Crist贸bal Col贸n, 鈥 Special Renaissance issue of Annals of Scholarship 鈥 Renaissance Transactions & Exchanges (W.J. Kennedy, guest ed.), 16:1-3, 155-173, 2004

    鈥溾樏塴 es tan rara persona鈥: sobre cortesanos, lindos sodomitas y otras masculinidades nefandas en la Espa帽a de la temprana Edad Moderna鈥 in Lesbianism and Homosexuality in Early Modern Spain (A. Saint-Sa毛ns and M.J. Delgado, eds., University Press of the South, 2000)

  • Education

    Education

    Ph.D.
    Harvard University

    M.A.
    New York University

    B.S.
    Haverford College

    Recent Courses Taught

    • Transvestite Drama of the Early Modern Period
    • Chevere: Advanced Spanish for Heritage Speakers
    • Don Quixote and Cultural Identity
    • Early Modern Women Writers in the Spanish Empire
    • Introduction to Literary Analysis
    • Poverty, Literature & Social Justice
    • Survey of Spanish American Literature
  • Awards & Honors

    Awards & Honors

    Stanford University; Hoefer Prize for Excellence Undergraduate Teaching, 2000; Annenberg Grant, 2003-2004

    University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2001-2003

    Harvard University, Graduate Prize Fellowship, 1992-1996

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