Copeland Hall 120 C
diegovalmon@ou.edu
Profile
I earned my Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of California, Davis. Immediately after completing my graduate education, I joined the University of Oklahoma as a Lecturer and have been here since the 2018-19 academic year.
My research concentrates on the extremely broad field of religious literature from the Spanish Golden Age, with a specialization in nun’s writing, particularly lyric poetry. I examine the features that characterize their writings, including the somatization of the religious experience, that this, how they perceive the Divine through the body. My doctoral dissertation focused on the lyric poetry of three early modern Spanish nuns who utilize erotic discourse to describe their particular relationship with God.
At OU I have taught mostly first and second semester Spanish, Introduction to Hispanic Literature and Culture, and Spanish for Business. I have also hosted the Spanish Conversation Hour and strive to be an active member of the community.
Selected Publications
"Posibilidades teatrales de un episodio del Quijote: Hacia una «Comedia de Cardenio y Dorotea»”. In Cervantes sin fronteras. Ed. David Felipe Arranz and Abderrahmán El Fathi. Sevilla: Editorial Renacimiento, 2017. (forthcoming)
Book reviews:
Nogar, Anna M. Quill and Cross in the Borderlands. Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue 1628 to the Present. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. 457 pp. Latin American Literature Today. Issue 8 (Spring, 2019)
Marín Cepeda, Patricia (ed) En la concha de Venus amarrado. Erotismo y literatura en el Siglo de Oro. Madrid: Visor Libros, 2017. 271 pp. Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica. LXVII (2019), Num. 1, 233-239.
Fernández San Emeterio, Gerardo. Melchor Fernández de León: la sombra de un dramaturgo datos sobre su vida y obra. Madrid-Frankfurt: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2011. 275 pp. Dicenda. Cuadernos de Filología Hispánica 29 (2011): 344-45.
Díez Borque, José María, Esther Borrego Gutiérrez, y Catalina Buezo Canalejo, (eds.). Literatura, política y fiesta en el Madrid de los Siglos de Oro, Madrid: Visor Libros, 2009, 480 pp. Dicenda Cuadernos de Filología Hispánica 28 (2010): 342-44.
Education
Ph.D. in Early Modern Spanish Literature. University of California, Davis. 2018
M.A in Spanish Literature. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 2009
Licenciatura (B.A.) in Hispanich Philology. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 2008
Postgraduate Certificate in K-12 Education. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 2009
Teaching Schedule for FALL 2023:
SPAN 1115-009 Beginning Spanish, KH-132, M/T/W/R/F 11:30-12:20
SPAN 1115-011 Beginning Spanish, KH-319, M/T/W/R/F 13:30-14:20
SPAN 3723-001 Business Spanish, KH-140, M/W/F 12:30-13:20
SPAN 2113-29 Business Spanish, KH-136, M/W 17:00-18:20
