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Department of Spanish and Portuguese
 

John Slater

Assistant Professor
PhD Brandeis University (2004)
Office: MKNA 26A | Phone: 303.492.0309 | Email: jslater@colorado.edu

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Research Areas

Golden Age Spanish Literature, Literature and Science, Trans-Atlantic Baroque Theater

Selected Publications

Selected Articles:

“Scenes of Mediation: Staging Medicine in the Spanish Interludes.”  (forthcoming in Social History of Medicine.)

 

“From Historia Naturalis to Historia au naturale.” The Gentleman, the Virtuoso, the Inquirer:

Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa and the Art of Collecting in Early Modern Spain.   Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 30-46.

 

“History as an Ekphrastic Genre in Early Modern Spain.”  MLN 122.2 (2007): 216-32.

 

“La escenificación teatral de la práctica médica en el Siglo de Oro.” Medicina, Ideología e Historia en España (Siglos XVI-XXI). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2007. 601-7.

 

“Fables of Communication: The Rhetoric of Investigative Methodology and Golden Age Literature.”  Beyond the Black Legend:  Spain and the Scientific Revolution.Valencia: Soler, 2007.  209-20.

 

“Sacramental Instrumentality: Representation, Demonstration, and the Calderonian Auto.”  Bulletin of the Comediantes 58.2 (2006): 479-500 .

 

“La primera traducción española de la Pseudodoxia Epidemica de Thomas Browne.” Bibliotheca Magica.  Ed. Mar Rey Bueno.  Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2006. 45-50.

 

“Combinatory Spirit: Staging Transubstantiation in the Emblematic Theater.”  Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes.  Ed. Frederick de Armas.  Lewisberg, Penn.: Bucknell UP, 2005.  78-101.