Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities Department Head, Romance Languages Dana Bultman, Ph.D. 1998 Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am interested in working with WGS students on research projects, including CURO, that focus on women writers, historical conventions of gender and social class, and interfaces between religion and artistic production in the context of the Hispanophone world. I invite WGS undergraduates and graduate students who wish to become more proficient at using UGA's Special Collections archives, such as the Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library, to join the Humanities in Public Life VIPR team, a multi-disciplinary collaboration with Dr. Patricia Richards, Dr. Emily Sahakian, and Dr. Sharina Maíllo-Pozo. I regularly teach SPAN 3030 Texts in Global Contexts and SPAN 4040 Literary Adventures in Spain in Romance Languages, graduate courses in Spanish, and occasionally offer an WGS split level undergraduate/graduate course in English. Research Research Interests: I am a scholar of early modern Spanish literature and culture. My research examines the literary and religious writings of the Spanish Empire, and how these forms continue to inform global culture and collective experience today. My publications include Heretical Mixtures: Feminine and Poetic Opposition to Matter-Spirit Dualism in Spain, 1531–1631, and a critical edition of Francisco de Osuna’s Norte de los estados, a sixteenth-century Franciscan conduct manual for married couples. Across this work, I explore how poetry, narrative, and theological writing mediate relationships between individuals and the worlds they inhabit, and how aesthetic forms both sustain and contest structures of power. My current project, Aesthetic Mediation and the Repair of Collective Life, examines the rural–urban divide in the works of Góngora, Cervantes, and Gracián. The project traces how innovative cultural forms shaped perception and social relations during Spain's crisis and decline as a world power, and how processes of imitation and recomposition can sustain systems of domination or open possibilities for collective repair. My research has also taken shape through international scholarly collaboration and editorial work, including service as book review editor for Calíope and as President of GEMELA, where I helped foster interdisciplinary exchange across institutions in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Selected Publications: BOOKS Francisco de Osuna’s Norte de los estados in Modernized Spanish: A Practical Guide to Conjugal Life in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Leeds, UK: ARC Humanities Press, 2019. 360 pp. Heretical Mixtures: Feminine and Poetic Opposition to Matter-Spirit Dualism in Spain, 1531-1631. Valencia, Spain: Albatros-Hispanófila Siglo XXI, 2007. 229 pp. (on Luis de Góngora's poetics). ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS “Josefa Amar’s Enlightened Silences: Drawing Divisions with a Peculiar Catalogue of Early Modern Women,” in Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies/ Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (2024) 50 (1-2): 41-61. https://doi.org/10.14321/jgendsexustud.50.1-2.0041 "Waste, Exclusion, and the Responsibility of the Rich: A Franciscan Critique of Early Capitalist Europe." Religions. 13.9 (2022): 18pp. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090818 "Winds, Heart, and Heat in Premodern Franciscan and Nahua Concepts of 'Soul.'" Colonial Latin American Review. 27.3 (2018): 296-315. https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2018.1527525 “‘Your Clogs will be My Stairway to Heaven:’ A Wife’s Spiritual Goodness in Francisco de Osuna’s Reformist Dialogue on Marriage, Norte de los estados.” Paradigm Shifts during the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ed. Albrecht Classen. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2019: 255-78. “Social Class.” In Using Primary Sources: A Practical Guide for Students. Ed. Jonathan Hogg. Liverpool University Press and University of Liverpool Library in partnership with KISC, 2017. An Open Access e-textbook. “Jealousy in María de Zayas’s Intercalated Poetry: Lyric Illness and Narrative Cure.” In Golden Age Poetry in Motion. Eds. Jean Andrews and Isabel Torres. Woodbridge, England: Tamesis, 2014: 145-163. “Conceptualización de la naturaleza creativa: Góngora y Luis Martín de la Plaza en Flores de poetas ilustres (1605).” In Los géneros poéticos del Siglo de Oro: Centros y periferias. Eds. Rodrigo Cacho Casal y Anne Holloway. Woodbridge, England: Tamesis, 2013: 295-312.
