Carmen Hsu
Associate Professor of Spanish
Director of Graduate Studies
Graduate French Language Advisor
carmen.hsu@unc.edu | Dey 228
At UNC since 2005
Education
Harvard University, 2000
Other Appointments
Affiliate Faculty, Asian Studies
Affiliate Faculty, International and Area Studies
Bio
Carmen Hsu teaches 16th-and 17th-century Spanish literature. Prior to coming to UNC-Chapel Hill in 2005, she taught at the Universität Bielefeld, Germany. He research interests are primarily in the areas of theater, Cervantes, prose, “relaciones de sucesos” (news pamphlets), and Iberian-Asian relations. She is particularly interested in the representations of gender and space, the construction of national/cultural identity, and transoceanic expansions and exchanges between early modern Catholic Iberia and non-Christian worlds.
Publications
Books and edited volumes
- Courtesans in the Literature of the Spanish Golden Age. Kassel: Reichenberger, 2002.
- Asia in the Making of Early Modern Spain (forthcoming).
- Cervantes y su tiempo, ed. Kassel: Reichenberger, 2010.
Peer reviewed articles and book chapters
- “Del norte de Europa al sur de Asia Oriental: Las batallas hispano-holandesas en Playa Honda durante la Tregua de Doce Años (1609-21).” Eds. Luc Torres, Hélène Tropé, and Javier Espejo. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2021.
- “Shipwreck, Exile, and Political Critique in the Comedia de Fernán Méndez Pinto en China (1631) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez.” Shipwreck in Early Modern Hispanic Literature and Culture. Eds. Elena Rodríguez-Guridi and Carrie Ruiz (forthcoming in Bucknell University Press in 2020/2021).
- “Martyrdom, Conversion and Monarchy in Los primeros mártires del Japón.” Zwischen Ereignis und Erzählung. Konversion als Medium der Selbstbeschreibung in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Eds. Werner Röcke, Julia Weitbrecht, and Ruth von Bernuth. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2016. 217-34.
- “Amor y matrimonio según El laberinto de amor de Cervantes.” eHumanista/Cervantes 1 (2012): 537-51.
- “Sobre la figura de Trampagos en El rufián viudo de Cervantes.” Anales Cervantinos 44 (2012): 185-204.
- “La imagen humanística del gran reino chino de Juan González de Mendoza.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 8 (2010): 187-201.
- “De un personaje cervantino: La Pericona y algunos aspectos de la poesía germanesca en “El rufián viudo llamado Trampagos’.” Cervantes y su tiempo. Ed. Carmen Hsu. Kassel: Reichenberger, 2010. 105-24.
- “Writing on behalf of a Christian Empire: Gifts, Dissimulation, and Politics in the Letters of Philip II of Spain to Wanli of China.” Hispanic Review 78 (2010): 323-44.
- “Planteamiento del tema celestinesco chino y Jin Ping Mei.” Celestinesca 34 (2010): 43-55.
- “Acerca de la representación del archipiélago filipino en los Sucesos de Antonio de Morga.” Hispanófila 157 (2009): 117-32.
- “Los chinos de Manila a través de las relaciones de sucesos del siglo XVII.” Representaciones de la alteridad, ideológica, religiosa, humana y espacial en las relaciones de sucesos (siglos XVI-XVIII). Ed. Patrick Bégrand. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2009. 303-15.
- “El Japón de Ávila Girón.” Las dos orillas. Actas del XV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. Vol. II. México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007. 227-43.
- “‘La fuerza de la hermosura:’ The Courtesan Character in La tía fingida.” Cervantes y su mundo III. Ed. A. Robert Lauer & Kurt Reichenberger. Kassel: Reichenberger, 2005. 223-40.
- “Dos cartas de Felipe II al emperador de China.” eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies 4 (2004): 194-2093.
Awards & Honors
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Newberry Library, Chicago, 2018-19.
- Edward Clarence Evelyn Dyason Research Fellowship for project “The Images of Terra Australis Incognita as Represented in Early Modern Spain and England,” University of Melbourne, Australia, 2015.
- Burress Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill, spring 2013.
- Semester Leave Fellowship, Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, fall 2012.
- Graduate Student Faculty Mentoring Award, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2012-13.
- Research Fellowship for project “Spain and Formosa in the Age of Maritime Rediscovery,” Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan, 2006-07
Courses Regularly Taught
Undergraduate:
- SPAN371 — Conflict and Literature in Early Modern Spain
- ROML 71/ASIA 71 — Asia in Iberian Converso Literature, 1500s-1650s
Graduate:
- The Spanish Comedia of the Golden Age
- Cervantes and Don Quixote
Recently Directed Dissertations
M.A. Theses Directed:
- Elena Peña-Argüeso, “Catarismo, redenciones y milagros en La vida de San Pedro Nolasco,” Romance Studies, 2019.
- Ellynn Loftus, “‘Las que en mí fueron espinas, se vuelven rosas en ti’: The Representación of Female Sainthood in Lope de Vega’s Famosa comedia de la bienaventurada madre Santa Teresa de Jesús,” Romance Studies, 2018.
- Collen Marie McAlister, “La violencia en Don Quijote: una investigación sobre las causas, los contextos, y las justificaciones,” Romance Studies, 2016.
Ph.D. Dissertations Directed:
- Elena Casey, “Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Theater of Melancholy,” Romance Studies, 2019.
- Sarah Apffel. “Monstrosity and Identity in the Comedias of Lope de Vega,” Romance Languages, 2015.
Professor Hsu‘s current and previous advisees
Professor Hsu is currently accepting new advisees.