FLL Faculty
Carmen Nocentelli - Assistant Professor of
Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies
Contact Information
Humanities 349 University of New Mexico Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Albuquerque, NM 87131-1146 Phone: (505) 277-8944 Fax: (505) 277-3599 Email:
Educational History
2004, Ph.D., in Comparative Literature, Stanford University
1992, M.A., in Literature, American University
1992, M.A. in Public Communication, American University
1990, Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne,
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Research Interests
- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Drama
- Travel Literature
- Cross-cultural Contacts
- Race and Ethnicity
- History of Sexuality
Selected Publications
Articles & Book Chapters
- The Erotics of Mercantile Imperialism:
Cross-Cultural Requitedness in the Early Modern Period.
In Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 8.1 (2008). - Discipline and Love: Linschoten and the Estado da Índia.
In Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires, ed. Margaret R. Greer, Walter D. Mignolo, and Maureen Quilligan.
(University of Chicago Press, 2007). - Consuming Cannibals:
Léry, Montaigne, and Communal Identities in Sixteenth-Century France.
In Nuevo Texto Crítico 12.23-24 (1999).
Other Writing
- Spostare il centro del mondo: la lotta per le libertà culturali
[Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms].
Translation into Italian from an original by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. (Meltemi 2000).
Awards
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Newberry Library (2008-2009)
- Julia M. Keleher and Telfair Hendon Junior Faculty Award,
Department of English, UNM (2008) - Mayers Fellowship, Huntington Library (2007)
- Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellowship, Newberry Library (2006)
- Large Research Grant, UNM Research Allocation Committee (2006)
- Susan Geiger Faculty Award, UNM Feminist Research Institute Board (2005)
- Small Research Grant, UNM Research Allocation Committee (2005)
Teaching Interests
- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Drama
- Epic Poetry
- Early Modern Colonialisms
- Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
Representative Courses
- ENGL582 - Shakespeare and Race
- COMP480 | ENGL452 - The Renaissance
- COMP432 | ENGL432 | FREN432 - Inventing America, 1492-1624
- ENGL352 - Early Shakespeare
- ENGL353 - Later Shakespeare
- COMP380 | ENGL315 - Literature and the Age of Exploration
- COMP224 | Literary Questions: Images of the State