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CHRISTINA INS MCCOY

CURRICULUM VITAE
Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures
Christopher Newport University
McMurran Hall 131
Newport News, VA 23606

+1-913-206-9286
christina.mccoy@cnu.edu
www.christinamccoy.com

EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Hispanic Literature, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, The University of Texas at
Austin, May 2015
Dissertation Title: The Self as Subject and the Subjected Self: Networks of Being and Becoming
in the Captivity of Miguel de Cervantes and Antonio de Sosa
Dissertation Committee: Cory Reed (chair), Jill Robbins, Michael Harney, Elizabeth
Richmond-Garza, Geraldine Heng
Portfolio in Womens and Gender Studies
M.A.

Hispanic Literature, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, The University of Texas at

Austin, 2009

B.A.

Spanish and Portuguese & Latin American Studies, The University of Kansas, Lawrence,
2006
Study Abroad, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, 2005

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
2015-present

Christopher Newport University, Visiting Assistant Professor

PUBLICATIONS:
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Traveling through Time and Space: Saramago, Cervantes and the Chivalric Tradition. 452oF
Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature 11 (2014): 80-92. Web.
Engendering the Orient: Cervantes La gran sultana. eHumanista/Cervantes 2 (2013): 245-59. Web.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
Holding Identity Captive: Reorienting Race, Gender and Religion in Antonio de Sosa. Travel,
Contact, Exchange: 34th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum at Plymouth State University, April
19-20, 2013. Ed. Aniesha R. Andrews. Weston: PHI Press, 2014. 88-96. Print.

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
La memoria evasiva y el discurso femenino en Maldito amor por Rosario Ferr. Pterodctilo 7 (2009).
Web.
Entrevista a Isabel Franc. Pterodctilo 7 (2009). Web.
Entrevista a Ana Rossetti. Pterodctilo 6 (2009). Web.
MANUSCRIPTS IN SUBMISSION:
Affective Networks and the Human in Cervantes Algerian Captivity Plays. Invited to revise and
resubmit, Cervantes.
A Doctor Without Borders: Identity, Religion and Masculinity in Early Modern Algiers. Under
review, Laberinto.
HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS:
2010-2014

Carrie Lee Kennedy Fellowship, UT-Austin

2012-2014

Oliver William Kennedy Fellowship, UT-Austin

2013, 2014

Medieval Studies Grant, UT-Austin

2008-2014

Professional Development Award, UT-Austin

2013

Summer Dissertation Research Award, UT-Austin

2012

High Pass on all PhD Qualifying Exams, UT-Austin

2011-2012

Mentor Assistant Instructor Award, UT-Austin

2010-2011

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Academic Year Fellowship for the study
of Portuguese

2010

Glenn Maloney Endowed Memorial Scholarship for Improving the Quality of

Student Life, UT-Austin (I was the first graduate student to win this award)

2009

High Pass on all MA Qualifying Exams

2008

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

2008-2008

Pre-Emptive Recruitment Fellowship, UT-Austin

2006-2007

Grant, North American Language & Culture Assistant, Awarded by the Junta de
Andaluca and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education, Mlaga, Spain

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:
INVITED PRESENTATIONS:
Constructing Identities Through Technology. Susquehanna University Latino Symposium, April
4, 2014.
What is the Early Modern Iberian World? Parameters and Prospects Roundtable. Ideology Vs.
Practice in the Early Modern Iberian World, The University of Kansas, February 28, 2014.

