Updated Jan 2015 - Cal Poly Pomona

MARTA ALBALÁ PELEGRÍN
EMAIL: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Sept. 2013
Ph. D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and
Languages, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York.
Dissertation: From the Iberian to the Italian Peninsula:
Conceptualization and Theatrical Praxis of the Early Spanish
Comedies. Supervised by Ottavio Di Camillo (chair), Lía Schwartz and
William Childers.
Sept. 2000 – Febr. 2003
Licenciatura en Comunicación Audiovisual (five-year degree). University of
Salamanca, Spain. Major in Film Studies, Media and Communication. (One
year study abroad at Université Paris VII, Fall 2001-Spring 2002)
Sept. 1996 – Dec. 2000
Licenciatura en Filología Hispánica (five-year degree). University of
Zaragoza, Spain. Major in Iberian and Latin-American Literature and
Linguistics.
CURRENT AFILIATIONS
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Assistant Professor
UCLA Center for 17th-18th Century Studies,
William Clarks Memorial Library
Affiliated Faculty
Sept. 2014-Present
Nov. 2014-Present
RESEARCH INTEREST
Mediterranean Studies. Medieval and Early Modern Spanish, French, Italian and English Drama.
Conceptual History. History of the Book. Print and Visual Culture.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Book Length Manuscript:
Entertaining the Pope: International Diplomacy and Performance in Early Modern Rome (1470- 1530)
Articles:
Among Tories and Coffeehouses: Reading "Celestina" in England (1707)
The Rhetoric of Gestures in La Celestina
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RESEARCH GROUPS AND SEMINARS
October 2014- Present.
The Comedia in Translation and Performance Working group, Organized by
Barbara Fuchs, The UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
November 2014-Present
California Medieval History Seminar, Center for Medieval & Renaissance
Studies, UCLA.
GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS
2015
RSCA. Presidents Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity, Cal Poly
Pomona, Project title: “The Rhetoric of Gestures in La Celestina”. $ 5000.
February 2015
Newberry Library, Weekend Workshop in Spanish Paleography directed by
Professor Carla Rahn Phillips, February 27-28. Competition for admission to
this program was defined as “fierce” by Karen Christianson, PhD, Associate
Director of the Newberry Library.
2012
Folger Shakespeare Library. Grant-in-aid to participate at the Folger Institute
seminar "Sexuality, Theory, History, Drama", Washington DC, 20
September-6 December 2012. $2000
2012
University of Toronto. Fellowship to participate in 'Early Modern
Migrations: Exiles, Expulsion, & Religious Refugees 1400–1700', Victoria
College, University of Toronto. $1000.
2010 – 2011
The Graduate Center, CUNY. Doctoral Students’ Council Dissertation
Award for the Humanities. Granted to support dissertation research. $5000
2010
Mc Gill University. Fellowship to participate in Making Publics: Visual,
Scientific, and Literary Formations. Green College, University of British
Columbia. Vancouver. $1000
2010
Mc Gill University and Concordia University. Fellowship to participate in
Making Publics, Communicating Culture in Early Modern Europe, May
24th- 23rd June, Concordia University. A research Seminar for DissertationStage and Recent PhDs and Junior Faculty, of the five year nterdisciplinary
research project Making Publics: Media, Markets, and Association in Early
Modern Europe 1500-1700. Mc Gill University. $2500
2003–2009
The Graduate Center, CUNY. University Fellowship & Tuition
2005
University of Minnesota, Program for Cultural Cooperation between
Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities. Project title:
"Towards a facsimile edition of La Comedia de Calisto y Melibea,
Sevilla, Stanislao Polono, 1501". $2000
2004 – 2006
2003 – 2004
The Graduate Center, CUNY. Graduate Teaching Fellowship.
The Graduate Center, CUNY. International Student Tuition Award.
2000$
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PUBLICATIONS
June 2014
"Converso Migration and Social Stratification: Textual representations
of the marrano from Iberia to Rome (1480-1550)", in Exile and the
Formation of Religious Identities in the Early Modern World,
coord. Gary Waite and Jesse Spohnholz, (London: Pickering and Chatto,
2014).
