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Carolyn Nadeau, Ph.D.

Byron S. Tucci Professor of Hispanic Studies

B.A. - University of Virginia; M.A. - New York University in Madrid; Ph.D. - Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Carolyn Nadeau specializes in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century Spanish literature. Her book, Women of the Prologue: Imitation, Myth, and Magic in Don Quixote I, explores the significance of the women of the prologue in Don Quijote I and Cervantes's impact on the pressing question of literary continuation and cultural authority in Golden Age Spain. She has also published a critical edition of Quevedo's El buscón and has written on mythological female figures in the comedia, the role of the wife and mother in sixteenth-century advice manual, and food representation in Golden Age texts.  Her current project is, Feeding Between the Lines: the Social Significance of Food in Early Modern Spanish Literature.

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cnadeau@iwu.edu (309) 556-3332 Buck 212
Illinois Wesleyan University
Bloomington, IL 61701
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Spring 2012 - IWU Barcelona Program
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