Emily Susanne Beck
Emily S. Beck, Ph.D.
Hispanic Studies
College of Charleston
135 JC Long, Charleston, SC 29424 • (843) 953-5412
Employment
College of Charleston, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, August 2014 – present
Affiliate Faculty in the Women and Gender Studies Program, October 2013-present
Affiliate Faculty in the Comparative LiteratureProgram, August 2015-present
College of Charleston, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, August 2008 –August 2014
Columbia University, Teaching Fellow and Preceptor, September 2002 - May 2008
Education
Columbia University, Ph.D. in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture,May 2008
Dissertation:“Waging War with Words: Idealized Gender and Iberian Chivalry”
Advisor: Professor Patricia E. Grieve
Committee: Professors Gonzalo Sobejano, Teodolinda Barolini, Susan Crane, and Alessandra Russo
Columbia University, Ph.D. Certificate in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, May 2008
This graduate certificate had requirements similar to those of a second MA degree, including 18 credit hours of additional coursework and a thesis approved by two extra-departmental faculty readers.
Columbia University, M.A. in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture,May 2002
University of California, Los Angeles, B.A. in Comparative Literature, Minor in Spanish Literature, June 2001
Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, UCLA College Honors Program, Comparative Literature Departmental Honors Program
Academic Honors and Fellowships
Nominated for the College of Charleston College-Wide Teaching Award, April 2016
College of Charleston Academic Year Sabbatical Research Fellowship, August 2014-August 2015
Granted Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, College of Charleston, effective August 15, 2014
Dean’s Recognition Award for Excellence in Teaching, School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs, May 10, 2013
National Op-Ed Project Program Workshop Nominee and Participant, November 16, 2011
College of Charleston, Faculty Research and Development Grant, Summer 2011
Sigma Delta Pi, National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, Honorary Member, Initiated October 25, 2010
College of Charleston, School of Languages, Cultures and World Affairs Faculty Research and Development Grant, Summer 2010
College of Charleston, Global Scholar Certification, September 2009
College of Charleston, Research and Development Faculty Starter Grant, Summer 2009
College of Charleston, School of Languages, Cultures and World Affairs Faculty Research and Development Grant, Summer 2009
Phi Beta Kappa Society, University of California, Los Angeles, Inducted and continuing membership since June 2001
Teaching Experience
Associate Professor, Hispanic Studies Department,College of Charleston
Graduate
Spanish 600 – M.Ed. Graduate Seminar on Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies (Spring 2017)
Undergraduate
Spanish 493 –Seminar in Spanish Literature: Don Quijote de La Mancha (Spring 2016)
Spanish 367 – Convivencia and Multiculturalism in Early ModernSpain (Spring 2017)
Spanish 367 – Power and Gender in Early Modern Spain (Fall 2016)
Spanish 320 – Introduction to Hispanic Literature(Fall 2015)
Spanish 202 – Intermediate Spanish II (Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016)
FYSS 101/SPAN 202– Global Perspectives: ¡Barcelona! (Fall 2016)
LTSP 250 – Literature in Translation-Spanish: The Spain of Cervantes (Fall 2015)
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies Department,College of Charleston
Spanish 473 – Senior Seminar: The Spanish Golden Age (Fall 2012)
Spanish453 – SeniorSeminar: Don Quijote de La Mancha (Fall 2010)
Spanish 361 – Survey of Medieval and Golden Age Literature (Spring 2009, 2009-2012)
Spanish 333 – Special Topics in Civilization and Culture (Spring 2014)
Spanish 322 – Civilization and Culture of Spain I (Spring 2011, 2011-2012)
Spanish 320 – Introduction to Hispanic Literature (2009-2010,Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Fall 2013)
Spanish 314 – Spanish Conversation(Spring 2013, Spring 2014)
Spanish 313 – Spanish Composition (Fall 2008)
Spanish 275 – Advanced Spanish Skills Review (2008-2012, Fall 2013)
Spanish 202– Intermediate Spanish II (Spring 2012, Summer 2012)
Spanish 200– Elementary Spanish II (Summer 2014)
Preceptor, Committee on the Core Curriculum,Columbia University
Humanities C1001-2 - Masterpieces of Western Literature(2005-2006, 2007-2008)
Columbia University’s year-long “great books” seminar includingworks and authors such as Homer,Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Thucydides, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, The Bible, Virgil, Saint Augustine, Dante, Marie de France, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Austen, Dostoevsky,Woolf, and Borges.
