Dale Shuger

Professor- Spanish & Portuguese

School of Liberal Arts
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Dale Shuger

Courses

Pre-20th Century Readings in Spanish; The Spanish Inquisition; Literature of the Golden Age; Early Modern Spanish Mysticism; Spanish Cultural Studies (Early Modern Popular Culture); Spanish Golden Age Prose: La escritura del yo

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 1  

Research

Early modern Spanish literature, heterodox religions and popular culture in Spain and colonial Latin America

Degrees

  • Ph.D., New York University, Spanish & Portuguese, 2008
  • B.A., Harvard University, Romance Languages, 2001

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Professor, Tulane University, 2023-
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2018-2023
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2013-
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2012-2013
  • Assistant Professor, Columbia University, 2008-2012

Distinctions

  • COR International Travel Fund Grants, 2017, 2023, 2024
  • Lurcy Award for Summer Research, 2015, 2020
  • Young Mellon Scholar, 2015-2020
  • Stone Center Faculty Travel Grant, 2015
  • MacDonald Junior Faculty Summer Grant, 2009
  • MacCracken Fellowship, 2001-2006

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Spain

Related Experience

  • School of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee Member, 2016-
  • Director, Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2014-2017
  • Undergraduate Advisor for Spanish Majors, Tulane University, 2013-

Selected Publications

  • Forthcoming. "Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ambiguity of Female Beauty in María de Zayas.” Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades/Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies."
  • Forthcoming. "Microhistory" in in Mellyn, Elizabeth and Christina Ramos, eds. A Cultural History of Madness in the Renaissance (1400-1600). Vol. 3. Bloomsbury Cultural History of Madness. London, UK.
  • 2022. God Made Word: An Archeology of Mystic Discourse in Early Modern Spain. University of Toronto Press
  • 2021. “Putting the Auto in the Auto de Fe.” Bulletin of Hispanic studies 98.3: 231–247.
  • 2018. “Cross Words: Cervantes and the Sign of the Cross.” Modern philology 115.3 (2018): 307–326.
  • 2018. “Pulling Strings: Puppets and Free Will on the Spanish Stage.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 70.2: 13–31.
  • 2017. “Incoherent Subjects, Incomplete Lives: The Limits of Spiritual Autobiography in Spain.” Religions (Basel, Switzerland ) 8.12.
  • 2016. “Tres Tristes Teresas.” MLN 131(2): 378-397.
  • 2015.“Interrogating the Ineffable: The Language of Mysticism and the Language of Law”, Renaissance Quarterly 68(3): 932-956.