Julia Farmer
Assistant Professor of Spanish
University of West Georgia
Education:
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Romance Languages and Literatures, 2006.
Dissertation: The Macrotextual Poetics of Imperial Disillusionment in Early Modern Spain and Italy.
AB Bryn Mawr College, Spanish and Italian, 1999.
Summa cum laude with honors in majors.
Fellowships, Awards, and Grants:
Faculty Research Grant, University of West Georgia, 2008-09
Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, 2005-2006.
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for graduate study in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, U.S. Dept. of Education, 2000-2004.
Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall scholarship for junior with highest cumulative GPA, Bryn Mawr College, 1998.
Elizabeth S. Shippen scholarship for junior majoring in foreign languages, Bryn Mawr College, 1998.
Elinor Nahm prize for Italian literature, Bryn Mawr College, 1997.
Elinor Nahm prize for Italian language, Bryn Mawr College, 1996.
Publications:
Book:
Vega, Lope de. Los mártires de Japón. Ed. and Introd. Christina Lee. Notes Christina Lee and Julia Farmer. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta Press, 2006.
Articles:
"The Experience of Exile in Garcilaso's Second Eclogue." Forthcoming in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.
"Disenchanted Castles: Cervantes' Representation of the Ariostan Epic-Romance Split." Cervantes XXIX.2 (Fall 2009): 159-72.
“Return to Sender: Meta-Epistolary Reflections of Political Disillusionment in Petrarch’s Rerum Familiarium Libri.” Forum Italicum 40.2 (Fall, 2006): 234-50.
“¿Entiendes tú el equilibrio? Fashioning a Krausist Gaviota in Galdós’s La Desheredada.” España Contemporánea XVII.2 (2004): 37-51.
Book reviews:
De Armas, Frederick, ed. Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2005. Review in Calíope 13.2 (2007): 96-100.
De Valencia, Pedro. Sobre el pergamino y láminas de Granada. Ed. Grace Magnier. Bern: Peter Lang, 2006. Sixteenth Century Journal 40.2 Summer 2009.
Conference Presentations:
"Shamanism and Myth in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2010.
"The Novelization of Sancho Panza." PAMLA, San Francisco, November 2009.
"Góngora’s Ovidian Palimpsests and Poetic Self-Parody." MLA, San Francisco, December 2008.
"Love Triangles and Mise-en-abyme in Zayas's novella collections." GEMELA, Long Beach, CA, October 2008.
"Transformation or Transportation? Dueling Rituals in the Spanish comedia." MLA, Chicago, December 2007.
"Reading Husband Through Wife: Spousal Politics in Calderón's La cisma de Inglaterra and Antonis Mor's Portrait of Mary Tudor." 23rd Annual International Conference on Literature and the Visual Arts. University of West Georgia, November 2007.
“Performing Ritual in the Spanish chivalric comedia.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Madison, WI, October 2007.
“De sola una hora el desatino: Reflections on Exile in Garcilaso’s Second Eclogue.” Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Miami, November 2005.
“One need but go to Rome: Teresa of Avila and the Text/Image Power Play.” Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, England, April 2005.
“Sotto il suo coperto: Rethinking Ariosto’s Encomium to Charles V.” MLA, Philadelphia, December 2004.
“Return to Sender: Meta-Epistolary Reflections of Political Disillusionment in Petrarch’s Rerum Familiarium Libri.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2004.
“Disenchanted Castles: Cervantes’s Representation of the Ariostan Epic-Romance Split.” MLA, San Diego, December 2003.
“Inter Locos: The Subversion of Textually and Socially Constructed Spaces in María de Zayas’s Disillusionments of Love.” Northern California Renaissance Conference, San José State University, April 2003.
“Social and Textual Enclosure in María de Zayas’s Desengaños amorosos.” Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, March 2003.
Other Conference Activity
Panel Moderator, "Peninsular Literature II," PAMLA, San Francisco, November, 2009.
Panel Organizer, "Authorial Self-Representation and the Spanish Golden Age," MLA, San Francisco, December, 2008.
Panel Moderator, "Spanish Literature I," International Conference on Love and Sex, UWG, November, 2007.
Other Scholarly Activity
Peer review for JAISA, Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts, Spring 2010.
Teaching Experience:
Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of West Georgia, 2007-
SPAN 1001 Elementary Spanish I
SPAN 1002 Elementary Spanish II
SPAN 2001 Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 2002 Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 3102 Composition
SPAN 4012 Spanish Culture and Civilization
SPAN 4240 Spanish Short Story
SPAN 4280 The Spanish Golden Age
SPAN 4785 El Quijote
SPAN 4785 Contemporary Spanish Literature (taught as independent study)
SPAN 4484 Senior Capstone
Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Oberlin College, 2006-07.
HISP 309. Survey of Spanish Literature I: Imperial Spectacles. Introductory survey course of medieval, Golden Age, and colonial Spanish literature.
HISP 420: Gender and the Spanish novella tradition. Topics course devoted to the story collections of Cervantes, Lope de Vega, María de Zayas, and Mariana de Carvajal, with some introductory readings (in English) from the Italian tradition.
Private reading (independent study). Directed a student in readings of 20th-century Italian novels.
HISP 203. Intermediate Spanish II.
HISP 202. Intermediate Spanish I.
Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 2002-2005.
Spanish 1. First-semester Spanish.
Spanish 2. Second-semester Spanish.
Spanish 4. Composition/ Advanced-intermediate Spanish.
Spanish 25. Introduction to Reading and Literary Analysis.
Service:
Departmental:
French search committee, 2007-08.
Advisor, Phi Sigma Iota, 2008.
International film series committee, 2008-.
Study Abroad Committee, 2008-
Co-Director, SAP, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2008-09
Co-Director, SAP, Costa Rica, 2009-10
Chair, Spanish search committee, 2008-09.
Director, 2009 International Conference on History and Fiction.
Chair, Curriculum Committee, 2009-
Member, Budget Committee 2010-
University-wide:
Undergraduate Academic Programs Committee, Spring 2008.
Learning Resources Committee, 2008-
Writing Across the Curriculum, 2008-09
Judge, Research Day (Humanities Division), 2009.
RPG Guide, 2010-
Professional:
Reader, AP Spanish language exam, 2008.
Focus Group Participant, Heinle Publishers, 2008.
Textbook reviewer, Wiley Publishers, 2009.
Community:
Moderator, Hellen Ruffin Reading Bowl, February 2008.
Related Employment:
Research assistant for Professor Emilie Bergmann, 2003-06.
Editorial Assistant for Stacey Schlau and Electa Arenal, 2006.