Teaching Fellow, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University
Undergraduate
Spanish 1202 - Intermediate II (Summer 2003, Spring 2004, Summer 2005)
Spanish 1201 - Intermediate I(Fall 2003, Summer 2007)
Spanish 1102 - Elementary II(Spring 2003, Summer 2004, Fall 2004)
Spanish 1101 - Elementary I(Fall 2002)
Graduate
Spanish 1113 - Reading and Translation for Graduate Students (Spring 2005)
Course Coordinator, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University
Spanish 1102 - Elementary II(Fall 2004)
Supervised all instructors of the course, led meetings, organized course content and supplementary material such as films and readings; coordinated the creation of the department exams.
Technology and New Media Coordinator, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Teaching Center of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Language Resource Center, Columbia University, Spring 2005
A paid fellowship to assist with the implementation of technology and new media in the foreign language classroom, update and maintain departmental pedagogical website, facilitate online components of courses for all instructors of the department, lead meetings, organize online course content and supplementary material such as films, songs, and readings; coordinated with fellows from other disciplines in workshops and symposiums for use of technology and new media in the foreign language classroom.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
“Contemplating the Noble Ethos: Implications for Jewish Converts in the Writings of Alfonso de Cartagena,” in Revisiting Convivencia in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Ed. Connie L. Scarborough. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2014: 355-372.
“El espejo del estadista traicionero: Reexaminación de Vida de Marco Bruto de Quevedo,” Hispania 97.3 (2014): 441-451.
“Historiographical Approaches to Iberian Multiculturalism and Castilian Imperialism during the Siglo de Oro,” eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies 24 (2013): 479-490.
“Debating Arms and Letters: Curial e Güelfa and Noble Ambitions in the Fifteenth Century,” La corónica 40.1 (2011): 63-85.
“‘Porque oyéndolas les crescian los corazones’: Chivalry and the Power of Stories in Alfonso X and Ramon Llull,” Bulletin of Spanish Studies,88.2 (2011): 159-176.
Book Reviews
Review Article: “La imagen de Fernando el Católico en la Historia, la Literatura y el Arte. Eds. Aurora Egido y José Enrique Laplana.” Review for Bulletin of Spanish Studies. Accepted July 2015 and forthcoming.
Review Article: “Three Spanish ‘Querelle’ Texts: ‘Grisel y Mirabella,’ ‘The Slander against Women,’ and ‘The Defense of Ladies against Slanderers.’ Pere Torrellas and Juan de Flores. A Bilingual Edition and Study. Ed. and trans. Emily C. Francomano.” Review for Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9.1 (2014): 182-184.
Review Article: “Juan de Flores’ ‘Grisel y Mirabella,’ Edizione critica, introduzione e note di Maria Grazia Ciccarello Di Blasi.” Review for La corónica 40.2 (2012): 319-323.
Review Article: “Women’s Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World. Eds. Anne J. Cruz and Rosilie Hernández” published by Ashgate: 2011. Review for Renaissance Quarterly 65.2 (2012): 578-580.
Conference Presentations:
“Projecting Isabel: Pedagogical Approaches for Cinematic Adaptations,” Organizing Panel: “Reproducing Early Modern Women for the 21st Century.” GEMELA (Grupo de Estudios de la Mujer Espanola y Latinoamericana) Panel at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA). Chicago, April, 2017. Presenter and Panel Chair.
