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Steven Wagschal | Faculty

Department Chair

Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Affiliated Faculty, Renaissance Studies Program

Office: Ballantine Hall 862 / 802
TEL: 855-1623 / 855-8498
Email: swagscha

Education

Ph.D., 1999, Columbia University
M.A., 1992, Columbia Universtiy
B.A., 1991, Concordia University

Specializations

• Early Modern/Golden Age prose, poetry and theater
• Cognitive and Philosophical Approaches to Literature
• Literature and the Emotions
• Mythology in Literature
• Art and Literature

Selected Publications

Books

• The Literature of Jealousy in the Age of Cervantes. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2006 (220pp).
• Editor, with Introduction and Notes. Peribáñez y el Comendador de Ocaña. By Lope de Vega. Cervantes & Company No. 14. Newark (DE): Cuesta European Masterpieces, 2004 (154pp).

Articles

•  “Two Faces of the Common: The Pious and the Picaresque.” In New Approaches to Velázquez, Ed. by Tanya Tiffany and Giles Knox. Turhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers (in press).
• “Don Quixote, the Skeptical Reader and the Nature of Reality.” In Cervantes in Perspective. Ed. by Julia Domínguez. Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert (in press).
• Taylor, Gary and Steven Wagschal. “Cervantes or Shelton? The Sources of Cardenio and Double Falsehood.” In The Creation and Re-creation of Cardenio: Performing Shakespeare, Transforming Cervantes. Ed. by Terri A. Bourus and Gary Taylor. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (in press).
• “The Smellscape of Don Quixote: A Cognitive Approach.” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 32.1 (2012) 125-162.
• “Ovid Transformed: Cristóbal de Castillejo as Conflicted Cosmopolitan,” Ovid in the Age of Cervantes, ed. Frederick A. de Armas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010 (175-90).
• “Medicine, Morality, Madness: Competing Models of Insanity in Calderón’s El mayor monstruo del mundo.” Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos 32:2 (2008) 227-45.
• "Digging up the Past: The Archeology of Emotion in Cervantes's 'Romance de los celos.'" Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, 27:2 (2007) 213-28.
• "El Polifemo, la ékfrasis y el arte europeo, " Colección de estudios gongorinos, III, ed. Joaquín Roses. Córdoba: Exca. Diputación de Córdoba, 2005 (75-88).
• “Garcilaso Goes to the Met: Fine Arts and the Hypertext Sonnet.” Calíope11:2 (2005) 139-50.
• "From Parmigianino to Pereda: Góngora on Beautiful Women and Vanitas," Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes, ed. Frederick A. de Armas. Lewisburg (PA): Bucknell UP, 2005 (102-23).
• "Writing on the Fractured 'I': Góngora's Iconographic Evocations of Vulcan, Venus and Mars," Writing for the Eyes in the Spanish Golden Age, ed. Frederick A. de Armas. Lewisburg (PA): Bucknell UP, 2004 (130-50).
• "A Woman Not Fit to Rule: The Gendering of Jealousy in Lope de Vega's Arminda celosa," Bulletin of the Comediantes 55:2 (2003) 81-94.
• "'Mas no cabrás allá': Góngora's Early Modern Representation of the Modern Sublime," Hispanic Review 70.2 (2002): 169-189.

Honors and Awards

• Faculty Exchange Program at the University of Seville, Spain (Summer 2011).
• College Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI) research fellowship (Teaching release, Fall 2011).
• Institute for Advanced Study, Remak New Knowledge Center Seminar Participant (2010-11)
• West European Studies National Resource Center, Faculty Research Grant (Summer 2009).
• Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University (2006-07).
• Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University (Summer 2005).
• West European Studies National Resource Center, Faculty Research Grant (Summer 2004).
• President's Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Grant, Indiana University (2003).
• NEH Summer Seminar on Cervantes and Italian Renaissance Art, University of Chicago (Summer 2003).

Teaching

• SPAN 708: Graduate Seminar: Cervantes' Brain: Intention, Interpretation and Don Quixote.
• SPAN 708: Graduate Seminar Madness in Early Modern Spain
• SPAN 695/495: Plastic Verses: Ekphrasis and Art in Early Modern Spain
• SPAN 628: Reading and the Rise of Leisure in Early Modernity
• SPAN 628: Cervantes and the Literature of Madness
• SPAN 528: Spanish Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
• SPAN 512: Theory and Criticism
• SPAN 450: Don Quixote
• SPAN 417: Hispanic Poetry
• SPAN 407: Early Spanish Literature (Medieval and Early Modern)
• SPAN 334: Panoramas of Hispanic Literature I
• COLL S103: Freshman Honors Seminar on Don Quixote  in Translation
• COLL S103: Freshman Seminar Madness

Current Research Projects

• Embodiment Through Smell and Taste: A Cognitive Approach to the Lesser Senses in Cervantes
  
• Góngora and the Visual Arts
  
• Medicine, Morality and Madness: Insanity and Literature in Early Modern Spain