October 2012
(The Actor on the Page: on Woodcuts and Comic Scenes at the Beginning of
the Sixteenth century). "El actor en la página: de grabados y escenarios
"cómicos" a principios del XVI", en Marina Garone Gravier, Isabel Galina, y
Laurette Godinas, L. (Eds), Memorias del Congreso Internacional Las
Edades del Libro, IIB-UNAM, 2012 (ISBN: 978-607-02-3509-2).
Disponible
en:
http://www.edadesdellibro.unam.mx/edl2012/files/EdadesDelLibro.epub
December 2013
(Lope de Vega's New Art of Making Comedies (1609) in Light of
Contemporary Italian Dramatic Theory: Poliziano, Robortello, Guarini, and
the Abbot of Rute). "El Arte nuevo de Lope de Vega a la luz de la teoría
dramática italiana contemporánea: Poliziano, Robortello, Guarini y el Abad
de Rute", in Lope de Vega y la renovación literaria, e-Humanista:
http://www.ehumanista.ucsb.edu/volumes/volume_24/index.shtml
June 2009
"Un códice misceláneo: la Comedia de Calisto y Melibea, Sevilla 1501, Rès
Yg. 63, BNF". Bulletin of Spanish Studies 86.4 (June 2009): 435-458.
REVIEWS
Forthcoming Spring 2015
Encarnación Sánchez García (ed.). Lingua Spagnola e cultura Ispanica
a Napoli fra rinascimento e barocco: Testimonianze a stampa, Napoli:
T. Pironti, 2013. Renaissance Quarterly.
March 2011
Pedro de Portugal. Sátira de infelice e felice vida. Ed. Guillermo Serés.
Alcalá de Henares: Centro de Estudios Cervantinos. Bulletin of Spanish
Studies 88.2 (March 2011): 278-279.
TRANSLATIONS
Fall 2009
“The Printed Tradition of La Celestina: a Reassessment”
by Ottavio Di Camillo. In Ottavio Di Camillo. Medievalia y
humanística. Estudios sobre literatura española. (Salamanca:
Seminario de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, SEMYR, 2009).
161-274.
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Spring 2005
“Historical Scholarship” by Annabel Patterson. In Teorías de la historia
literaria. Ed. Luis Beltrán. (Madrid: Arco Libros. 2005). 67-90.
CREATIVE WRITING
June 2006
Short story contributed to the anthology of new writers of Aragon,
El viento dormido. Nuevos prosistas en Aragón. Zaragoza: Eclipsados,
2006.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Forthcoming July 2015
"Gestures as a Transnational Language through Engravings and
Woodcuts: Terence and Celestina", International Society for the History
of Rhetoric (ISHR), Tübingen, 28th-31th July, 2015.
Forthcoming March 2015
"Moving audiences, popes and kings: Baltasar del Río (ca. 1480-1540)
and the rebirth of public oratory", RSA, Berlin, 26th- 28th March, 2015.
Forthcoming March 2015
Baedekers de la Roma secreta: Francisco Delicado y Baltasar del Río
(1504-1530), XX Congreso de la Asociación alemana de hispanistas,
18th -22nd March, 2015.
Forthcoming March 2015
"Spanish Literary Patronage at the Curia: the role of the Cardinal of
Santa Croce, Bernardino López de Carvajal (1456-1523) and the
Cardinal Arborensis, Jaume Serra (1427 ca. -1517)", Renaissance
Cardinals: Diplomats and Patrons in the Early-Modern World, Saint
Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, 13th-14th March, 2015.
Forthcoming February 2015
""Parte de lo que en su casa pasa" Baltasar del Río, Torres Naharro, and
Pietro Aretino and the genesis of the picaresque in Early Modern
Rome", ACMRS, 5th-7th February, Scottsdale, Arizona.
October 19th, 2014
"When in Rome ... Foreign Diplomacy and Theater in Early Sixteenth
Century: Machiavelli, Torres Naharro, and Hernan Lopez de Yanguas",
SCSC, 16th-19th October, New Orleans.
