Katherine (Katie) Brown is a scholar and teacher of early modern Hispanic literatures and cultures and second language acquisition.  She received a B.A. in Hispanic Studies from the College of William & Mary and a Ph.D. in Spanish from Yale University, where she completed an interdisciplinary dissertation on the narrative functions of architecture in the novels of Miguel de Cervantes.  In addition to her research and publications on topics such as Cervantes, Borges, and 16th-century missionary theater in Mexico, Katie holds a Certificate in Second Language Acquisition and a Mini-Certificate in Distance Language Teaching from the Yale Center for Language Study.  Prior to joining the Albright faculty, she taught all levels of Spanish language, literature, and culture at Yale and the University of Illinois at Chicago.  Katie is currently at work on her first book, which expands upon her dissertation research, and she looks forward to bringing her interests in interdisciplinarity and multiliteracies to the Spanish classroom at Albright.

Early modern Hispanic literatures and cultures, Cervantes, colonial literature, second language acquisition

SPA 101: Elementary Spanish I

SPA 102: Elementary Spanish II

Building the Modern Text: Architecture, Literature, and Modernity in Cervantes (in progress)

“Miguel de Cervantes, Author of the Apocryphal Quijote: Borges, ‘Pierre Menard’, and Literary Creation as Apocrypha.  Romance Studies.  Forthcoming.

Co-authored with Jorge L. Terukina Yamauchi.  “Paradojas performativas: La adoración de los reyes como neixcuitilli o exemplum.” Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 54 (2017).

“Entre el puente y la horca: La ‘paradoja del mentiroso’ y la narración de la conciencia moderna en Don Quijote (II, 51).” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 94.7 (2017).

“En busca del ‘inefable nombre de Dios’: El Tetragrámaton, el lenguaje y la creación literaria en ‘La muerte y la brújula’.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 94.6 (2017).

“Invento del ‘quinto cuarto’: La conciencia dividida, la fragmentación textual y la paradoja de la lectura en ‘La ilustre fregona’.” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 36.2 (2016).

“La voz performativa y el voluntarismo en el Libro de buen amor.” eHumanista 28 (2014).

Member of American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC), Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Modern Language Association (MLA), Cervantes Society of America (CSA)