Publications

Book-in-Progress

  • Jezebel in the Landscape: Tirso de Molina’s La mujer que manda en casa (The Woman who Rules the Roost).  

Interviews with Theater Directors

  • “Tirso’s Damned by Despair at London’s National Theatre: An Interview with Bijan Shebani.” Comedia Performance 10.1 (2013): 195-226. Print.
  • “Cardenio, or Cervantes and Shakespeare Re-Imagined: An Interview with Gregory Doran.”  Comedia Performance 9.1 (2012): 199-277. Print.
  • “Calderón’s Dream on the London Stage: A Conversation with Jonathan Munby.” Comedia Performance 8.1 (2011): 201-225. Print.
  • “The Landscapes of Love in Valor, agravio y mujer: An Interview with Hugo Medrano.” Comedia Performance 5.1 (2008): 154-68. Print.

Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Celia Is the Subplot of El condenado por desconfiado.” Reading and Writing Subjects in Medieval and Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of Ronald E. Surtz. Eds. Christina Lee and  José Luis Gastañaga Ponce de León. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2016. https://www.academia.edu/28729638/Reading_and_Writing_Subjects_in_Medieval_and_Golden_Age_Spain_Essays_in_Honor_of_Ronald_E_Surtz
  • “Three Productions of El condenado por desconfiado: The Devil’s Polymorphism in Our Time.” Prismatic Reflections on Spanish Golden Age Theater: Essays in Honor of Matthew D. Stroud. Eds. Gwyn E. Campbell and Amy R. Williamsen. New York: Peter Lang, 2016. 265-274. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051689
  • ​“Enseñar los jardines de Teresa de Jesús.” Symposium: Santa Teresa y el mundo teresiano del barroco. Ed. Francisco Javier Campos y Fernández de Sevillas. Instituto Escurialense de Investigaciones Históricas y Artísticas, Real Centro Universitario Escorial-María Cristina, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, 2015. 237-250. 15 Sept. 2015 <http://www.rcumariacristina.com/centro-universitario/instituto-escurialense/search>24 Nov. 2015.
  • “The New World in Lope de Vega’s Columbus and Saint Christopher: El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón.” A Companion to Early Modern Hispanic Theater. Ed. Hilaire Kallendorf. Leiden, Renaissance Society of American Texts and Studies 2. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2014. 185-215. Print. https://brill.com/view/book/9789004263017/B9789004263017_013.xml
  • “El jardín monstruoso de La venganza de Tamar” La Biblia en el teatro español. Eds. Francisco Domínguez Matito and  Juan Antonio Martínez Berbel. Vigo [Spain]: Academia del Hispanismo, 2012. 625-633. Print.
  • “Dramatizing Dorotea: Cervantes’s Plucky Heroine in the RSC’s Cardenio.”  Comedia Performance 9.1 (2012): 162-88. Print.
  • “The Real and Mystical Gardens of Teresa of Ávila.” A New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism. Ed. Hilaire Kallendorf. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2010. 323-342. Print.
  • “The Paradisal Geography of La mujer que manda en casa.” Bulletin of the Comediantes Vol. 60.2 (2008): 41-55. Print.
  • “The Pícaro as Guide to the Academic Essay.” Approaches to Teaching Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Tradition. Ed. Anne J. Cruz.  New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008. 103-107. Print.
  • “Dramatizing Garden Imagination in Baroque Spain.” Gardens and Imagination: Cultural History and Agency. Ed. Michel Conan. Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, 30. Washington, D. C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2008. 224-42. Print.
  • “The Trickster Crow Redeemed in Tirso’s La mujer que manda en casa.” Romance Quarterly. 55.2 (2008): 96-108. Print.
  • “Staging Elías in the Wilderness in La mujer que manda en casa.” Comedia Performance 2.1 (2005): 113-45. Print.
  • “The Call of the Natural World in Los baños de Argel” Bulletin of Comediantes, 56.2 (2004): 345-66. Print.
  • “The Toothsome Mouth in El médico de su honra.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 55.1 (2003): 95-119. Print.
  • “La gran sultana: Transformations in Secret Speech.” Cervantes 16.1 (1996): 74-90. Print.

