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.
- SPN 398: Honors Directed Reading and Research
- SPN 379: Special Topics: “From Imagination to Image: Representations of European-American Encounter from 1492-1992”
- SPA 369: Latin American Historical Fiction: Memory, Myth, and Social Justice.
- SPN 359: “The Occidental Tourist: Transatlantic Travels in Art, film, and Literature”
- SPN 351: Transatlantic Renaissance
- SPN 342: From Colonial to Postcolonial Voices
- SPN 318: Literary and Cultural Studies of Spanish America
- SPA 317: Literary and Cultural Studies of Spain
- SPA 316: Paradise in Perspective
- SPA 311: Bard, Ballad, Bolero
- SPA 301: Intensive Orientation Course: Salamanca
- SPA 280: The Spanish-speaking World: Portals and Perspective
- SPN 216: Introduction to Hispanic Studies
- SPA 213: Encounters: Hispanic Literature and Culture
- SPA 212: Exploring the Hispanic World
- FYS 100: “The Occidental Tourist: Transatlantic Travels in Art, Film, and Literature”
- FYS 100: “From Imagination to Image: Representations of European-American Encounter from 1492-1992”