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Claudia Mesa Higuera

Claudia Mesa

Professor of Spanish  

Cohen Chair in English and Literature (2021-2026)

Education

  • B.A., Boston University
  • M.A., Boston University
  • Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Contact

Email: mesac@moravian.edu
Phone: 610-861-1397
Office: Comenius Hall, Room 406

Teaching

  • SPAN 110: Spanish Language and Culture II (PTK: Global Connections) (TAG: Critical Reading)
  • SPAN 125: Spanish for Heritage Speakers (TAG: Intercultural and Linguistic Competencies)
  • SPAN 210: Introduction to Hispanic Literatures and Cultures: Islamic Spain to the Colonial Period (PTK: Creativity)
  • SPAN 241: Introduction to Literature of Spain and Latin America: Sound and Sight: Verbal and Visual Narratives of the Hispanic World (TAG: Writing)
  • SPAN 256: Reel Images: Spanish Cinema from Bu簽uel to Almod籀var 
  • SPAN 259: Crossing Borders: Mexican Film 
  • FORL 121: The Three Amigos: Mexican Film Makers Take Over Hollywood 
  • IDIS 192/IDIS 194: Humanities Fellowship Seminar: "Cinematic Encounters: Travel and Migration"
  • FORL 215: Immigration, Exile and Internal Displacement in Latin American and Latino Literature.

Areas of Research and/or Expertise

  • Spanish Emblem Literature, Iconography, and Visual Culture 
  • Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
  • Colonial Spanish-American Literature

Publications

1. Articles and Book Chapters

  • "Castillo Sol籀rzano, Rubens y el teatro pict籀rico en Victoria de Norlingen." Edad de Oro: Revista de Filolog穩a Hisp獺nica, XLV (2026). pp. 35-62. DOI: https://10.15366/edadoro2026.45.001  
  • "Migrating Signs in Habsburg Spain: Notes on Emblems and Globality." Muta poesis, pictura loquens: Interdisciplinary perspectives on emblem studies, volume II. Eds. Filipa Medeiros Ara繳jo, Manuel Ferro, Ingrid Hoepel and Jos矇 Julio Garc穩a Arranz. The University of Coimbra press. (Forthcoming in 2026)
  • "Felix Lope de Vega's The Pilgrim or the Stranger in his Own Country." In The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Ed. April London. Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming)
  • "La imaginaci籀n emblem獺tica: Italo Calvino y sus Seis propuestas para el pr籀ximo milenio (1985)," Ignoranti Quem Portum Petat, Nullus Suus Ventus Est: novos caminhos e desafios dos estudos ic籀nico-textuais / nuevos caminos y desafios en los estudios ic籀nico-textuales. Coords. Ana Cristina Sousa, Jos矇 Julio Garc穩a Arranz, Carme L籀pez Calder籀n and Marisa Pereira Santos. Porto: CITCEM - Centro de Investigac瓊o Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaco e Mem籀ria, 2023 pp. 457-471.  
  • Para-emblematic Strategies in the Colonial World: Aldabas in the Historic Center of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.&紳莉莽梯;Emblematica: Essays in Word and Image 5 (2023): 141-182.  
  • Ecfrasis en la Ortografia castellana (1609) de Mateo Aleman. In En la senda de Alciato. Pr獺ctica y teor穩a emblem獺tica. Eds. A. Mart穩nez Sobrino. J. Bartolom矇 G籀mez, C. Garc穩a Rom獺n, and F. Redondo S獺nchez. Universitat de Valencia, Servei de Publicacions, 2022. 329-340.
  • Mesa Higuera, Claudia, and Khristina H. Haddad. Seeing What Is Said: Teaching Niccol簷 Machiavelli's The Prince Through Its Images. PS: Political Science & Politics, vol. 54, no. 3, 2021, pp. 575-585., doi:10.1017/S104909652000205X. 70. 
  • Figuras impertinentes: Rodrigo Calder籀n y el Libro de entretenimiento de la p穩cara Justina&紳莉莽梯;(1604).&紳莉莽梯;Janus: Estudios sobre el Siglo de Oro 10 (2021): 202-236. . 
  • Ecos dial籀gicos: El pr穩ncipe de Maquiavelo en las Empresas pol穩ticas de Saavedra Fajardo.&紳莉莽梯;In El Sol de Occidente. Sociedad, textos, im獺genes simb籀licas e interculturalidad. Eds. Carme L籀pez Calder籀n and Juan Manuel Monterroso Montero. Santiago de Compostela: Andavira Editora y Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2020. 49- 70. 
  • Depicting Japan: Lope de Vega and Los primeros m獺rtires del Jap籀n. In Faraway Settings: Spanish and Chinese Theaters of the 16th and the 17th Century. Eds. Juan Pablo Gil-Osle and Frederick de Armas. Madrid: Universidad de Navarra-Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2019. 225-248. 
  • In Search of Elizabeth I: Visual Representations of the Virgin Queen in Early Modern Spanish Sources. In The Image of Elizabeth I Tudor in Early Modern Spain. Eds. Eduardo Olid Guerrero and Esther Fern獺ndez. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. 179-226. 
  • Mateo Alem獺n y la cultura emblem獺tica de Sevilla a la Nueva Espa簽a: El caso de la Ortograf穩a castellana (1609). eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies 42 (2019): 271-289. 
  • Emblem獺tica, mnemotecnia y el arte de narrar en El peregrino en su patria de Lope de Vega. Imago. Revista de emblem獺tica y cultura visual 7 (2015): 87-96. 
  • La cartograf穩a barroca de Octavio Paz en Himno entre ruinas: Profanaci籀n y homenaje del Polifemo. In The Willow and the Spiral: Essays on Octavio Paz and the Poetic Imagination. Ed. Roberto Cant繳. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 244-261.
  • La mirada de los emblemas: Presencia y ausencia en los jerogl穩ficos del Llanto de Occidente (1666).&紳莉莽梯;Palabras, S穩mbolos, Emblemas. Las estructuras gr獺ficas de la representaci籀n. Eds. Ana Mart穩nez Pereira, Inmaculada Osuna and V穩ctor Infantes. Madrid: Turp穩n Editores, Sociedad Espa簽ola de Emblem獺tica, 2013. 365-374.
  • Emblematic Imagery, Free Will and Grace in Mateo Alem獺ns Guzm獺n de Alfarache.&紳莉莽梯;Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Emblem Studies 18 (2010): 207-238.
  • Persuasi籀n y desencanto en Muriendo por la dulce patria m穩a de Roberto Castillo Sandoval.&紳莉莽梯;Mester XXIX (2000): 61-71.

