Katherine L. Brown, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Spanish
kbrown@albright.edu
Masters Hall, Room 301
B.A., Hispanic Studies, College of William & Mary
Ph.D., Spanish, Yale University
Biography
Areas of Expertise
Early modern Hispanic literatures and cultures, Cervantes, colonial Latin America literature, visual and material culture, second language acquisition
Courses Taught
Scholarship
Novel Foundations: Architecture and Literary Modernity in Cervantes (in progress)
“‘Los aposentos de la cabeza’: Architecture and Madness in the Quijote“. Modern Language Notes Hispanic Issue 137.2 (2022).
“Miguel de Cervantes, Author of the Apocryphal Quijote: Borges, ‘Pierre Menard’, and Literary Creation as Apocrypha. Romance Studies 39.2-3 (2021).
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).
Professional Activities
Member of Modern Language Association (MLA), Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Cervantes Society of America (CSA), American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)