Dr. Bauer’s area of specialization is in Early Modern Spanish Literature, especially narrative. Her dissertation, “Madness and Laughter: Cervantes’s Comic Vision in Don Quixote,” looks at the relationship between carnival, madness, and laughter as well as the connections between journey and humor. She is also interested in the theory of the novel in addition to Menippean satire and the role it plays in forming comic literature throughout history.
Class Projects
Spring 2011
Professor Bauer′s Intermediate Spanish 201 classes created video stories in Spanish which summarized their experience at 91 College. Each class then voted on their favorites. Please check the links below to see the representative videos of "Nuestra experiencia en 91."
Omolola Ajayi, Charles Walker, Sam Jacus, Rachel Ward
Aldo Charles, Frankie Dakin, Joe Barlia
Devin Cochrane and Maggie Klusman
Spring 2012
Tyler Adams, Allyson Topps, Teddy Huerta, Andrea Tedesco
Bene Woods, Mathew Washnock, and Luke Spinolo
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“.” Oxford Handbook of Cervantes. February 10, 2021.
"Deceptive Framing: the Signifier Barataria in Don Quixote and the Americas." Framing the Quixote, Brigham Young University (2007): 137-147.
“T Im/Permanence of Hybridity.” Multiplicities: Mediating Cultural Productions, Purdue University (2000): 69-71.
“Hearing Dracula: Sound as Sign in Film.” Romance Languages Annual 10 (1999): 45-50.
PRESENTATIONS AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
"Disturbing Devices: The Relationship between Journey and Humor in Don Quixote." International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, in Granada, Spain June 8, 2011.
“Approaching Cervantes’s Comic Vision through the Concept of Journey.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association: Annual Convention. Charlotte, NC, November 11, 2006.
“Por el barato con que se le había dado el Nuevo Mundo.” Framing the Quixote Conference. Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, October 15, 2005.
“Reading Don Quixote in the Menippean Tradition.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 23, 2005.
“Cervantes in the New World.” Pasado, presente, y futuro: Graduate Student Conference on Hispanic Literature &Linguistics. Miami University. Oxford, OH, February 8, 2003.
“T Im/Permanence of Hybridity.” Purdue University’s Second Graduate Studies Symposium of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. West Lafayette, IN, February 12, 2000.
“Hearing Dracula: Sound as Sign in Film.” Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literature, and Film. West Lafayette, IN, October 9, 1999.
Education
M.A., Spanish Literature, Purdue University
Ph.D., Spanish Literature, Vanderbilt University