June 27th, 2014
"Exiled within the Curia: Spanish Prelates of Converso Origins in
Rome. Pedro de Aranda and Baltasar del Río (1490-1550), ASPHS,
26th-29th June, Modena.
March 27th, 2014
"Gestures and Portrayed Emotions in Celestina's Early Woodcuts",
RSA, New York, 27-29 March, 2014.
October 24th, 2013
"Bound by Spain without Iberia: Marranos' Exile and the Socio-Politics
of the Roman Ghetto (1513-1528)", in the panel Theologies of Exile in
the Sixteenth Century. The 2013 Sixteenth Century Society and
Conference.
October 11th, 2013
"And I will sing and I will entertain your guest; for the privilege", Early
Modern Rome 2, Conference sponsored by the University of California,
Rome with ACCENT and with the collaboration of the Istituto storico
italiano per il Medioevo.
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May 11th, 2013
"A History of Celestina's Translations in Reformation England" Special
Session on Celestina translations, 48th International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 9-12.
April 4th, 2013
"Crafting a Present Past: Terence, Palencia, and Hernán Nuñez's Comedy",
in "Concepts in Motion: Self-translation, Style & Genre", Princeton
Renaissance Studies Group, RSA, 4-6, San Diego.
October 17th, 2012
"El actor en la página: de grabados y escenarios "cómicos" a principios del
XVI", Congreso de las Edades del Libro, Instituto de Estudios
Bibliográficos, UNAM, 15-19 de octubre.
May 5th, 2012
"Celestina Against the Whigs", Collectors and the Ordering of Things,
Early Modern Workshop seminar organized by Princeton University,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures.
April 20th, 2012
"Shifting Identities: Renegades and "Marranos" in Early Modern
Rome", 'Early Modern Migrations: Exiles, Expulsion, & Religious
Refugees 1400–1700', Victoria College, University of Toronto.
March 23, 2012
"Woodcutting the City: Urban Spaces in Early Modern Comedies",
RSA, Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
October 5th, 2011
"Los españoles libertinos: adaptaciones del teatro del XVI en
Inglaterra", XV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Teatro
Español y Novohispano de los Siglos de Oro, AITENSO, Université
Laval, Quebec.
April 2nd, 2011
"A Freelance’s Itinerary: Reexamining Torres Naharro’s Contributions
to Early Modern Comedy", Renegotiating the Canon. Spanish
Contributions to Western Culture. Department of Roman Studies, Duke
University.
Sept. 11th, 2010
"Stepping Outside the Court: International Publics in Torres
Naharro's “Comedias a Noticia". Presented at Making
Publics: Visual, Scientific and Literary Formations. Green
College, Vancouver campus, University of British Columbia.
Vancouver.
June 4th, 2010
''Paving the Way to the 'National' theatre: some Notes and
Problems Regarding Genre and Publics''. Presented at
Communicating Culture, a summer seminar part of the five-year
interdisciplinary research project Making Publics: Media, Markets
and Association in Early Modern Europe 1500-1700. Concordia
University, Montreal.
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July 23rd, 2009
"Que también eran como ahora varias: las acepciones de comedia en el
Arte Nuevo", 400 años del 'Arte nuevo de hacer comedias' de Lope de
Vega. XIV Congreso Internacional de la AITENSO.
July 11th, 2008
“Algunas observaciones sobre el concepto de comedia en el siglo XVI”,
VIII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional del Siglo de Oro, AISO,
Santiago de Compostela.
March 25th, 2006
“A miscellaneous Codex: The Comedia de Calisto y Melibea, Stanislao
Polono, Sevilla, 1501, held in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France”
RSA, San Francisco.
PANEL ORGANIZER
Forthcoming March, 2015
Spanish Humanism: Reception of Ancient Poetics and Rhetoric between
Spain and Italy (1430-1586), RSA, 26th- 28th March, 2015.
March 27th, 2014
Adapting Celestina across Europe through textual and visual
representations, RSA, 27-29 March, 2014.
PANEL CHAIR
Forthcoming March, 2015
Humanist Thought and Letters III, RSA, 26th- 28th March, 2015.
TEACHING
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Assistant Professor
Sept. 2014-Present
Courses: Early Modern Literature, Survey of Spanish Literature, Spanish Civilization, Intermediate
Composition.
