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Nina Davis
Title:Associate Professor of Spanish
Degree:PHD, Johns Hopkins University
MA, Johns Hopkins University
BA, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Dept:
Office:Ridgley Hall 407
Mailbox: Full Mailing Address
Phone:(314) 935-5192
E-mail:ncdavis@wustl.edu

Courses
Spanish Literature I; Cervantes: Don Quixote; 16th and 17th Century Prose; The Golden Age: Novelas

Research Interests
sixteenth and seventeenth century Peninsular drama; Golden Age historiography and contemporary theories of historical writing; literary theory; early modern peninsular prose; Spanish and comparative picaresque studies, Cervantes

Selected Publications

Autobiography as Burla inthe Guzman de Alfarache.  Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1991.

"Ways of Remembering: Cervantes and the Historians, Don Quixote, Part I."  Proceedings of the conference 1605-2005, Don Quixote Across the Centuries, 2006.

"Re-framing Discourse: Women Before their Public in Maria de Zayas," Hispanic Review 71 (2003): 325-344.

"Marriage and Investment in El celoso extremeno."  Romantic Review 86, 4 (1995): 639-655.

"Breaking the Barriers: the Birth of Lopez de Ubeda's Picara Justina."  The Picaresque: Tradition and Displacement.  Ed. Giancarlo Maiorino.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Fall 1995.  137-158.