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CARMEN Y. HSU, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages,
was educated at Harvard University, receiving the degrees of A.M. and
Ph.D. (Romance Languages & Literatures).
Prior to coming to the UNC-Chapel Hill in 2005, she taught at the Universität
Bielefeld, Germany (2001-2005). She specializes in the literature, historiography,
and intellectual history of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spain and
East Asia, as well as the broader Pacific world.
In relation to early modern Spain, her publications and teaching address
a broad range of topics, including Humanism, the literature of the courtesan,
books of chivalry, theater, medieval historiography, social, religious
and moral treaties, conduct literature, La tía fingida, the works of Miguel de
Cervantes (especially Novelas ejemplares and Entremeses), Juan Luis Vives, Cristóbal
de Herrera, Pedro de Valencia, Francisco de Vitoria, and comparative studies
on the go-between theme in the Celestina and early modern Chinese literature,
as well as the representation of the courtesan in Veronica Franco and La
Dorotea by Lope.
With reference to Asia, she focuses on early encounters, with publications
and courses on the military and spiritual conquest of the Philippines,
imaginary of East Asia as the Other, travel literature, debate of the guerra
justa, the
theology of discovery, chronicles as well as the relaciones de sucesos (news pamphlets) of Asia, debate on the China Mission, and missionary culture.
Her
research has addressed the writings of Bernardino de Ávila Girón,
Juan González de Mendoza, Bernardino de Escalante, Martín Ignacio
de Loyola, Miguel de Loarca, Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola, Fr. Domingo
de Salazar, Gaspar de San Agustín, and Antonio de Morga, as well as
points of contact between the missionaries in East Asia and those in New Spain.
She is currently preparing a monograph titled Spanish Chronicles of Early
Modern Asia and editing Cervantes y su mundo VII, which will be published
by the Edition Reichenberger (Kassel, Germany). Some of her most recent publications
include a book, Courtesans in the Literature of Spanish Golden Age (Kassel:
Reichenberger, 2002), and articles on «Los chinos de Manila a través
de las relaciones de sucesos del siglo XVII», «'Del mar movible
la inmovible roca': "El rufián viudo" y la poesía germanesca», «La
imagen humanística del gran reino chino de Juan González de Mendoza», «Planteamiento
del tema celestinesco chino y Jin Ping Mei», «La representación
japonesa de Ávila Girón», «Estefanía de Caicedo
y sus fuentes literarias», «'La fuerza de la hermosura': The Courtesan
Character in La tía fingida», and «Dos cartas de Felipe II
al emperador de China».
She serves on the editorial board of the Edition Reichenberger.
Her research has been supported by Council for Cultural Affairs (Taiwan),
University Research Council Grant (UNC-Chapel Hill), Junior Faculty Development
Award of the UNC-Chapel Hill, Ministry of Culture (Spain), Fundación
Duques de Soria (Spain), and the Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft
of the Universität Bielefeld (Germany).
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