Beth Boyd

Future Faculty Teaching Fellow (FFTF)
World Languages & Cultures Department
Whitewater Hall, Room 227
bethboyd@indiana.edu

Education

• ABD, Hispanic Literatures and Cultural Studies. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University Bloomington.
• Dissertation: “From Colonial Foundations to Post-Colonial Networks: la Virgen de Remedios, San Miguel del Milagro, and the Meme as Mexican Iconographies of Conquest.”
• MA, Hispanic Studies. Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago. (2013)
• BA, World Languages and Cultures, Spanish. Department of World Languages and Cultures, Mercyhurst University (2010).
• BA, Psychology. Department of Psychology, Mercyhurst University (2010).

Current Research Interests

• Visual and Material Culture in medieval/early-modern Spain and the Americas
• Theoretical Approaches to Colonial Studies and Post-colonial/Decolonial Theory
• Modern and contemporary Mexican literature
• Early Modern Peninsular literature
• Spanish Golden Age Theater and 21st-century adaptations
• Image production, reproduction, and adaptation
• Embodiment and the senses in approaches to religious phenomena

Selected Fellowships, Grants and Awards

• Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship, Indiana University East Campus (2021-2022)
• Dr. William Slaymaker Graduate Fellowship (2020)
• Timothy J. Rogers Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Indiana University (2019)
• The Everett Hesse Conference Award, presented by the Association of Hispanic Classical Theater (2019)
• Newberry Library Renaissance Consortium Grant (2017)
• Merle E. Simmons Summer Travel Fellowship for Research on Latin American Literature (2016)

Selected Publications

• “Rethinking Colonial Inheritances in Twenty-First Century Social Media.” In Contemporary Colonialities: Mexico and Beyond (Eds. Kathleen Myers, Pablo García Loaeza, Alejandro Mejías-        López, Cara Kinnally, and Beth Boyd, submitted.)
• “Out of the Wings: Two Non-Theatrical Adaptations of Lope de Vega’s La dama boba.” (Submitted.)
• Book Review. Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the Present, by Anna M. Nogar. Journal of Folklore Research (2019)