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PAPERS PRESENTED:
Feminizing the Enemy: The Masculine Body in Antonio de Sosa. Don Quijote and the
Mediterranean World, Austin, Texas, October 18, 2015.
Affective Networks and the Human in Cervantes Algerian Captivity Plays. Modern Language
Association (MLA) Convention, Vancouver, Canada, January 11, 2015.
Linked In: Networks in the Captivity of Cervantes. South Central Modern Language Association
(SCMLA), Austin, Texas, October 21, 2014.
Cervantes, Corsairs and Captivity: Towards a Mediterranean Social Network. Prisons of Stone,
Word, and Flesh: Medieval and Early Modern Captivity, Brown University, February 21,
2014.
Holding Identity Captive: Race, Gender and Religion in Antonio de Sosa. Plymouth State
Medieval and Renaissance Forum, April 20, 2013.
Performing the Orient in the Spanish Corral: The Case of La gran sultana. Catholic University of
America Graduate Student Conference, April 6, 2013.
Reorienting Race, Gender and Religion in Don Quijote. (Dis)locating Justice: Emerging Scholarship
in Womens and Gender Studies, UT-Austin, March 30, 2012.
The Gendered Orient: Decorum, Artifice and Identity in Cervantes La gran sultana. 2nd Cervantes
Society of America Central Texas Cervantes Symposium, October 21, 2011.
Traveling Through Time and Space: Saramago, Cervantes and the Chivalric Tradition. The
Labyrinths: French, Hispanic and Italian Studies Conference, The University of British
Columbia, October 1, 2011.
Shakespearean Candor and Cervantine Ambiguity: Fathers and Daughters in Don Quijote and The
Merchant of Venice. Cervantes Society of America Central Texas Symposium, November 19,
2010.
La pedagoga queer: Alaska, La bola de cristal y la educacin infantil de la movida. Mid-America
Conference on Hispanic Literature (MACHL), October 29, 2010.
Female Drag, Sexual Ambiguity and Pop Music in la movida madrilea. Asociacin Internacional de
Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispnica (AILCFH), October 15, 2010.
Racializing the Exotic Body: Transreligious Women in el Quijote. Colloquium on Hispanic and
Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics, UT-Austin, November 13, 2009.
Zoraida and Ana Flix: Cervantine Bookends to the Arab-Spanish Conflict. Mid-America
Conference on Hispanic Literature (MACHL), November 6, 2009.
Writing the Nation: Memory and Gender in Maldito amor by Rosario Ferr. Postcolonial
Actualities: Past & Present, UT-Austin, October 17, 2009.
El escapismo cinematogrfico en La traicin de Rita Hayworth. Colloquium on Hispanic and LusoBrazilian Literatures and Linguistics, UT-Austin, November 8, 2008.
Desvistiendo el fetichismo en Simparidades por Ana Rossetti. Columbia/NYU Graduate Student
Conference on Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures, April 5, 2008.

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PANELS ORGANIZED/CHAIRED:
Racial and Religious Transactions in Early Modern Iberia. Northeast Modern Language
Association (NeMLA), Harrisburg, PA, April 5 2014.
DISCUSSANT:
Imagining Mediterranean Spaces and Places. Don Quijote and the Mediterranean World, The
University of Texas at Austin, October 19, 2015.
The Habsburgs Encounter the World. Ideology Vs. Practice in the Early Modern Iberian World,
The University of Kansas, February 27, 2014.
Writing Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature. 20th Colloquium on Hispanic
and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics, The University of Texas, March 3, 2012.
COURSES TAUGHT:
CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY:
Effective Communication in Spanish, Fall 2015-Spring 2016
Intermediate Spanish I, Fall 2015
UT-AUSTIN:
Spanish Civilization, Summer 2012
Intermediate Spanish II, Summer 2011-Spring 2012
Second-Year Spanish I , Spring 2010-Summer 2010
Alternate First-Year Spanish II, Fall 2009
OTHER:
Instructor, Spanish Over Coffee, Speak Spanish Inc., Austin, Texas, 2008
Language and Culture Teaching Assistant, Mlaga, Spain, 2006-2007
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:
Reviewer, 452oF Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature.
DEPARTMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVCE:
CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY:
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Minor Faculty Member, 2015
North Africa and Middle East Studies Minor Faculty Member, 2015
International Education Week Organizer, 2015

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UT-AUSTIN:
Graduate Research Assistant, Don Quijote and the Mediterranean World Conference, October 1819, 2015
Organizer, Colloquium of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, The Future of Latin
American Cultural Studies: 20 Years of JLACS, March 29-31, 2012
Graduate Student Representative, College of Liberal Arts Tuition and Budget Advisory Council,
2010-2011 (I was one of only two graduate students appointed)
Graduate Student Representative, Deans Student Advisory Council, The Graduate School, 20102011
Graduate Student Representative, Gender Council, College of Liberal Arts, 2010-2011 (I was the
only graduate student representative on this committee)
Organizer, 20th Annual Conference of the AILCFH, October 14-16, 2010
Programs Director and Executive Officer, Graduate Student Assembly, 2009-2010
Spanish Poetry Declamation Contest Judge, UT-Austin. 2009
Departmental Representative, Graduate Student Assembly, UT-Austin. 2008-2009
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY:
English: native
Spanish: near-native fluency
Portuguese: intermediate speaking, advanced reading and writing
French: basic reading
MEMBERSHIPS:
Cervantes Society of America
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater
Asociacin Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispnica (AILCFH)
Mediterranean Studies Association
Renaissance Society of America
Northeast Modern Language Association
Modern Language Association

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REFERENCES:
Cory Reed, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
The University of Texas at Austin
150 W. 121st Street, B3700
Austin, TX 78712
512-471-4936
Jill Robbins, PhD
Dean
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
The University of California, Merced
5200 N. Lake Road
Merced, CA 95343
209-228-4400
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, PhD
Associate Professor, Director of the Program in Comparative Literature
Department of English
University of Texas at Austin
204 W 21st Street, B5000
Austin, TX 78712
512-471-4991
Geraldine Heng, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Texas at Austin
204 W 21st Street, B5000
Austin, TX 78712
512-471-4991