2. Performance Review 

  • "Fuente Ovejuna (1612), by Lope de Vega." Translated by Adrian Mitchell. Directed by Flordelino Lagundino. Theatre for a New Audience, Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Brooklyn, NY. April 30-May28, 2023. Comedia Performance: Journal of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater 21 (2024): 362-371. 

3. Book Reviews

  • Emblematica Online. Website. Mara Wade, PI. Early Modern Digital Review, vol. 5, no. 2, (2022): 224-230.  
  • Cervantes frente a la cultura simb籀lica de su tiempo. El testimonio de las Novelas ejemplares by Julia D'Onofrio. Emblematica: Essays in Word and Image 4 (2020): 445-460.  
  • Creaci籀n, funci籀n y recepci籀n de la emblem獺tica by Her籀n P矇rez Mart穩nez and B獺rbara Skinfill Nogal (eds.). Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Emblem Studies 21 (2014): 407-417.
  • In Nocte Consilium. Studies in Emblematics in Honor of Pedro F. Campa by John T. Cull and Peter M. Daly (eds.). Renaissance Quarterly 65.3 Fall (2012): 974-976.
  • The Persistence of Presence: Emblem & Ritual in Baroque Spain by Bradley J. Nelson. Renaissance Quarterly 64.1 Spring (2011): 244-246.
  • A Sonnet from Carthage. Garcilaso de la Vega and the New Poetry of the Sixteenth- Century Europe by Richard Helgerson. Comitatus 39 (2008): 275-78.
  • Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain by Fernando Bouza. Comitatus 36 (2005): 196-199. 

4. Original Impresa

  • In Liber Amicourum: Emblems and Studies. Ed. Pedro Germano Leal. Society for Emblem Studies: Open Access, 2022. 48-51.