Essays

Articles and Book Chapters

• “The Theatre of the Spanish Golden Age.” The Oxford Handbook of Spanish Golden Age Literature. Ed. J. A. Garrido Ardila. Oxford: Oxford UP.  Forthcoming.

• “La curiosidad tremulante: Sex and Desire in El curioso impertinente and Carne trémula. Arts [Special issue on “Curiosity and Modernity in Early Modern Iberia”]. Ed. Marina Brownlee. Forthcoming.

• “American Sueño.” The Comedia Between Worlds/La comedia entre mundos. Ed. Esther Fernández, Erin Cowling, Glenda Nieto-Cuebas, and Susan Paun de García. Forthcoming. 

  

• “Cervantes and the Simple Stage.” Drawing the Curtain: Cervantes’s Theatrical Revelations. Ed. Esther Fernández and Adrienne Martín. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2022. 17-41.

• “Celebrating Sancho: Heroes, Fools, and Second Bananas on the Silver Screen.” “La vida como obra de arte”: Essays in Memory of John Jay Allen. Ed. Moisés Castillo. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2021. 144-65. 

• “Harry Potter and the Buried Self: Blood Purity, Cryptonomy, and the Ethics of Concealment in J.K. Rowling’s Potterverse.” Reconsidering Early Modern Spanish Literature Through Mass and Popular Culture: Contemporizing the Classics for the Classroom. Ed. Bonnie Gasior and Mindy Badía. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2021. 33-47.  

• “Cervantine Criticism since 2000 and into the Future.” The Oxford Handbook of Cervantes. Ed. Aaron Kahn. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2021. 648-79. 

• “Becoming Quixote: Sancho and the Spider-Verse.” [Special Cluster on Science Fiction. Ed. Brad Nelson.] Cervantes 40.2 (2020): 191-220.

• “Forward.” Living the Comedia: Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen. Ed. Esther Fernández and J. Yuri Porras. New Orleans: UP of the South, 2020. i-iv. 

• “Don Quixote and the Rise of Cyberorality.” Millennial Cervantes: New Currents in Cervantes Studies. Ed. Bruce R. Burningham. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. 225-46.

• “Chapter 51: Cervantes: Don Quixote.” A Companion to World Literature: 1451-1770. Vol. 3. Ed. Ken Seigneurie and Frieda Ekotto.  A Companion to World Literature. 5 vols. Ed Ken Seigneurie et al. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2020. 1903-14.

• “Jongleuresque Origins.” Faraway Settings: Spanish and Chinese Theaters of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Ed. Juan Pablo Gil-Oslé and Frederick A. de Armas. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2019. 21-36.
   
• “Dogville, Jazz Club Polonia, and the Ethics of Adaptation.” Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz. Ed. Susan Paun de García and Donald Larson. New York: Peter Lang, 2017. 243-53.
   
• “La política del Quijote en la edad de los datos alternativos.”  Actas del II Congreso Internacional América-Europa, Europa-América: Los valores del Quijote.  Ed Vincent Giménez Chornet, Antonio Colmer Viadel, and Francisco Parra  Luna. Valencia: Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017.  5-17.
   
• “Crouching Squire, Hidden Madman: Ah Gan’s Don Quixote and Postmodern China.” Don Quixote:  The Re-accentuation of the World’s Greatest Literary Hero. Ed. Howard Mancing and Slav Gratchev. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP. 181-92.
   
• “Chapter 7: Communities of Production.” A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages. Vol. 2. Ed. Jody Enders. A Cultural History of Theater.  Ed. Christopher B. Balme and Tracy C. Davis. 6 vols. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. 2: 145-61.
   
• “Misprisioner’s Dilemma: Game Theory and Sonic Seepage in Lope de Vega's Mujeres y criados.” Making Sense of the Senses in Comedia Studies. Ed. Bonnie Gasior and Yolanda Gamboa. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2017. 95-107.
   
• “Unamuno Rides Again: Cantinflas, Don Quixote, and the Tragic Sense of Life.” Re-Imagining Don Quixote (Film, Image and Mind). Ed. Antonio Cortijo Ocaña and Eloi Grasset. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2017. 123-40.
   
• “The Unbearable Simulacrum of Being: Staging Ontology in Calderón de la Barca’s El gran teatro del mundo and Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche New York.” Self, Other, and Context in Early Modern Spain: Studies in Honor of Howard Mancing. Ed. Isabel Portillo Jáen, Carolyn Nadeau, and Julien Simon. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2017. 187-99.
   
• “Eco-Performativity in Persiles y Sigismunda.” “Si ya por atrevido no sale con las manos en la cabeza”: El legado poético del “Persiles” cuatrocientos años después. Ed. Mercedes Alcalá Galán, Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, and Francisco Layna Ranz. eHumanista/Cervantes 5 (2016): 155-72.
   
