Domingo Ledezma
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies.
Coordinator Latin American Studies Program
Office: Meneely 214
Office Hours: Spring 2009: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:30-11:30AM and by appointment
Phone: (508) 286.3634
Fax: (508) 285.8263
Email: dledezma@wheatoncollege.edu
Degrees
Ph.D, Brown University
M.A., Brown University
'Licenciatura en Letras' (5-year degree)
Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
Main Interests
Colonial Latin American Literature and Culture
New World Historiography
Comparative approaches to Old World/New World Early Modern Literature
Neo-Latin texts related to the New World
Jesuit missions in the Americas.
Research Interests
I am working in a book project on narratives of navigation and shipwreck in the Caribbean during the colonial times. As my long-term project I continue my work of translation from Latin into Spanish of the Historia Naturæ, Maxime Peregrinæ (Antwerp 1635) by the Jesuit Juan Eusebio Nieremberg; and the philological work of annotation and encoding of Antonio de León Pinelo's rare book El Paraíso en el Nuevo Mundo (Madrid 1650).
Teaching Interests
In addition of teaching Spanish language courses in the Intermediate level, I am using Humanities computing (TEI XML) as a pedagogical tool to introduce advanced Spanish students to the study of Early Modern Spanish American texts. My students get some exposure to the technique of text encoding in TEI XML by being assigned the task of marking-up a selected text. The TEI XML encoding project help students become more knowledgeable regarding the primary text and the context in which it was written. The goals of using TEI in the classroom are: a) to improve students ability in reading and understanding primary sources; b) to initiate them in the experience of scholarly research in literary texts, and c) to provide them with the skills for using technology tools and Humanities computing resources.
Student Projects
In collaboration with my students of HISP-298, hyper-textual edition of Libro de los Infortunios y Naufragios (Book of the Misfortunes and Shipwrecks) (Seville, 1535) by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo. http://webedit.wheatonma.edu/custom/xslt/users/xs12057321/output/xx68380113/index.html
Selected Publications, Creative Work or Performances
Book
El Saber de los Jesuitas, Historias Naturales y el Nuevo Mundo. Frankfurt/Madrid: Veuvert / Iberoamericana, 2005. (co-editor)
Articles
"Historia natural y discurso idiosincrático del Nuevo Mundo: Los Problemas y secretos maravillosos de las Indias de Juan de Cardenas (1591)." Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies (forthcoming Fall 2009).
"Los Jesuitas y el conocimiento de la naturaleza americana." In El Saber de los Jesuitas, Historias Naturales y el Nuevo Mundo, edited by Millones, Luis and Domingo Ledezma, 9-24. Frankfurt/Madrid: Veuvert / Iberoamericana, 2005.
"Una legitimación imaginativa del Nuevo Mundo: La Historia Naturæ, Maxime Peregrinæ de Juan Eusebio Nieremberg." In El Saber de los Jesuitas, Historias Naturales y el Nuevo Mundo, edited by Millones, Luis and Domingo Ledezma, 53-83. Frankfurt/Madrid: Veuvert / Iberoamericana, 2005.
"El buen Ricote: 'que es dulce el amor de la patria'. Una imagen del exiliado histórico en la segunda parte de Don Quijote." In España: ¿Laberinto de exilios? edited by Barriales-Bouche, Sandra. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2005.
Book Review: Karl Kohut and Torales Pacheco, eds., Desde los confines de los Imperios Ibéricos. Los jesuitas de habla alemana en las misiones americanas, in Revista de Humanidades: Tecnológico de Monterrey #24 (Spring 2008): 223-232.
Book Review: Rebeca Barriga Villanueva, ed., Varia lingüística y literaria: 50 años del Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios del Colegio de México (CELL), in INTI. Revista de Literatura Hispánica 49-50 (1999): 397-408.
Recent Conferences
"Teaching Spanish American Colonial Literature in the Digital Era." At the 2008 Modern Language Association Convention. San Francisco, December 29, 2008.
"El corpus hispano y el portugués: Narrativa de naufragios e infortunios marítimos en las Indias Orientales y Occidentales." At the X Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Ciencia y Tecnología. Badajoz (Spain), Septiembre 11, 2008.
"Experiencing futility: Pedro Gobeo‚s Shipwreck and Peregrination in the coast of Peru." At the 2008 Renaissance Society of America Conference. Chicago, April 04, 2008.
"Los frutos de la vejez: Una lectura de Huerto desecho, de Lope de Vega." At The Eigth Biannual Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Universidad de Córdoba, Spain. October 17-20, 2007.
"Exploring New Worlds in Old Texts: Text Encoding Projects for the Undergraduate Study of Spanish American Colonial Literature." At the 2007 Digital Humanities Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, June 7, 2007.
"Unauthorized Passengers: Women in the Spanish Fleets". At the Renaissance Society of America 2007 Conference. Miami, March 22.
"Rescuing Spanish Shipwreck Narratives: The Adventures and Misfortunes of Pedro Gobeo de Victoria (Seville 1560-1630)" for the John Carter Brown Library Fellows. Providence, RI, May 10, 2006.
"De lo acaecido en las mares que hay desde España a estas Indias": La narrativa de naufragios en Fernández de Oviedo". At the Proyecto Trasatlántico de Brown University: III Congreso Internacional. Providence, RI, April 12-15, 2006.
"Que se os quite el deseo de navegar". El género de relatos de naufragios e infortunios en el Atlántico hispano. At the "III International Conference on the Trasatlantic Baroque: It is Baroque". The University of Western Ontario, Canada, March 30-31, 2006.
"Exploring New Worlds in Old Texts: Using the Text Encoding Initiative in the Undergraduate Classroom." For The Computing in the Humanities Users' Group and the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. March 21, 2006.
"Infortunios y naufragios en el caribe hispánico: el relato de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo." At the Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting. San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15, 2006
Analyzing Archival Material: A Window to Another Time and Place. At The 2005 New Media Consortium New England Regional Conference. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. October 6, 2005
"El Paraíso en el Nuevo Mundo de Antonio León Pinelo: tratado barroco e historia natural y peregrina de las Américas." At the II Internacional Conference on the Transatlantic Baroque: Is it Baroque? The University of Western Ontario, Canada, March 28-29, 2005.
"En torno al saber de los jesuitas: historias naturales y el Nuevo Mundo." At the Journée d'étude: Transfert de savoirs dans le monde colonial. Université de Montréal, Canada, April 18, 2005.
"La antigua disputa de platónicos y aristotélicos en Primero sueño de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz." The Sixth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Boston University, October 2003.
"Los esbozos de una identidad criolla en los Problemas y Secretos Maravillosos de las Indias, de Juan de Cárdenas." Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Dallas, Texas, March 2003.