“Isabel in South Carolina:Rethinking Pedagogical Approaches to the Hispanic Middle Ages,” Inaugural Group Meeting of the South Carolina Medievalists Group, Clemson, SC. September 24, 2016. Presenter and Conference Co-Organizer.
“A New Isabel for the Twenty-First Century,”Organizing Panel: “Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender and Sex in Medieval Film and Television.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 13, 2016.
“Reconstructing the Queen: Imagining Isabel la Católica in the RTVE series Isabel,” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC), October 16, 2015.
“Courtesy and Diplomacy across the Mediterranean: The Case of El Gran Capitán,” Organizing Panel: “In the Penumbra of the Peninsula: Projections of Iberian Power and Culture across the Medieval Mediterranean,” organized by the North American Catalan Society and the Iberian-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA). International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 15, 2015.
“The Hermeneutics of Iberian Identity: Reassessing the Theatrical Works of Juan de Encina,” Panel on The Problem of the “Best-Seller” in Pre-Modern Spain, organized by the Institute for Medieval Studies of the University of New Mexico. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 8, 2014.
“Legacies and Transformations of Boccaccio’s Debate about Women in late Fifteenth-century Iberia,” Panel on Fifteenth-Century Studies: Iberia, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 10, 2013.
“Bernardo José de Aldrete and the Reshaping of a New Castilian World Order in the 17th Century,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference hosted by the University of Kentucky, April 21, 2012.
“Chivalry, Conversos, and the Noble Ethos in Alfonso de Cartagena,” Conference on Convivencia in Early Modern Spain hosted by the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech University, September 11, 2010.
“Reassessing Iberian Chivalry in Curial e Güelfa,” Presentation for the Division on Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures panel on “Queer Iberia at Ten”, Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Philadelphia, December 30, 2009.
“Performing Iberian Nobility in Alfonso de Palencia: Military Triumph and Public Spectacle,” Presentation for the Division on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose panel on “Nobility and Its Discontents”, Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Philadelphia, December 28, 2009.
Professional Service
Service to the Profession
Co-founder ofSouth Carolina Medievalists, with Caroline Dunn, Associate Professor of History, Clemson University, a professional group of scholars throughout South Carolina whose research and pedagogical
interests engage the medieval and premodern eras (May 2016 to present)
Manuscript and Book Reviewer for Bulletin of Spanish Studies (2010 to present)
Book Reviewer for Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal(2013 to present)
Book Reviewer for Renaissance Quarterly (2011 to present)
Book Reviewer for La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Spanish Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies (2010 to present)
Lowcountry Phi Beta Kappa Association Member (September 2011 to present)
Lowcountry Medievalists Group Member (2014 to present)
Reader for the Advanced Placement Spanish Literature Exam, Educational Testing Service, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 2-June 8, 2011 and June 2-June 8, 2012. (I was also invited in 2014 and 2015 but declined the invitations due to conflicts with other professional obligations)
Academic Mentor for Senior Thesis Project at the Academic Magnet High School (North Charleston, SC). Student Senior Thesis Project by Jami Bunton, “Using the Spanish Romancero in the High School Level Foreign Language Classroom to Teach Spanish Culture,”(February 2012–December2012)
Service to the College of Charleston(* indicates current service position)
*Faculty Academic Advisor for majors and minors, Hispanic Studies Department, College of Charleston(2008- present)
*Faculty Advisor of the Global Scholars Program of the College of Charleston (2009-present)
*General Education Representative for the Hispanic Studies Department, College of Charleston (2013-present)
*Faculty Reader for the General Education Assessment Reading Groups (ARGs), Language and Humanities,
College of Charleston (2013-present)
*Committee Chair, Search Committee for Faculty Search: Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Hispanic Studies Department, College of Charleston (2016-2017)
*Committee Chair, Faculty Welfare Committee Member, College of Charleston (2016-2017)
