Name: Bonnie L. Gasior
Rank: Assistant Professor
Education: M.A., Purdue University . Ph.D., Purdue University .
Contact Information: MHB 809 / x55138 / bgasior@csulb.edu
Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish Golden Age drama; Colonial Spanish-American Narrative; Women writers of seventeenth century Spain and Spanish-America; Gender Studies; Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Travel Narratives; Transatlantic studies; Spanish Baroque poetry; Marginalization (class, race) in Literature.
Selected Publications:
7/2003 “Slaying the Beast: The Case of Beatriz in Sor Juana's La segunda Celestina .” Bulletin of the Comediantes . (forthcoming)
7/2003 “ La monja alférez : cuerpo, discurso y texto híbrido.” Las Jornadas Metropolitanas . Impresos Johnny: Mexico City, 2003.
3/2004 “Erasing the (Monstrous) Feminine: Juan Pérez de Montalván's La monja alférez . "Beyond the Convent: Colonial Women's Voices and Daily Challengings in Spanish America ." Special edition of Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Hispánicos y Lingüística . Forthcoming, 2005.
3/2004 Book Review of Gender, Power, and the Word. Ed. Linda Longmire and Lisa Merrill. Westport , Conn : Praeger, 2001 . Journal of Research in International Education. Bath , England .
3/2004 Book Review of The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism . Keith A. Sandiford. ASECS Book Review Online .
2004 (Work in progress) Crosscurrents : Transatlantic Perspectives on Early
Modern Spanish and Spanish-American Theater . Ed. Mindy Badía and
Bonnie Gasior. (under contract with Bucknell University Press).
Awards and Honors:
3/2003 Named to the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Executive
Board of Directors.
4/2003 SCAC grant (3 units release time).
4/2003 Delta Gamma “Professor Dinner” invitee
6/2003 SCAC Conference Grant.
2/2004 Delta Zeta “Professor Dinner” invitee
4/2004 Delta Gamma “Professor Dinner” invitee
4/2004 Internationalizing the Curriculum Award.
Conference Presentations:
3/2002. “Erasing the feminine: Juan Pérez Montalván's La M onja alférez .” Association for Classical Hispanic Theater. El Paso , TX .
4/2002. “A comparison of Catalina de Erauso's and Juan Pérez de Montalván's Lamonja alférez.” Medieval and RenaissanceStudies Group, California State University, Long Beach .
7/2002. “ La monja alférez : cuerpo, discurso y texto híbrido.” Las Jornadas Metropolitanas. Mexico City, Mexico.
9/2002. “Slaying the Beast: The Case of Beatriz in Sor Juana's La segunda Celestina.” Asociación de Escritoras Españolas y Americanas. Portland, Oregon.
9/2002. Chair, Women Writing Subjectivity . AEEA. Portland , Oregon .
3/2003. “Food For Thought: Aspects of Carnival and the Female Grotesque in Lope's La dama boba .” Association for Classical Hispanic Theater. El Paso, Texas.
3/2003. Chair and co-organizer of panel Crosscurrents I . Association for
Classical Hispanic Theater, El Paso , Texas .
9/2003 “Bartolomé de las Casas, Alonso de Espinosa, and Lope de Vega:
Engendering a (Female) Poetics of Incursion: The Case of The Guanches de Tenerife and Conquest of the Canary Islands.” Cultural
Conquests: 1500-2000. International Colloquium: The Seminar of General and Comparative History, Institute of World History of the Charles University ( Prague ), and European Urban History Group at the Universities of Newcastle and Northumbria . Prague , Czech Republic .
Conquest in Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de gran canaria .” Asociación Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica. Boca Raton, FL.
Courses Taught:
SPANISH 201-A: Intermediate Spanish
SPANISH 310: Introduccion a la literatura hispánica
SPANISH 400/500: Don Quijote y sus críticos
SPANISH 441/541: 19th & 20th C. Spanish-American Narrative
RGR/CHLS 450: Consequences of the Encounter: Europe , the Americas , and Africa .
SPANISH 538: Studies in Golden Age Literature (“Cuerpos, Discuros, y Textos al Márgen en la Literatura del Siglo de Oro”)
SPANISH 550: Studies in Colonial Spanish-American Literature
SPANISH 590: Medieval Literature