Viviana Diaz Balsera

Professor

vdiaz-balsera@miami.edu

Phone:
(305) 284-4858 x7222
Locator Code:
4650
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Career

Education

1989Ph.D. Yale University
1977B.A. University of Texas at Austin

COURSE LINKS

  • Knowledge, Culture and Resistance in Colonial Spanish America |
  • Cosmology, Magic and Culture in Early Modern Europe and Colonial Spanish-America |
  • The Figure of the Shaman in Latin American Literature |
  • Studies in Colonial Textual Production: the Chronicles of Indies |
  • Inscribing the Female Voice in Golden Age Spain and Colonial Spanish America |
  • Hispanic Women Writers in the Early Modern Period (Undergraduate) |
  • Honor, Violence and Love in Early Modern Spain (Undergraduate) |
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    Honors & Acknowledgements

    Fellowships
    University of Miami. Provost’s Research Award. Award in Arts and Humanties. Summer 2015.

    Center for the Humanities Research Fellowship. University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences: AY 2013-2014.

    Florida 2013 Initiative Grant, The Florida Humanities Council, in conjunction with the College of Arts and Sciences Center for the Humanities Grant funds conference for “ Florida at the Crossroads: Five Hundred Years of Encounters, Conflicts and Exchanges.”

    COURSE LINKS

  • Knowledge, Culture and Resistance in Colonial Spanish America |
  • Cosmology, Magic and Culture in Early Modern Europe and Colonial Spanish-America |
  • The Figure of the Shaman in Latin American Literature |
  • Studies in Colonial Textual Production: the Chronicles of Indies |
  • Inscribing the Female Voice in Golden Age Spain and Colonial Spanish America |
  • Hispanic Women Writers in the Early Modern Period (Undergraduate) |
  • Honor, Violence and Love in Early Modern Spain (Undergraduate) |
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    Research

    LIST OF SPECIALTIES: Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies (including Latinx Studies) | Cultural Studies | Hemispheric Caribbean Studies | Medieval and Early Modern | Peninsular Studies and Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies

    Publications

    Eds. Adrienne L. Martín and María Cristina Quintero Mujer-Águila, polvo espiritado, y un conejo boca arriba: oraciones y conjuros para el parto en el México pre-hispánico y colonial253-68 (New York, Artepoetica. 2015).

    Díaz Balsera, Viviana and Rachel E. May, eds. La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Spanish Presence. (Gainesville, University of Florida Press. 2014).

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