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Kathleen Ann Myers | Faculty
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Adjunct Professor, History
Office: Ballantine Hall 859
TEL: 855-5027
Email: myersk
Education
Ph.D. Brown University 1986, Hispanic Studies
B.A. Ripon College 1980, History and Spanish
Selected Publications
Books on Colonial Latin American Women Writers and Sixteenth-Century Chronicles
- Word from New Spain: the Spiritual Autobiography of María de San José (1656-1719). TRAC, Liverpool University Press, 1993, 234 pp. (a critical edition of a seventeenth-century manuscript).
- "A Wild Country out in the Garden:" The Spiritual Journals of a Colonial Mexican Nun, in collaboration with Amanda Powell. Indiana University Press, 1999. 480 pp. (a study and translation of a New World mystic).
- Neither Saints nor Sinners: Writing the Lives of Spanish American Women, Oxford University Press, 2003, 287pp. (examines the biographies and autobiographical writings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women in Latin America, focusing on the dynamic exchange between individual authors and the socio-religious codes that dictated the construction of ideal feminine self-representation).
- Fernández de Ovíedo's Chronicle of America: New History for a New World (Texas UP, 2007, 321pp.).
Samples/selected articles on colonial Latin American discourse:
- "Life Writings and Colonial Latin American Women," New Oxford Literary History of Latin America, vol. I. Eds. Mario J. Valdés et al (Oxford UP, 2004).
- "Catholic Devotional and Spiritual Women in the New World," in Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. Eds. Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosmary Radford Ruether. (Indiana University Press, 2005).
- "Crossing Boundaries: Defining the Field of Female Religious Writing in Colonial Latin America," for Colonial Latin America Research Review.
- "A Transatlantic Perspective: the Influence of Teresa's model on New World Women", Approaching to Teaching Teresa of Avila (Modern Languages Association, 2008)
Funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Philosophical Society, Indiana University, Spain's Ministry for Education and Science (at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Department of Antrhopology and History of America), the Ministry for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain and the United States, and the Huntington Library.
Awards
- Distinguished Scholar Award, Office of Women's Affairs, Indiana University, 2005
- Outstanding Mentor Award, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, 2008
Teaching
- Rewriting the Conquest of Mexico: Theories and Practices of Reconquista
- Conquest and Colonization: The Voices of Hegemony and Resistance
- Sor Juana and her Cultural Milieu
Current Research Projects
- In the Shadow of Cortés: From Veracruz to Mexico City
- Moveable Feast of the Arts Exhibit, Sept. 2009-2010.
