Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
Lyons Hall 311D
Telephone: 617-552-6339
Email: sarah.beckjord@bc.edu
Latin American Literature and Culture, with an emphasis on the colonial period and 19th century; Historiography; Narrative theory
.ÌýUniversity Park: Penn State University Press, 2007.
œLove: Spanish America.�ÌýLexikon of the Hispanic Baroque. Ed. Kenneth Mills and Evonne Levy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. 216-218.
œEspectáculos de la imaginación: La interpretación histórica en los Comentarios reales.� 400 años de los Comentarios reales. Ed. Song No and Elena Romiti. Montevideo: Universidad de la República (Uruguay), Purdue University, and Aitana Editores, 2010, pp. 15-33.
œGonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y la incipiente conciencia criolla en la historiografÃa de Indias.�ÌýPoéticas de lo criollo: Inestabilidad semántica y heterogeneidad identitaria. La transformación del concepto ˜criollo™ en las letras hispaonamericanas (siglos XVI-XIX), ed.ÌýDavid Solodkow and Juan Vitulli. Buenos Aires: Editorial Corregidor, 2009, pp. 62-79.
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œMemory and Poetry in the Comentarios reales (1609).� Annual Convention of the Renaissance Society of America, Montreal. March 28, 2014.
"Love in the Comentarios reales," Boston College, Radical Readings Workshop. Institute for the Liberal Arts, Chestnut Hill, MA. May 3, 2013.
œShipwreck and Spectacle in theÌýComentarios reales.�ÌýAnnual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association. Brown University, Providence, RI. April 1, 2012.
œAnecdotes of Love in theÌýComentarios Reales.� Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Montreal. March 23, 2012.
œTheaters of the Imagination in Inca Garcilaso de la VegaÌýComentarios Reales.� Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Montreal. March 25, 2011.
œPerformances of the Imagination in theÌýComentarios RealesÌýby Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.� MLA Annual Conference, Los Angeles. January 8, 2011.
œMemory and the Imagination in theÌýComentarios reales.�ÌýFrom Iberian Kingdoms to New World Empires: Spain, Portugal, and the New World, 1250-1700. A Conference at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Notre Dame University, South Bend. September 17-18, 2010.
œLiteracy and the Imagination in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Comentarios Reales.� Atlantic World Literacies Conference. University of North Carolina, Greensboro, October 7-9, 2010.
œDon Quixote and the Discourses of History.� NEMLA conference, Boston, February 28, 2009.