Associate Professor of Spanish (2006)

Education

• B.A., Boston University
• M.A., Boston University
• Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Contact

Email: cmesa@moravian.edu
Phone: 610-861-1397
Office: Comenius Hall, Room 406

Areas of Research and/or Expertise

• Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature
• Emblem literature
• Colonial Spanish-American Literature

Biography

Professor Mesa came to Moravian College from UCLA in 2006. Her major research interest is Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Spanish literature, especially narrative fiction and its connection to emblem studies. Her work encompasses a period of fifty years marked by the publication of the most influential books of fiction from the Spanish Golden Age, including Cervantes Don Quijote in 1605.

Articles

• “La cartografía barroca de Octavio Paz en ‘Himno entre ruinas’: Profanación y homenaje del Polifemo”. Octavio Paz, Modernity, and World Civilizations: A Plurality of Pasts and Futures. Roberto Cantú (editor). United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Forthcoming).
• “Emblematic Imagery, Free Will and Grace in Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache.” Emblematica 18 (2010): 207-238.
• “Persuasión y desencanto en Muriendo por la dulce patria mía de Roberto Castillo Sandoval.” Mester XXIX (2000): 61-71.

Work in Progress

• Emblems as Mnemonics in Lope de Vega’s The Pilgrim or Stranger in his Own Country (1604)