CONTACT INFORMATION:
Lecturer in Spanish
School of Modern Languages
University of Manchester
Arts Building, Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
| Office Telephone: | 00-44-(0)161-275-3688 |
| Office Fax: | 00-44-(0)161-275-3031 |
| Active email: | Esther.Gomez@man.ac.uk |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.art.man.ac.uk/SPANISH/staff/gomez.htm |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Fifteenth-century prose literature, specially dialogues
Rhetoric and its application to the study of texts
Humanism(s)
Golden Age Drama
Women and writing/images of women
Film adaptations of Medieval and Golden Age literary works
The interface between high and popular culture
The heterodoxy of canonic texts.
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
"Palaces of Seeds: From an Experience of Local Cinemas in Post-War Madrid to a Suggested Approach to Film Audiences." Spanish Popular Cinemas. Ed. Andy Willis and Antonio Lázaro-Reboll. Manchester: Manchester UP, forthcoming in March 2004.
"La dama boba, la autoridad y Stefano Arata, autore", Criticon (Toulouse), special number dedicated to Prof. Stefano Arata, forthcoming in 2004. A study on the figure of female authority in Spanish Golden Age theatre.
Diálogo entre el prudente rey y el sabio aldeano (olim Libro de los pensamientos variables). Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 29. (London: Queen Mary and Westfield College, Department of Hispanic Studies, 2000). Edition and study of a single-manuscript dialogue on the subjects of social unrest, good government, and the quest for a happy and virtuous life. The study deals with the topics of the king's relevance and his status in Renaissance Spain and Europe, and with the literary importance of political literature such as the edited dialogue.
"Pedagogía y amicitia: los diálogos latinos de Pedro Sánchez Ciruelo." Actas del VIII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval. Santander: Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval, 2000.
843-856. "Notas sobre algunos textos de Pedro Sánchez Ciruelo y su fortuna editorial y bibliográfica." Text and Manuscript in Medieval Spain. Papers from the King's College Colloquium, ed. David Hook (King's College, London: Department of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 2000): 185-208.
"Home and away in Paris: Pedro Sánchez Ciruelo and his Disputatorius dyalogus." Latin and Vernacular in Renaissance Spain, eds. Barry Taylor and Alejandro Coroleu, Cañada Blanch Monographs, 3 (Manchester: Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, 1999): 83-104.
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Yes, definitely, I am dealing with the interface between the latin culture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and the vernacular culture of the same period. Because of the comparative nature of my research and the relevant presence in my corpus of translations and adaptations of other works written in Romance languages, multilingualism is a key issue.
History of the Medieval Book:
Yes, definitely, as I am in the period of incunabula and I also study manuscript transmission and issues of reception through different editions of the same text.
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
This would be the area I am less familiar with, although I use the XV century chronicles as sources, both factual and ideological.
Other Possible Themes:
Performance in the page
Old and new rhetoric and the pre-romantic text
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in staff exchanges with WUN partner institutions, and in conducting a videoconferencing seminar or course. I have had one previous experience of videoconferencing with Madrid and I found it fascinating.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Women and writing in Spanish (medieval and Golden Age) The rise of the novel
MEDIEVAL COURSES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE DEVELOPED:
Medieval dialogue in Europe
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