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Carmela Mattza | LSU Foreign Languages and Literatures

 

Carmela Mattza

Carmela V. Mattza 
Associate Professor of Spanish
Graduate Advisor
Faculty Senate Member-At-Large
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2009
Phone: 225-578-6638
E-mail: cmattza@lsu.edu
Office: 308 Hodges Hall
 
Area of Interest 
Through an interdisciplinary approach, I explore the cultural landscape of Early Modern Iberia, examining how women's literary contributions, ekphrastic representation, and the experience of emotions and environment are interconnected. I also investigate the impact of the Reformation on Catholic monastic life and the influence of classical Greco-Roman thought on Hispanic literature.
 
Recent Teaching
  •     Span 7994 Hispanic Food Studies
  •     Span 7950 Graduate Seminar Ekphrasis and Geography of Authority and Power in Spanish Golden Age Plays. 
  •     Span 4053 Seminar Special Topics in Spanish Golden Age: Don Quijote. 
  •     Span 3980 Environment, Faith and Food in The Americas and Spain.
 
Selected Awards & Honors
  •     Newberry Library Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow (Short Term Fellowship 2023), Chicago, 1 鈥�30 July 2023.
  •     NEH Summer Fellowship 2022, 鈥淧rinting of the Book During the Reformation鈥�, Ohio State University 5-30 July 2022.
  •     Modern Language Association (MLA), Bibliographer Fellowship, 2017-2020.
  •     2020 Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award in the College of Humanities and Social Science.
  •     Elected Executive Council Member of the Cervantes Society of America (CSA), (2025-2028).
  •     Elected Executive Committee Member of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), (2022-2025)
  •     Elected Modern Language Association (MLA) Forum Executive Committee Member of 16th-17th Century Spanish Theater        and Iberian Drama (2021-2026)
Selected Publications
Books
  • Mattza, C. V. (2017). Hacia La Vida Es Sue帽o Como Speculum Reginae: Isabel De Borb贸n En La Corte De Felipe IV. Madrid, Verbum Editorial, pp. 198.  
    • Review of Manuel Delgado Morales. La vida es sue帽o como speculum reginae: Isabel de Borb贸n en la corte de Felipe IV by Carmela V. Mattza. Hispanofila.  Summer 2021, Issue 192, pp. 220-221.
    • Review of Carlos Guti茅rrez. La vida es sue帽o como speculum reginae: Isabel de Borb贸n en la corte de Felipe IV by Carmela V. Mattza. Cincinnati Romance Review 49, Fall, 2020, pp. 119-121.
    • Review of Pedro M谩rmol. La vida es sue帽o como speculum reginae: Isabel de Borb贸n en la corte de Felipe IV by Carmela V. Mattza. Lexis 43 N潞. 1, 2019, pp. 233-238.
    • Review of Robin, Rice. La vida es sue帽o como speculum reginae: Isabel de Borb贸n en la corte de Felipe IV by Carmela V. Mattza. Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro 6, N潞. 2, 2018, pp. 833-835.
Special Edition
    • Co-Editor, with Frederick de Armas. Cervantes, The Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, vol. 42.1, 2022, special volume, "Excesos y excentricidades cervantinas/ Cervantine Excesses and Eccentricities", pp. 9-222. (Online version released via project Muse, December 2022).
Notable Book Chapters
    • 芦The Completo Tratado de Cosmographia y Geographia, by Juan de Espa帽a (1561鈥�1626)..禄 Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, vol. 9 no. 2, 2024, p. 341-353. Project MUSE, .
    • 芦De Francisco Sales a Ilan Stavans: Apuntes sobre mediaci贸n y cultura en la adaptaci贸n y traducci贸n de Don Quijote en los Estados Unidos de Am茅rica.禄 Estudios del Observatorio / Observatorio Studies, 93, pp. 39-49. Special issue, New Perspectives on Hispanic Cultures: La traducci贸n entre el espa帽ol y el ingl茅s en los Estados Unidos / English-Spanish Translation in the US Context. .
    • 芦Emotional Objects in the Episode of the Cave of Montesinos.禄 Peculiar Lives in Early Modern Spain: Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen, ed. by Robert Bayliss, Judith Caballero, Esther Fernandez and Yuri Porras, New Orleans, University Press of the South, 2020, vol. 1, pp. 29-44.
    • Emotion, Object and Space (Pedro Calder贸n de la Barca鈥檚 La vida es sue帽o and Tang Xianz煤鈥檚 The Peony Pavillion).禄 Faraway Settings: Spanish and Chinese Theaters of the 16th and 17th century, ed. by Juan Pablo Gil-Osl茅 and Frederick A. De Armas. Madrid/Frankfurt, Iberoamericana/Vervuert,  2019, pp. 109-136.
    • 芦A Stage for Isabel de Borb贸n: From Paris to Aranjuez.禄 Beyond Spain鈥檚 Borders: Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters, ed. Anne J. Cruz and Mar铆a Cristina Quintero. New York: Routledge, 2016, pp. 213-238.
Invited Presentations
    • 芦Isabel de Borb贸n as the New Astraea in the Ballet de Madame Le Triumphe de Minerva. ACommentary on the Fluidity of Identity across Cultural Contexts,禄 Symposium in Honor of Frederick A. De Armas at University of Chicago. The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 17, 2024.
    • 芦驴La mejor o m谩s bella rosa? 驴Coloquio o drama? 驴Teatro 谩ureo o colonial? Apuntes sobre un manuscrito del siglo XVII en la Hispanic Society of America,禄 Teatro Novo Hispano Conference, Teatro Circulo, New York, NY, Nov. 10, 2023.  
    • 芦MLA International Bibliography para la investigaci贸n y la ense帽anza de la literatura y las lenguas. EBSCO MLA IB,禄 Special presentation organized by EBSCO for Latin America and Spain. October 31, 2023.
    • 芦Excesos y excentricidades de Don Quijote via Twitter,禄 II Jornadas Cervantinas 芦Juan Haldudo禄 芦Cervantes y el Quijote: texto, contexto y pretexto,禄 Mota del Cuervo (Cuenca), 31 de marzo-1 de abril de 2023.
    • 芦Integrating Information Literacy in Writing, Literature, and Language Instruction,禄 Special panel sponsored by the MLA International Bibliography at the 2023 MLA Convention in San Francisco. Jan 3-7, 2023.
    • o   芦La Vida es Sue帽o de Pedro Calder贸n de la Barca como Speculum Reginae,禄 guest lecture at Universiteit Gent, 22 March 2022.
Seminars
    • Actionable AI in the Humanities Classroom: A Workshop with the MLA CCCC Task Force on AI, Modern Language Association Pre-Convention Workshop, New Orleans, LA, January 2024.
    • Making ChatGPT a Friend, Not a Foe for Language and Teaching, ACTFL Pre Convention Workshop, Chicago, IL , November 2023.
    • Accredited External Reviewer for ADFL (Association of Departments of Foreign Languages), Summer 2022.
Service to the Community and LSU
    • Graduate Advisor, M.A. in Hispanic Studies (August 2024 to present)
    • Interim Spanish Undergraduate Advisor (January 2023 - June 2023)
    • Spanish Language Coordinator (August 2023 to August 2024)
    • Graduate Advisor, M.A. in Hispanic Studies (August 2017 - December 2019)
    • LSU HSS Faculty Senator (2014-2016)
    • Program Director, LSU Summer in Spain, 2025
    • Program Director, LSU Summer in Spain, 2023 
Committee Assignments
    • Spanish Undergraduate Studies Committee 
    • Spanish Graduate Studies Committee
    • Department of World Languages Peer Evaluation Committee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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