*Hispanic Studies Library Liaison, College of Charleston (2016-2017)
*Member of the Department of Hispanic Studies Awards Committee, College of Charleston (2016-2017; also
served 2012-2014)
*Safe Zone Ally, Office of Multicultural Student Programs and Services, College of Charleston (2012-present)
*College Colloquium Discussion Group Leader:
-Articles selected regarding “Helicopter Parenting,” “Trigger Warnings,” and helping college students develop independence and self-sufficiency (April 11, 2016)
-The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (January 28, 2016)
-How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Traps and Prepare Your Kids for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims (November 17, 2015)
Committee Chair, Ad-hoc committee to assess the possibility and implementation of a Study Abroad Requirement for Hispanic Studies Majors, College of Charleston (2015-2016)
Committee Member, Ad-hoc committee to reassess SPAN 275, College of Charleston (2015-2016)
Member of the College Reads! Committee, College of Charleston (2013-2014)
Member of the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC) Abstract Selection Committee – Peninsular Literature and Culture (2015)
Member of the Faculty Research and Development Committee, College of Charleston (2013-2014)
Member of the Textbook Selection Committee for the Department of Hispanic Studies, College of Charleston (2013-2014)
Educational Technology Committee Member and Webmaster, College of Charleston (2012-2013)
Culinary Lesson and Dinner with Faculty at theCasa Hispana. Organized and coordinated event with Dr. Carla Breidenbach to teach students living at the house how to prepare several famous Spanish tapas followed by a dinner together to practice Spanish and meet with the students. Menú: Gazpacho, Champiñones al ajillo, Tortilla española, Albóndigas en salsa de tomate, Ensalada mixta. Casa Hispana, College of Charleston (October22, 2012)
Faculty Guest Lecturer, SPAN 605 “The Spanish Golden Age.”Invited Lecture: “Pedagogical Approaches to Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Tradition,” September 18, 2012
Sigma Delta Pi National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society Advisor and Committee Member, Hispanic
Studies Department, College of Charleston (2010-2012)
Ad-hoc Committee Member to evaluate and assess curricular guidelines and goals of the Civilization and Culture Courses of the Department of Hispanic Studies (SPAN 322, 323, 326, 327), College of Charleston (2012)
Safe Zone Training Workshop Participant, Office of Multicultural Student Programs and Services, College of Charleston (February 15, 2012)
Search Committee Member for Faculty Search: Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Hispanic Studies
Department, College of Charleston (2011-2012)
Member of the Policies and Procedures Committee for the Hispanic Studies Department, College of Charleston, revising department by-laws, guidelines for tenure and promotion, and curricular objectives (August, 2010- December, 2011)
Faculty Supervisor and Advisor for a student publication inChrestomathy, The Annual Review of Research, vol. 11, “Cervantes, el manipulador más fiable” by Caitlin Gilmore (2010-2011)
Search Committee Member for three Faculty Searches: Assistant Professor of Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature and Culture, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Coordinator of the Basic Language Program, and Instructor of Spanish Language, College of Charleston (2010-2011)
Committee Member of the School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs International Film Festival,College of Charleston (Fall 2010)
Search Committee Member for Assistant Professor of Spanish Cultural Studies, College of Charleston
(2009-2010)
College of Charleston Library Committee Member (2009-2010)
Spanish Club Advisor, College of Charleston (2008-2010)
Tertulia Coordinator, Department of Hispanic Studies, College of Charleston (2008-10)
Planning Committee Member for the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) Conference on Women in the Ibero-American Atlantic 1500-1700, College of Charleston (June 2009-February 2010)
Planning Committee Member for the World Cultures Fair, School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs, College of Charleston (2009 and 2010)
Professional Associations
Modern Language Association (MLA)
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas, pre-1800 (GEMELA)
Phi Beta Kappa National Collegiate Honor Society
Sigma Delta Pi National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society
South Carolina Medievalists (co-founder)
Lowcountry Medievalists
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