María Antonia Garcés, Ph.D. in Spanish and Renaissance Studies from the Johns Hopkins University and M.A. in English from Georgetown University. An Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, she teaches Renaissance and Baroque Spanish Literature and Colonial Hispanic American Literatures. She specializes in literary and psychoanalytic theories, as well as cultural studies. Her special field of interest is in early modern contacts between Islam and Christianity in the Mediterranean, which has led her to study the question of the frontiers between geopolitical unities, nations, and communities, extending to the thresholds between cultural and religious traditions. This exploration also encompasses the frontiers between autobiography and fiction in literary texts, such as in Cervantes. At present, Professor Garcés is working on a book on renegades in the early modern Mediterranean, focused on the construction of individual and group identities that bypassed religious and political boundaries. She is the main editor and director of a collaborative research project with Professors Diana de Armas Wilson (Department of English, University of Denver) and Vincent Barletta (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University) that entails preparing a three-volume English translation of Antonio de Sosa’s Topographia, e historia general de Argel [Topography and General History of Algiers] (1612). This project received, in 2007, a 3-year NEH Collaborative Research Grant for $150,000.
In 2003, María Antonia Garcés received the Modern Language Association of America’s James Russell Lowell Prize for her book: Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale (Vanderbilt UP, 2002).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Cervantes and Algiers: A Captive’s Tale (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt UP, 2002; revised paperback ed., 2005)
Cervantes en Argel: historia de un cautivo, Madrid: Gredos, 2005. (The author’s own revised and expanded translation of Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive’s Tale, 2002. The Spanish version has been enriched with new archival data and bibliography).
Articles:
“Grande amigo mío”: Cervantes y los renegados.” U.S.A. Cervantes. 39 cervantistas en Estados Unidos. Ed. Georgina Dopico Black and Francisco Layna Ranz. Madrid: Ediciones Polifemo (forthcoming 2008).
“‘En las manos de Dios y en las del renegado’: Frontiers and frontier-characters in Cervantes’s Mediterranean.” Cervantes and his Racial Other. Special Issue of Annals of Scholarship. Ed. Baltasar Fra-Molinero (forthcoming 2008).
“Un ‘tercer espacio’: Moros, moriscos y renegados en el Quijote de 1605”. Don Quijote en las aulas. Ed. Amalia Iriarte Núñez. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes–Siglo del Hombre Editores, 2006. 123-152.
“En las fronteras de la ficción: La historia del cautivo (Quijote I, 37-42).”Special Issue Leyendo el Quijote: Texto e interpretación. Ed. Ignacio Arellano. Príncipe de Viana 65, 236 ( 2005): 619-31.
“The Translator Translated: Inca Garcilaso and the English Imperial Expansion,” in Travel and Translation in the Early Modern Period, ed. Carmine G. Di Biase (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006) 203-225.
“‘Desde la otra orilla’: las marcas de Argel en Don Quijote,” Spec. issue Cervantismos Americanos. Ed. Enrique García Santo Tomás. Revista Ínsula 697-698 (2005): 15-16.
“Cuatrocientos años con Don Quijote: 1605-2005", Colombia: la alegría de pensar. Ed. Yolanda González Pacciotti and Luz Helena Rodríguez Núñez (Bogotá: Universidad Autónoma-Revista Número, 2004) 97-114.
“La prisión de Argel en Don Quijote,” In “Don Quijote en la complejidad moderna–en la proximidad de los 400 años,” Special issue of Revista ALEPH 129/130, Manizales, Colombia, 2004.
“Staging Captivity: Cervantes's Barbary Plays,” Approaches to Teaching the Spanish Comedia. Ed. Margaret Rich Greer and Laura Bass (New York: MLA, 2006) 166-173.
“Los avatares de un nombre: Saavedra y Cervantes,” Revista de Literatura 65, 130 (Madrid, 2003): 351-374.
“Trauma and Testimony in El trato de Argel.” Cervantes para el Siglo XXI / Cervantes for the 21st Century, Commemorative Collection in Honor of Professor Edward Dudley. Ed. Francisco LaRubia-Prado. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2001. 79-105.
“Cervantes's Veiled Woman.” Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote. Trans. Burton Raffel. Ed. Diana de Armas Wilson. A New Norton Critical Edition. New York: Norton, 1998. 821-30.
“El cautiverio: meollo de la obra cervantina.” El Quijote en Colombia ayer y siempre. Special issue of Senderos 9.33 (1998): 1322-35.
“Los destinos del Inca Garcilaso.” Raros y curiosos. Special issue of Senderos 8 .31-32 (1997): 1087-91.
“Poetic Language and the Dissolution of the Subject in La gitanilla and El licenciado Vidriera.” Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry 2. 2 (1996): 85-104.
“Fundaciones míticas: el cuerpo del deseo en Waman Puma.” Mujer y cultura en la Hispanoamérica colonial. Biblioteca de América Series. Ed. Mabel Moraña. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. 67-87.
“Writing the Body of Mama Waku: Primal Scenes in Waman Puma.” Spec. issue La comunicación transatlántica. Ed. Carlos Rincón. Dispositio 18.44 (1994): 125-52.
“Berganza and the ‘Abject': The Desecration of the Mother.” Quixotic Desire: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Cervantes. Ed. Ruth El Saffar and Diana de Armas Wilson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. 292-314.
“Coaches, Litters, and Chariots of War: Montaigne and Atahualpa.” Spec. issue Dissenting Views of 1992. Ed. Diana de Armas Wilson. Journal of Hispanic Philology 16.2 (1992): 155-83.
“Lecciones del Nuevo Mundo: la estética de la palabra en el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.” Literatura hispanoamericana de la colonia. Ed. Betty Osorio de Negret. Spec. issue of Texto y Contexto 17 (1991): 125-50.
“La Conquista de la palabra: el mito de los Ayar en Garcilaso Inca de la Vega,” Thesaurus: Boletín del Instituto Caro y Cuervo 47. 2 (Mayo-Agosto 1992): 293-312.
“Zoraida's Veil: The ‘Other' Scene of The Captive's Tale.” Revista de estudios hispánicos 23.1 (1989): 65-98.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Early modern Hispanic literatures (both Spain and the Americas)
Mediterranean Studies
Frontier Studies
New Historicism
Cultural Studies
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature and Culture
Trauma Studies
RECENT COURSES
Tales of Love and Lust
Early Hispanic Modernities
The Mediterranean in the Times of Cervantes
Don Quixote
Sin, Crime, and Scandal in Early Modern Hispanic Fictions
Spanish Golden Age Drama: Text, Theory, and Performance
The Cross and the Crescent: Early Modern Spanish Contacts with Islam
Maladies of the Soul: Don Quijote and the Modern Novel
Trauma and Captivity: Cervantes to García Márquez
Literatures of the Conquest
Spanish Short Fiction of the Golden Age
Fictions of the Picaresque in Spain and America
Renaissance Hispanisms
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