Villanova University
March 17 - 19, 2005

PROGRAM

March 17, Thursday

March 18, Friday

March 19, Saturday

 Thursday, March 17, 2005 

8:30 - 9:00      Connelly Center Lounge

                     Registration, coffee, pastry

                     Opening Remarks: Silvia Nagy-Zekmi

                     Chair, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures


9:00 – 10:30 Bryn Mawr Room, Connelly Center 

 

 1. Don Quixote and the English world

Moderator: Rebecca Winer, Villanova University

1. Christopher R. Orchard, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

“Festivous Notes upon Don Quixote: Cervantes and Reformed Theatre in 1650s England”

 2. Bryan Scoular, NYU

“’From Hell There is No Retention’: The Legacy of Cervantes in Gothic Fiction”

 3. Scott Black, Villanova University

“The Legacy of Quixote: Reading and Anachronism in Joseph Andrews”


 9:00 – 10:30 Haverford Room, Connelly Center 

 

 2. Peninsular Legacies of Don Quixote I  

Moderator: Mercedes Juliá, Villanova University

1.  Judy B. McInnis, University of Delaware

“The Divine Madness of Don Quijote: José Echegaray’s Neoromantic Obsesión”

2. Rebeca Toly, Villanova University

“The Return of the King: Quijote as a Parody of a Christian Knight.”


10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break


11:00 – 12:30 Bryn Mawr Room, Connelly Center 

 

3. Interpretaciones y parodia de la obra cervantina

Moderator: Carmen Peraita, Villanova University

1. Erika Sutherland, Muhlenberg College

“Fleshing Out Quijote: In Search of a Well-Rounded Reading” 

2. Antonio Arreguín Bermúdez, California State University, Chico

“Escrutinio del legado cervantino en La señora de los sueños de Sara Sefchovich”

3. David Miralles, University of Oregon

"Algunas reflexiones sobre el Curioso Impertinente: una teoría de los valores o sobre otro origen de la modernidad"


11:00 – 12:30 Haverford Room, Connelly Center 

 

4. Intertextual Plays: Cervantes’ Sources and Influences

Moderator: Rolando Morelli, Villanova University

1. Sean McDaniel, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

'Amante liberal' as Imitation of Heliodoros

2. Javier Irigoyen-García, University of Pennsylvania

“Industria, intencionalidad y teleología: la denegación de la enmienda en el comentario del cura sobre Tirante el Blanco”

3. Shifra Armon, University of Florida

“El reloj de Barataria: Cortesía y buen gobierno en Don Quijote II.”


12:30 – 2:00 Lunch.  Please see: Where to eat at Villanova


2:00 – 3:30 Cinema, Connelly Center 

 

5. Plenary Session: Cervantes en América

Organizer: Luis Correa-Díaz University of Georgia

1. Consuelo Triviños (Instituto Cervantes, Madrid),

“Cervantes en Colombia”

2. Juan Armando Epple (Oregon University)

“La microficción cervantista en Latinoamérica”

3. Luis Correa-Díaz (University of Georgia)

“Motocycle Diaries: un Quijote adolescente por América”


3:30 – 4: 00 Coffee break 


4:00 – 5:30  Cinema, Connelly Center

Keynote Speech: Antonio Muñoz Molina,  Writer, Director of the Instituto Cervantes, New York, Member of the Royal Academy of Spain.

 

"Un eco quijotesco en Faulkner: la locura literaria del preso alto en The Wild Palms"

 

Introductory Remarks:

Mercedes Juliá, Villanova University


6:00 – 7:00  Falvey Library : Reception 

Welcome: Dr. John Johannes,

Vice President for Academic Affairs


 7:30 – 8:30  Cinema, Connelly Center :

Entremés de Cervantes: La cueva de Salamanca

Staged Reading in English

                                  Theater Department of Villanova University


      Friday, March 18, 2005

 

8:30 – 9:00 Coffee, etc.


