Dr. Shifra Armon Associate Professor

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Sigma Delta Pi National Office

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241 Dauer Hall
Post Office Box 117405
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7405
Phone: 392 2018 x 242
FAX (352) 392 5679
Email Address:  sarmon@ufl.edu

 

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Current research interests:

  • Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
  • History of courtesy
  • Baltasar Gracián
  • Women novelists
  • Spanish historiography
  • Comedia
  • Mise-en-scčne as an approach to teaching comedia
  • Cervantes
  • History and theory of money and coinage
  • Comparative approaches to seventeenth-century studies

Recent Publications:

  • Picking Wedlock: Women and the Courtship Novel in Early Modern Spain. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.
  • "Women and the novela de cortejo". Zayas and Her Sisters Vol. 2. Judith Whiteack and Gwyn Campbell, eds. Global Publications, Binghamton, NY, 2001.
  • "Rhyme and Reason: Verse Interpolation in Golden Age Prose Fiction." Caliope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Summer 2001.
  • "Juan Pérez de Montalbán's 'Not-So-Terrible Mothers'." Romance Languages Annual 11 (1999): 412-416. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue Research Foundation, 2000.

Courses Taught:

  • Graduate Courses: Cervantes; The Secularization of Exemplarity; Early Modern Prose Fiction; Medieval Literature from the Margins; Golden Age Poetry, Critical Approaches to Golden Age Drama
  • Undergraduate Courses: Medieval Spanish Literatures; Comedia; Don Quijote; Golden Age Prose, Introduction to Spanish Literature I, II; Culture and Civilization of Spain; Women in Golden Age Seville; Advanced Composition, Advanced Conversation.