Teresa Clifton

Special Collections & Engagement Librarian- Latin American Library

People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty

Research

Colonial Latin American Literature & Visual Culture, Pastoral Literature, Ecocriticism & Environmental Humanities, Material History of Literature

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Brown University, Hispanic Studies, 2019
  • M.A., Brown University, Hispanic Studies, 2014
  • B.A., Tulane University, English and Spanish, minor in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2012
  • B.S., Tulane University, Linguistics, 2012

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Assistant Professor of Spanish, Berea College, 2022-2024
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, 2020-2022
  • Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, 2018-2020
  • Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, 2018-2022

Distinctions

  • J.M. Stuart Fellowship, Brown University, 2017–2018

Languages

  • Spanish

Selected Publications

  • Forthcoming. “Mexico City, 1620: Pastoral Fiction and Cultural Adaptation in Spain and Spanish America.” Textuality and Diversity: A Literary History of Europe and its Global Connections, 1545–1661, edited by Warren Boutcher, Oxford UP, 2027
  • 2022. “‘Escribieron en mi memoria’: Ekphrasis in the Pastoral Fiction of New Spain.” Ekphrastic Image-making in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, edited by Art di Furia and Walter Melion, Brill, 2022, pp. 789-807.
  • 2017. “Arcadia en el Nuevo Mundo: La literatura pastoril de la Nueva España.” Topografías literarias: El espacio en la literatura hispánica de la Edad Media al siglo XXI, edited by Alba Agraz Ortiz & Sara Sánchez-Hernández, Biblioteca Nueva, 2017, pp. 103