Karen Daly

Karen is a Lecturer in Spanish in the Modern Languages Program of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong, where she is Coordinator of Spanish and European Studies. She has an B.A. in Spanish and French from the University of Virginia and a M.A. and PhD in Spanish Literature from Indiana University. She previously taught Spanish at Indiana University and at Utah State University.

Research Interests

Karen’s research interests are primarily in Medieval Spanish literature, especially travel narratives. Her PhD explores travel discourse prior to Columbus in the 15th-century Spanish libros de viajes.

Publications

“Hombres virtuosos y mujeres escandalosas en las Andanças de Pero Tafur.” Maravillas, peregrinaciones y utopias: Literatura de viajes en el mundo románico. Ed. Rafael Beltrán. Valencia: Universitat de València, 2002.

“Teaching the Kharja in Context: A Proposal.” Medieval Perspectives 15:2 (94-108): 2000.

Conference Presentations

October 2007. “On One’s Best Behavior: Medieval Castilian Travellers as Exemplary Models,” Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Texas Medieval Association, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA.

October 2007. “Mapping Space and Time in the Embajada a Tamorlán,” The Thirty-third Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA.

May 2004. “Mapping Christianity in the East in the Embajada a Tamorlán,” Thirty-ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.

May 2002. “Maravilla in Fifteenth-Century Spanish libros de viajes.” Thirty-seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.

March 2002. “Textually Mapping Tamerlane’s Empire in the Embajada a Tamorlán.” Carolina Conference Romance Literatures, University of North Carolina, USA.

May 2000. “Scandalous Women: Gender Through the Eyes of a Fifteenth-Century Spanish Traveler.” Thirty-fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.

November 1999. “Hombres virtuosos y mujeres escandalosas en las Andanças de Pero Tafur.” Jornadas sobre Literatura de Viajes en el Mundo Románico, Departament Filologia Espanyola, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain.

October 1999. “Teaching the Kharjas in the Context of the Muwashshah: A Proposal.” The Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

May 1999. “Lessons of Love: Didactic Courtesy Literature as a Source for the God of Love’s Commandments to the Lover in the Roman de la Rose.” The Nineteenth Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Email: kdaly@uow.edu.au
Phone:+61 2 4221 5699

Last reviewed: 21 May, 2008