 9:00 – 10:30  Cinema, Connelly Center 

 

6. Filmic Representations of Don Quixote

Moderator: Lee Abraham, Villanova University 

1. Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Bates College

“Don Quijote and Nurse Betty: Racial Dystopia in an American Film”

2. Richard Seybolt, University of Minnesota at Duluth

“Don Quijote and Contemporary Culture: The Case of Reality Television”

3. Lourdes Bueno, Austin College

El caballero Don Quijote o El homenaje personal de Gutiérrez Aragón a Cervantes”


9:00 – 10:30 Bryn Mawr Room, Connelly Center 

 

7. Possibilities of  Reading  Don Quixote

Moderator: Moderator: Rebecca Cherico, Villanova University

1. Horacio Chiong Rivero, Swarthmore College

“The Knight of the Lions: Feline Folly in Don Quixote

2. Javier Lorenzo, East Carolina University

“From cocos to escudos: Varieties in Humor in the Adventure of the Enchanted Boat (Don Quixote II, 29).

3. Jesús Freire, SUNY Oswego

"La interpretación del arte en Don Quijote a través de la teoría de Martín Buber"


10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break


11:00- 12:30  Cinema, Connelly Center 

 

8. Narrative Divisions and Contretemps in Don Quixote

Moderator: Seth Whidden, Villanova University

1. Georges Mathieu, Université de Franche-Comté

“Some Hints about Chapterization in the First Part of Don Quixote”

. Michael W. Joy, Presbyterian College

“To Name the Impossible Name: Derrida’s Contretemps and the Name in Don Quixote”

3. Michael Beilfuss, SUNY New Paltz

“An Intellectualized (Auto)Biography: The Multiple Layers of Metafiction in Cervantes’ Don Quijote


11:00 - 12:30 Bryn Mawr Room, Connelly Center 

 

9. Cervantine Works

Moderator: Estrella Ogden, Villanova University

1. Elisa E. Ramírez, Eastern University

El casamiento engañoso de Cervantes analizado según el modelo de análisis morfológico de Vladimir Propp  

2. Luis A. Gómez, La Salle University,

“La estética de la verosimilitud en la Galatea” 

3. Mark T. DeStephano, S.J. Saint Peter’s College

“Lenio and Tirsi Debate Truth and Desire: Book IV of La Galatea


12:30 – 2:00 pm. Lunch Where to eat at Villanova


2:00 – 3:30 pm. Cinema, Connelly Center 

 

10. Special Session: Cervantes and the Postmodern Hispanic Legacy

Organizer: Mercedes Juliá, Villanova Univetsity

1.  Enrique Sacerio Garí, Bryn Mawr College,

"Borges y la producción de Pierre Menard."

2.  Wesley Weaver, SUNY Cortland,

"Aparición del eterno cervantino:  supervivencias del Quijote en la novelística de Álvaro Pombo."

3.  Nuria Morgado, College of Staten Island (CUNY),

"Resonancias cervantinas en la narrativa de Antonio Muñoz Molina y Luis Landero."


2:00 – 3:30 pm. Bryn Mawr Room, Connelly Center 

 

11.  Marginal Worlds, Magic Spaces in Don Quixote

Moderator:Carmen Peraita, Villanova University

1. Antonia Petro, Loyola Marymount University

“Los locos del Quijote”

2. Raquel Amorim, Vanderbilt University

“El mundo marginal y lo grotesco en Don Quijote: fuentes de humor en la obra”

3. Lisa Wenger (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

” Magical Realism’s Debt to Don Quixote


3:30 – 5:00 pm. Cinema, Connelly Center

 

12. Latin American Legacies and Repercussions of Don Quixote

Moderator: Carlos Trujillo, Villanova University

1. Anita Figueroa, Rutgers University

“Los ideales del “ingenioso hidalgo” en la fundamentación de la nación chilena: El Movimiento Literario de 1842”

2. José Hernán Córdova, Wilson College

“Los capítulos que se le olvidaron a Cervantes. Ensayo de imitación de un libro inimitable de Juan Montalvo”

