| Department of Romance
Languages and Literatures The University of Florida Post Office Box 117405 Gainesville, Florida 32611-7405 |
Office telephone: (3x2) 3x2-2x18
ext. 242 Office FAX: (3x2) 3x2 5x79 Email Address: saxrmxon@rxll.ufl.edu |
| Ph.D. | Hispanic Studies The Johns Hopkins University | 1993 |
| M.A. | Hispanic Studies The Johns Hopkins University | 1985 |
| M.A. | Comparative Literature The University of Chicago | 1981 |
| B.A. | Comparative Literature Hobart & Wm. Smith Colleges | 1978 |
| The University of Florida | 1995-present | Associate Professor Date Tenured: June 2001 |
| Florida International University / Universidad Pontifícia (Salamanca, Spain) | Summer 1997 | Vis. Asst. Prof. |
| Cornell University | 1993-1994 | Vis. Asst. Prof. |
| Suffolk University | Spring 1993 | Vis. Asst. Prof. Humanities |
| Brandeis University | 1989-1992 | Lecturer in Spanish |
History of courtesy in Spain
Baltasar Gracián
Women novelists of early modern Spain
History/historiography of Spanish prose fiction
Comedia
Mise-en-scène as an approach to teaching comedia
Cervantes, narrative technique, Don Quijote, Novelas ejemplares
Poetic intercalation
History and theory of early modern money and coinage
Comparative approaches to XVII century French and Spanish literature and culture
Ethnographic approaches to Spanish culture
The limits of Américo Castro’s convivencia
theory
“La secularización de la ejemplaridad en la primera modernidad española”
“Voces recuperadas: Literatura medieval desde los márgenes”
Golden Age Prose
Cervantes
Medieval Spanish Literatures
Golden Age Drama
Golden Age Poetry
Medieval Spanish Literatures
Golden Age Drama
Don Quixote
Golden Age Prose
Introduction to Spanish Literatures I (to 1700)
Introduction to Spanish Literatures II (1700-present)
Culture and Civilization of Spain
Culture and Current Events of Spain
Women in Early Modern Seville
“Women, Gods and Goddesses: Women in World Religions”
“Dynasty: Family Romance in Classical Texts”
All levels of first through third year grammar, conversation, composition
Coordinator of second semester Spanish
“Spanish for Community Action”
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.
“The Paper Key: Money as Text in Miguel de Cervantes’s “El celoso extremeño” and José de Camerino’s “El pícaro amante.” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. Vol. 18 (1998): 96-123.
“The Romance of Courtesy: Mariana de Caravajal’s Navidades de Madrid.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 19.2 (Winter 1995): 241-261.
“Ungilding Spain’s Golden Age.” Tainted Greatness.
Ed. Nancy Harrowitz. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1994. 75-90.
Rev. of Refiguring Authority: Reading, Writing and Rewriting in Cervantes by E. Michael Gerli. South Atlantic Review 61.4 (Fall 1996): 115, 116.
Rev. of The Tradition of the Novela in Spain by Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano. Modern Language Notes 109.2 (Spring 1994): 311-313.
The Aging of the Courtier: A History of Courtesy
Literature in Early Modern Spain. Prospectus favorably reviewed by
the Apple-Zimmerman Series on Early Modern Studies of the Susquehanna
University Press.
| Entre Nous Romance Literature Colloquium Gainesville, FL |
Notes toward a History of Courtesy in Spain | November 2003 |
| Mid-America Conference on Hispanic
Literatures Boulder, Colorado |
Ideals of Courtliness in Salas Barbadillo’s El caballero perfecto | October 2003 |
| Modern Language Association New York, NY |
"Por la puerta de honores: A History of Courtesy from Boscán to Gracián" | December 2002 |
| 3rd Annual Conference of Hispanic
Poetry University of Pécs, Hungary |
“Wit’s End: Communities of Wit and Taste in Early Modern Spain” | May 2002 |
| Modern Language Association New York, NY |
“Money: The Phantom Lady of C. de la Barca’s La dama duende” | December 2001 |
| Sarasota Institute for Life-long
Learning Sarasota, FL (Public slide lecture) |
“Unreliable Cervantes” | February 2001 |
| Preliminary Grants Evaluator: U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, FL |
March 2003 |
| Reader, Educational Testing Service Advanced Placement Reader in Spanish |
1995-present |
| UF/ISA Summer in Seville Program Coordinator | 2003-present 2000-2001 |
| UF/FIU Summer Program in Salamanca Co-director | Summer 1997 |
English: native language
Spanish near-native proficiency
French: reading fluency, intermediate speaking competence
Hebrew intermediate speaker, basic reading ability,
Italian: intermediate reading competence
Latin: elementary reading ability