• “Prologue: Idleness and the Cervantine Ideal.”  A Novel Without Boundaries: Sensing Don Quixote 400 Years Later.  Ed. Carmen García de la Rasilla and Jorge Abril Sánchez. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2016. 9-15.

• “Cognitive Theatricality: Jongleuresque Imagination on the Early Spanish Stage.” Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature. Ed. Julien Simon and Isabel Jaén. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. 93-110.
   
• “Screening Quixote: Cervantes and Media Culture.” Baroque Projections: Images and Texts in Dialogue with the Early Modern Hispanic World. Ed. Michael Horswell and Frédéric Conrod. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2016. 167-90.
   
• “In Praise of Lupe.” Perspectives  on Early Modern Women in Iberia and the Americas: Studies in Law,  Society, Art and Literature in Honor of Anne J. Cruz. Ed. Adrienne Martín and María Cristina Quintero. New York: Escribana, 2015. 203-19.
   
• “Corpus Lorqui: Transformation and Transubstantiation in Los Barracos de Federico’s El caballero de Olmedo.” Remaking the Comedia: Spanish Classical Theater in Adaptation. Ed. Harley Erdman and Susan Paun de García. London: Támesis, 2015. 123-31.
   
• “Don Quixote in the American Imaginary.” MLA Approaches to Teaching Don Quixote. Ed. James A. Parr and Lisa Vollendorf. New York: Modern Language Association, 2015. 153-58.
   
• “The Secret Life of Patiño’s Pen.” Cervantes, política y estética nacionalista, 1920-1975. Ed. Francisco Layna Ranz and Antonio Cortijo Ocaña. eHumanista/Cervantes 3 (2014): 620-36.
   
• “Bad Moon Rising: Lycanthropy and Liminality in Cervantes’s ‘Dogs’ Colloquy.’” Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares. Ed. Moisés Castillo. Romance Quarterly [Special Issue] 61.2 (2014): 138-50.
   
• “An Apology for the Actorly: Maravall, Sor Juana, and the Economics of Jongleuresque Performance.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 65.1 (2013): 131-54.
   
• “Writing in the Margins: Cervantes’ Challenge to Massenet.” Seattle Opera Magazine 28.3 (Winter 2010-2011): 18-21.

• “David Lynch and the Dulcineated World.” Cervantes 30.2 (2010): 33-56.

• “On the Bricks: The Terra Nova Consort, Greenshows, and the Spanish Jongleuresque.” Comedia Performance 7.1 (2010): 103-42.

• “The Moor’s Last Sigh: National Loss and Imperial Triumph in Lope de Vega’s The Last Goth.” LATCH 3 (2010): 34-63.

• “Os Manchíadas.” USA Cervantes: 39 cervantistas de Estados Unidos. Ed. Georgina Dopico Black and Francisco Layna Ranz. Madrid: Polifemo, 2009. 247-72.

• “De Laudatione Cervantina.” Early Modern Spanish Studies in Honor of Carroll B. Johnson. Ed. Sherry Velasco. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2008. 41-50.

• “Suicide and the Ethics of Refusal.” Critical Reflections: Essays on Golden Age Spanish Literature in Honor of James A. Parr. Ed. Barbara Simerka and Amy R. Williamsen. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2006. 44-54. 

• “Placing the Comedia in Performative Context.” Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama.  Ed. Laura Bass and Margaret R. Greer. MLA Approaches to Teaching World  Literature Series. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006. 107-114.

• “Insidious Echoes: Ballad Resonance and Bodily Threats in Peribáñez.” Comedia Performance 3.1 (2006): 60-90.

• “Cervantine Reflections on The Matrix.” Don Quijote Across Four Centuries: 1605-2005. Ed. Carroll B. Johnson. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2006. 49-59.

• “Beleaguered Hegemony and Triangular Desire in Lope de Vega’s Las famosas asturianas and John Ford’s Stagecoach.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 56.1 (2004): 115-42.

• “Salman Rushdie, autor del Cautivo.”  Estas primicias del ingenio: jóvenes cervantistas en Chicago. Ed. Francisco Caudet and Kerry Wilks. Madrid: Castalia, 2003. 35-54.

• “Jongleuresque Dialogue, Radical Theatricality, and Maese Pedro’s Puppet Show.” Cervantes 23.1 (2003): 165-200.

• “Salman Rushdie, Author of the Captive’s Tale.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 38.1 (2003): 113-33.

• “Walt Disney’s Toy Story as Postmodern Don Quixote.” Cervantes 20.1 (2000): 157-72.

• “Barbarians at the Gates: The Invasive Discourse of Medieval Performance in Lope’s Arte nuevo.” Theatre Journal 50 (1998): 289-302.