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Rosie M. Seagraves
Graduate Student
I am currently completing my dissertation, entitled “She as He: Cross-dressing, Theater, and “In-Betweens” in Early Modern Spain,” under the direction of Dr. Edward H. Friedman. My research interests include early modern Spanish literature, comedia performance, and gender studies. I recently directed the closing scenes of Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer as part of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities symposium “Early Modern Spanish Theater: Text and Performance.” A video of this performance can be viewed here:
http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2012/04/early-modern-spanish-theater-ana-caros-valor-agravio-y-mujer/
Research
ARTICLES
“Violent Masculinity On Stage and Off: A Re-Reading of Valor, agravio y mujer through the Memoir of Catalina de Erauso.” Bulletin of the Comediantes Forthcoming,64.2 (2012).
REVIEWS
Play review of Tirso de Molina’s Antona García performed at the Chamizal National Memorial. Bulletin of the Comediantes Forthcoming, 2013.
Play review of Lope de Vega’s The Capulets and the Montagues performed at the Chamizal National Memorial. Bulletin of the Comediantes 63.2 (2011)
PAPERS
Participant in “New Approaches to Plays from the Spanish Golden Age through Hidden Histories of Women & Native Americans,” working session included in the American Society for Theatre Resarch’s “Theatrical Histories,” Nashville, TN, November 1-4, 2012
“Don Juan as travesti: Staging the Final Scenes of Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer.” Paper presented at “Building Bridges,” GEMELA, Portland, OR, September 13-15, 2012
“The Narrativity of the Female Cross-Dresser: Tirso de Molina’s La mujer por fuerza.” Paper presented at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 19-21, 2012
“The Metonymic Cross-Dresser of Guillén de Castro’s La fuerza de la costumbre.” Paper presented at the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Conference, El Paso, TX, March 8-10, 2012
‘‘A pares vienen los Giles:’ Female Cross-Dressing, Honor and Metatheater.’ Paper presented at the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Annual Conference, El Paso, TX, March 3-5, 2011
‘Dressing Around: La Manuela’s Dress as Fashion Object in José Donoso’s El lugar sin límites.’ Paper presented at “Bodies and Oddities” Graduate Student Conference, Vanderbilt University, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Nashville, TN, October 2-3, 2010
‘The Barbarity of Monstrosity in The Roaring Girl and La Monja Alférez.’ Paper presented at “Making Connections,” GEMELA, South Hadley MA, September 23-25, 2010
‘Cross-Dressing and Women’s Agency as Related to Violence in Valor, agravio y mujer.’ Paper presented as part of the working session “New Approaches to Spanish Golden Age Plays,” included in the American Society for Theatre Research’s “Unsettling Theatre: Migration, Map, Memory,” Boston, MA November 5-9, 2008
‘Corralled in Almagro: The Didactics of the Classics.’ Co-Presenter with Dr. Vincent Martin. “The Staging of the Spanish Classics,” The Cervantes Institute, Chicago, October 12-14, 2006
Honors
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Graduate Student Fellowship, Mary and Jo Harper Fellow, 2012-2013
College of Arts & Sciences Summer Research Award, Vanderbilt University
Dissertation Enhancement Grant, Vanderbilt University, 2012
NeMLA Summer Fellowship, 2012
Foreign Languages and Area Studies Award (Portuguese), 2010
University Graduate Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2008-2013
AAUP Undergraduate Student Award, 2008
Sigma Delta Pi Book Award, April 2007
Phi Beta Kappa, 2007-
Sigma Delta Pi, 2007-