Garces, Maria Antonia

Associate Professor of Hispani

research

research and scholarship focus

  • 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

primary investigator of

international geographic focus

affiliations

faculty appointment in

member of graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

background

educational background

  • Ph.D. in Spanish and Renaissance Studies from the Johns Hopkins University
  • M.A. in English from Georgetown University

awards and distinctions

  • 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)

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • Articles:

    • "Desde una atalaya priviegiada: El mundo morisco-otomano en el Quijote." Don Quijote en las aulas. Ed. María Luisa Ortega. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes (forthcoming, 2006).
    • "'En las manos de Dios y en las del renegado': Fronteras y personajes fronterizos en el Mediterráneo de Cervantes". Cervantes and the Racial Other. Special Issue of Annals of Scholarship. Ed. Baltasar Fra-Molinero (forthcoming 2006).
    • “En las fronteras de la ficción: La historia del cautivo (Quijote I, 37-42),” Leyendo el Quijote: Texto e interpetación, ed. Ignacio Arellano (Madrid: Príncipe de Viana, forthcoming 2006).
    • “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
    • “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. 697-698 (2005): 15-16.
    • “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.
    • “Saavedra: Apellido, clamor y experiencia limítrofe en Cervantes,” Literatura y pensamiento en España. Estudios en honor del Professor Ciriaco Morón Arroyo. Ed. Francisco LaRubia-Prado, Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2002.
    • “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.

  • Book:

    • Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.
    • 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).