Dr. Margaret R. Ewalt

Associate Professor of Spanish

Office: Greene 522

Phone: (336) 758-5807

E-mail: ewaltmr@wfu.edu

www.wfu.edu/~ewaltmr

Education

• Ph.D., Spanish, University of Virginia, 2001
• M.A., Spanish, University of Virginia, 1997
• B.A., American Studies, Colby College, 1992

Research Interests

• The Hispanic Enlightenment ( Spain and Latin America)
• Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literature
• Colonial Latin American Literature

Courses Taught

• Spanish 154: Accelerated Intermediate Spanish
• Spanish 213: Introduction to Hispanic Literature
• Spanish 317:  Literary and Cultural Studies of Spain
• Spanish 318: Literary and Cultural Studies of Latin America
• Cultural and Literary Identity in Latin America: From Colonial to Postcolonial Voices
• Transatlantic Enlightenment

Departmental Activities

• Editorial Board for Reflejos
• Faculty Sponsor for Sigma Delta Pi

Honors and Awards

• ISECS: International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies grant to participate in the International Seminar on the Eighteenth Century at the University of California, Los Angeles, Summer 2003
• Invited Research Scholar and lecturer at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, R.I. Wake Forest University Archie travel grant for living and research expenses, Summer 2003
• First Prize from the Dean of Faculty at the University of Virginia Arts and Sciences Graduate Research Symposium, Spring 2001

Representative Publications

• Peripheral Wonders:  Nature, Knowledge, and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-Century Orinoco.  Bucknell University Press, 2008.
• Review essay on _Bolonia, Florencia, Roma:  Cartas familiares I_ by Juan Andrés Morrell, S.J. (edited by Enrique Giménez López)  Dieciocho:
  Hispanic Enlightenment_ 30.2 (Fall 2007):  414-416.
• “Christianity, Coca, and Commerce in the Peruvian Mercury.”  SECC: Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture.  36 (Spring 2007):  187-212.
• "El culto a la coca:  de admiratio a scientia en El Mercurio Peruano." In Redes y espacios de opinión pública:  De la ilustración al Romanticismo.  Cádiz, América y Europa ante la Modernidad.  Ed. Marieta Cantos Casenave.  Cádiz: University of Cádiz Press, 2006.
• “Crossing Over: Nations and Naturalists in El Orinoco ilustrado. Reading and Writing the Book of Orinoco Secrets.” Dieciocho 29.1, Spring 2006.
• “Frontier Encounters and Pathways to Knowledge in the New Kingdom of Granada.” The Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies 3, Fall 2005.
• “Father Gumilla: Crocodile Hunter? The Function of Wonder in El Orinoco ilustrado.” In El saber de los jesuitas, historias naturales y el Nuevo Mundo/Jesuit Knowledge, Natural Histories and the New World. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, April 2005
• The Legacy of Joseph Gumilla's Orinoco Enlightened ." Forthcoming in Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas : Textualities, Intellectual Disputes, Intercultural Transfers . Toronto : University of Toronto Press.
• Review article on The Routes of Modernity: Spanish American Poetry from the Early Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Andrew Bush, Dieciocho 26.2, Fall 2003
• "Isabel Allende's Paula: The Writing Process as Self-Discovery," Torre de Papel 9.3, Fall 2000
• "Félix María Samaniego: Fábulas en verso castellano," Dieciocho 22.1, Spring 1999