Princeton University
Lecturer
Sept. 2010 – June 2014
Courses taught: Spanish Language and Culture through Cinema, Advanced Medical Spanish, Advanced
Spanish, Intermediate Spanish (Head of Course 2012-2014), and Beginner Spanish (Head of course 20112012).
Queens College, CUNY
Adjunct Lecturer
August 2009 – June 2010
Substitute Lecturer
August 2008- June 2009.
Courses taught: Survey of Spanish Literature I: Medieval and Golden Age, Survey of Spanish Literature
II:18th-20th centuries, Culture and Civilization of Spain, Elementary Spanish, Intermediate Spanish,
Composition for heritage speakers.
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Courses taught:
Adjunct Lecturer
August 2006- July 2008.
Elementary Spanish, Intermediate Spanish, Advanced Spanish, Pre-college Spanish.
Hunter College, CUNY
Adjunct Lecturer
Sept 2003- July 2006.
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Courses taught:
Elementary Spanish, Intermediate Spanish, Advanced Spanish, Advanced Grammar and
composition, Intermediate French.
BMCC, CUNY
Courses taught:
Adjunct Lecturer
Jan 2004- June 2004.
Elementary Spanish.
PROFESIONAL DEVELOPMENT
November 20, 2014
Webinar about large classes, Faculty Center, Cal Poly Pomona.
October 27th, 2014
Creating online & hybrid courses seminar, Faculty Center, Cal Poly
Pomona.
November 16th, 2013
ACTFL-OPI Familiarization Workshop, held at Princeton University.
April 16th – 17th, 2010
Methodological Developments in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language:
a Workshop for Teachers IV. Speaking, held at Barnard College.
Dec. 16th, 2009
Language Assessment: Beyond the OPI, held at Queens College.
November 6th, 2009
Medieval Iberia Workshop, held at Hofstra University.
Oct. 23rd – 24th, 2009
Methodological Developments in Teaching Spanish as a
Second Language III, held at Barnard College.
May 15th, 2009
ACTFL-OPI Familiarization Workshop, held at Queens College.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Fall
2011
2006 – 2009
Spanish Language Table, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Languages and Cultures. Princeton University.
Manuscript reviewer of LL Journal
http://lljournal.gc.cuny.edu/
Journal of the Students of the Ph. D. Program in Hispanic and
Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, The Graduate Center,
The City University of New York.
Fall
2003
Organizer of the Spanish Film Series, La mirada del niño. Department
of Spanish and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, The Graduate
Center, The City University of New York.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
HASTAC member since November 2014.
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OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Sept – Oct. 2002
Intern (commentator and scriptwriter), Radio France International
(Latin American Editorial Department), Paris, France.
June 2002 – Dec. 2002
Freelance Translator, GDS International Ltd, Bristol, UK.
Nov. 2001 – Apr. 2002
Managing Editor Spain, The Cat’s Eyes Magazine
(Site Web Guide & Magazine of Cultural Events in Europe), London, UK.
July – Aug. 2001
Intern (commentator and scriptwriter), Communication Department
ATEI, Televisión Educativa Hispanoamericana, (Hispano-American
Educative Television) Madrid, Spain.
Sept. 2000 – June 2001
Broadcaster and scriptwriter. Radio Universidad de Salamanca,
http://www3.usal.es/~radiouni/, Salamanca, Spain.
MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association (MLA).
Asociación de Teatro Español y Novohispano de los Siglos de Oro (AITENSO).
Renaissance Society of America (RSA).
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC).
American Historical Association (AHA).
Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro (AISO).
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
American and Spanish and Portuguese Historical Association (ASPHS)
International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR)
LANGUAGES
Spanish: Native speaker
English: Near native speaker
French: Near native speaker
DALF C1. Diplôme approfondi de langue française, April 2009
Certificate in French Language, Advanced Level, La Sorbonne, Paris, June 2004
Italian: Fluent
Latin:
Advanced reading proficiency.
German: Reading proficiency.
Portuguese: Reading proficiency.
Hebrew: Basic reading and conversational skills.
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