- Professor, Hispanic Studies, College of Liberal Arts
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Hilaire Kallendorf is Professor of Hispanic and Religious Studies and former Cornerstone Faculty Fellow in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at UCLA and an American Council of Learned Societies / Andrew W. Mellon Junior Faculty Fellow. She was awarded a Howard Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship from Brown University and, in 2006, the $50,000 Hiett Prize in the Humanities, along with research grants from the Renaissance Society of America, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Ford Foundation, Spain's Ministry of Culture, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the author of four monographs, Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain (Toronto, 2003); Conscience on Stage: The Comedia as Casuistry in Early Modern Spain (Toronto, 2007); Sins of the Fathers: Moral Economies in Early Modern Spain (Toronto, 2013); and Ambiguous Antidotes: Virtue as Vaccine for Vice in Early Modern Spain (Toronto, 2017). She is general editor of A New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism (Brill, 2010), which won the 2011 Bainton Book Prize for Reference Works from the Sixteenth Century Society; A Companion to Early Modern Hispanic Theater (Brill, 2014); and A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance (Brill, 2019). She translated Spanish Baroque poet Francisco de Quevedo's Silvas into English (Universidad de San Marcos, 2011). With her father she wrote a memoir, Acing Depression: A Tennis Champion's Toughest Match (Washington, D.C.: New Chapter Press, 2010). She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals on such topics as self-exorcism, piety and pornography, ghosts, Ta?no religious ceremonies, and Christian humanism in the Renaissance, as well as entries on Spain, Spanish Literature, Miguel de Cervantes, and Hispanic Mysticism for the Renaissance and Reformation edition of the Oxford Bibliographies Online.
- Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Princeton University - (Princeton, New Jersey, United States) 2000
- M.A. in Comparative Literature, Princeton University - (Princeton, New Jersey, United States) 1998
- B.A. in Spanish and English, Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 1995
Academic Articles58
- Kallendorf, H. (2019). Review: Las escritoras españolas de la Edad Moderna. Historia y guía para la investigación, Leturio Nieves Baranda, Cruz Anne J.. 67(2), 675-681.
- Kallendorf, H. (2018). La virtud como metáfora médica en el drama español de la Edad Moderna. eHumanista. 39, 105-121.
- Kallendorf, H. (2017). "Cómo Ocultar la Verdad Sin Mentir": Cercas's El Impostor and the Doctrine of Equivocation. Hispanófila. 180(1), 109-123.
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- Kallendorf, H. (2017). Ambiguous Antidotes Virtue As Vaccine for Vice in Early Modern Spain. Toronto Iberic.
- Richey, C., & Kallendorf, H. R. (2010). Acing Depression A Tennis Champion's Toughest Match. New Chapter Press.
Chapters9
- Kallendorf, H. (2019). Splitting Hairs or Finding Threads: The Labyrinth as Metaphor for Moral Dilemma in the Comedia. Poza, S. L., Sueiro, N. P., de la Campa, M., Cuenca, I. P., Byrne, S., & Vidorreta, A.. (Eds.), Docta y sabia Atenea. Studia in honorem Lía Schwartz. 339-358. Universidade da Coruña; IULCE; Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies; Queen Sofía Spanish Institute; SIELAE.
- Kallendorf, H. (2014). Cervantes, Miguel. Sgarbi, M.. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. 1-7. Springer International Publishing.
- Kallendorf, H. (2014). Quevedo, Francisco de. Sgarbi, M. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. 1-6. Springer International Publishing.
- Kallendorf, H. A. (2012). Dressing a Salad, Clothing with Virtue; or, Is One Language More Righteous than Another?. Arellano, I., & Indurain, C. M. (Eds.), ST FRANCIS XAVIER AND THE JESUIT MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE. ASSIMILATIONS BETWEEN CULTURES. 113-123. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2012 (BIADIG, Biblioteca urea Digital-Publicaciones digitales del GRISO).
- Kallendorf, H. (2010). Hispanic Mysticism. King, M. (Eds.), Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation. Oxford University Press.
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Principal Investigator10
- book publication subvention grant awarded by Ministerio de Educacion Cultura y Deporte - (Madrid, Spain) 2008 - 2008
Co-Principal Investigator2
- Cornerstone Faculty Fellow conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) - This fellowship lasted until 2019. 2015
- HISP471 Hispanic Religions Instructor
- HISP618 Hisp Trad Pop Cult & Rel Instructor
- HISP653 Don Quixote & Hisp Novel Instructor
- HISP665 Sem In Spanish Lit Instructor
- HISP685 Directed Studies Instructor
- Alfonso Entralgo, Yumary (2018-05). La Virgen cruza el Atl?ntico. Hibridaci?n y Palimpsesto iconogr?fico.. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Montejo-Pizzaro, Martha M (2015-08). Flotar en la viscosidad. Literatura cubana de los 90. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Brewer, Rebecca Ann (2013-08). Language Attitudes and Linguistic Profiling among Micro-Enterprisers in Mexico. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Brewer, Jeremi (2012-05). Culture, Poverty and Necessity Entrepreneurship: The Academy for Creating Enterprise in Mexico and the Philippines. (Doctoral Dissertation)
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