Kathryn Mayers
Kathryn Mayers, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Associate Professor, and Director of the Salamanca Study Abroad Program
mayerskm@wfu.edu
336-758-4739
Greene Hall 325
Renaissance and Baroque Poetry, Literary Historiography
Kathryn M. Mayers (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 2003) is Associate Professor of Spanish at Wake Forest University. Her research interests are Renaissance and Baroque poetry and literary historiography with a particular focus on visual culture and the intersections of verbal and visual representation. Kathryn’s publications include articles on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Hernando Domínguez Camargo, and Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Her book Visions of Empire in Colonial Spanish American Ekphrastic Writing (in press) studies the rhetorical and ideological role of a number of texts that speak for and about pictures during the period between the Conquest and the independence of Spanish America.
- SPA 212: Exploring the Hispanic World
- SPA 213: Encounters: Hispanic Literature and Culture
- SPA 280: The Spanish-speaking World: Portals and Perspective
- SPA 311: Bard, Ballad, Bolero. Poetry, and Song in the Spanish-Speaking World
- SPA 315: The Making of Spain: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Cultures of Spain
- SPA 316: Paradise in Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Wider Caribbean
- SPA 342: From Colonial to Postcolonial Voices
- SPA 379: Special Topics: From Imagination to Image: Representations of European-American Encounter from 1492-1992
- SPA 398: Honors Directed Reading and Research
- FYS: “The Occidental Tourist: Transatlantic Travels in Art, Film, and Literature”
- FYS: “From Imagination to Image: Representations of European-American Encounter from 1492-1992”