Translations (from the French)

Mohammed El Faïz. “The Garden Strategy of  the Almohad Sultans and Their Successors (1157-1900).” Translated by Maryrica Ortiz Lottman. Middle East Garden Traditions: Unity and Diversity; Questions, Methods and Resources in a Multicultural Perspective. Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, 31. Ed. Michel Conan. (Washington, D. C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2007).  Distributed by Harvard UP. pp. 97-111. Print.

Mohammed El Faïz. “Marrakech: An Ecological Miracle and Its Wanton Destruction  (1071-2000 AD).” Translated by Maryrica Ortiz Lottman. Gardens, City Life and Culture: A World Tour. Ed. Michel Conan and Chen Whangheng. Dumbarton Oaks Studies in Garden and Landscape History. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2008. 193-201. The Chinese translation of this English-language volume was published by Wuhan University Press in 2007 (ISBN 7-307-05235-O/TU.64). Print.

SELECTED CONFERENCES (All are refereed.)

  • “Cannibalism as Connubial Bliss and More in Tirso’s La mujer que manda en casa.” Annual Meeting of the Modern Languages Association (MLA). Austin, TX. Jan. 6-10, 2016.
  • “Performing La gran sultana in the United Kingdom.” Play and Display in the Early Modern Hispanic World. Princeton Univeristy, Princeton NJ. May 15-16, 2015.
  • “Staging the Mediterranean World of Shakespeare and Cervantes.” Annual Meeting of the Modern Languages Association (MLA). Vancouver, Canada. Jan. 8-11, 2015
  • ​“Celia Is the Subplot of El condenado por desconfiado.” Symposium in Honor of Ronald E. Surtz. Princeton University, Princeton NJ. 12 October 2013.
  • “Equestrian Virility in the RSC’s Cardenio.” Cervantes on the European Stage. William Andrews Clark Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. 11 October 2013.
  • “Sea and Garden in the Agdal of Cervantes’s Los baños de Argel.” Panel sponsored by the Cervantes Society of America. Renaissance Society of America, Washington DC. March 22-24, 2012.
  • “Semiramis and the Babylonian Bricks of Tirso’s La mujer que manda en casa.” Renaissance Society of America. Venice, Italy. April 8-10, 2010.
  • “The Seductive Eden of Tirso de Molina’s La mujer que manda en casa.” Out of the Wings Symposium: “Spanish Golden Age Drama in Translation and Performance.” Merton College, Oxford University, United Kingdom. March, 2010.
  • “The Real and Mystical Gardens of Teresa of Ávila.” Annual Meeting of the Modern Languages Association (MLA). Philadelphia, PA. December 2009.
  • “El jardín monstruoso de La venganza de Tamar.” Congreso Internacional “La Biblia en el teatro español.” Instituto Orígenes del Español. Centro Internacional de Investigación de la Lengua Española (CILENGUA). San Millán de la Cogolla (La Rioja), Spain. Nov. 24-29, 2008.

Theater Reviews

  • “Life Is a Dream. By Calderón de la Barca. Dir. Jonathan Munby. Donmar Warehouse, London.” Comedia Performance 7.1 (2010): 301-306.  Print.
  • “El rufián Castrucho. By Lope de Vega. Dir. Hugo Medrano. Gala Theatre, Washington, D.C.” Comedia Performance 4.1 (2007): 248-52. Print.

Book Reviews and Review Essays (selected)

  • La Estrella de Sevilla. Ed. John C. Parrack.  Bulletin of the Comediantes 65.1 (2013): 183-184. Print.
  • “The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry.” Northwest Review 33.2 (1995): 122-23. Print.
  • “Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women.” The Literary Review  39.1 (1995): 117-22. Print.
  • “Three Books by Enid Shomer.” The Chattahoochee Review 15.3 (1995): 119-25. Print.
  • “Refuge.” Iowa Woman 13.4 (1994): 46-47. Print.
  • “Ararat.” The Hollins Critic. 31.3 (1994): 14. Print.