3. Patricia Vilches, Lawrence University

“Un problema de dinero: relaciones político socio-económicas en textos de lectores coloniales”


3:30 - 5:00 Bryn Mawr Room, Connelly Center 

 

13. Economic and Legal and Gender Discourses in Cervantes 

Moderador: Inna Rayevsky, Villanova University

1. Darío Fernández-Morera, Northwestern University

“Economic Law, Don Quijote’s Golden Age Speech, and Sancho’s Governorship”

2. William Childers, Brooklyn College, CUNY

“Legal Discourse in Don Quixote”

3. Carrie Prettiman, Cedar Crest College

“Cervantes and Eros: a Non-Freudian Re-Visioning”


5:00 - 5:30 Coffee break


5:30 –7:00  Auditorium, Bartley Building 1011

 

14. Special session: Cultural Hybridities, Imperial Ideologies

Organizer: Asima Saad Maura, Temple University 

1. Lucas Marchante Aragón, William and Mary College

“Las armas de los bisabuelos: el Quijote y la fabricación imperial de la historia” 

2. Israel Burshatin, Haverford College

“La Mancha en llamas: Don Quijote, Paris is burning y la actuación cultural”

3. Marina Brownlee, Princeton University
”Cervantine Hybridity”


7:30 – 10:00 pm  Villanova Conference Center Banquette

(transportation provided)

Greetings: Rev. Kail Ellis, O.S.A.,

Dean of Arts and Sciences


 Saturday, March 19, 2005

 

 8:30 – 9:00      Coffee, etc.


 9:00 – 10:30 Bryn Mawr Room, Connelly Center

 

15. Marcela: Gender and Translations 

Moderator: Béatrice Waggaman, Villanova University

1. Amy Michele Wright, University of Denver

“Mothering a Feminine Dialectic: Cervantes’ “Murderous Shepherdess” Marcela as Medusa”

2. Linda S. Lefkowitz, Lehigh University

“Reading Marcela in English: Translating Gender in Don Quixote

3. Marc Charron, Université de Québec en Outaouais

“Making Sense Today: a Critical Reading of the Prologue to the First Part of the Quixote in Recent French and English Translations”


9:00 – 10:30 Haverford Room, Connelly Center

 

16. On Don Quixote: Readings and Interpretations

Moderator: Charles Helmetag, Villanova University

1. Rebecca Cherico, Villanova University

“Unamunian Quijotismos” 

2. Christopher Britt Arredondo, George Washington University

“Quixotism or the Cultural Roots of Spanish Fascism” 

3. Ryan Prendergast, University of Rochester

“Inquisition, Spectacle and Don Quixote” 


10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break


11:00 – 12:30 Bryn Mawr Room, Connelly Center

 

17. Cervantes y su época

Moderator: Salvatore Poeta, Villanova University

1. Manuel Colás-Gil, The Johns Hopkins University

“Early Modern Seville and Cervantes”

2. Teresa Chamizo Vega, Temple University

“La naturaleza en el Quijote: las hierbas y sus virtudes, los árboles y la Sierra, los animales”

3. Nancy DeHonores, Texas Women's University

"Realismo y Universalidad del Quijote: Repercusiones en la Literatura Posterior"


11:00 – 12:30 Haverford Room, Connelly Center

 

18. La educación en y de El Quijote

Moderador: Lee Abraham, Villanova University 

1. William Little, California Polytechnic State University

Quijote On-Line: Evolution of a Web-Assisted Don Quijote

2. Mirta Barrea-Marlys, Monmouth University

"Approaches to Teaching Don Quixote in the 21st Century: Integrating technology, film, and Sancho Panza"

3.Laure Riportella, Université de Lorraine

Don Quijote en clase, ¿Por qué? ¿Cómo?”

4. Mar Martínez-Góngora, Virginia Commonwealth University

“El discurso humanista de educación masculina y la problemática del hombre moderado en Don Quijote


12:30   Lunch (catered), Closure of the Conference.