Kristin E Routt
Associate Professor of Spanish
Office: 1371 - Coleman Hall
Phone: 217-581-7420
Email: keroutt@eiu.edu
http://ux1.eiu.edu/~keroutt/
Frequently Taught Courses
FLS 1101 Beginning Spanish IFLS 2202G Intermediate Spanish II
FLS 3300 Hispanic Cinema
FLS 3250 Introduction to Hispanic Literary Analysis
FLS 4310 Spanish Culture and Civilization
FLS 3510 Modern Spanish Literature
FLS 4520 Colonial Spanish American Literature
Education
Ph.D. (1998) Hispanic Literature Indiana UniversityMasters Degree (1993) Hispanic Literature University of Louisville
B.A. (1989) Philosophy Indiana University
Professional Organizations
Research
Colonial Spanish American literature, spiritual autobiography, women's writing, masculinity studies, writing and the bodyPublications
“Historia y fantasía en Historia del Rey Transparente de Rosa Montero.” Notandum 29 (2012): 17-24.“Sanctity or Self-Will? Madre María de San José and the Ascetic Path to Holiness.” Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura. 22.1 (2006): 42-57.
“La madre María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio, la leche de la Virgen María y la literatura devocional del siglo XVIII.” Homenaje al Dr. José Pascual Buxó. Ed. Enrique Ballón Aguirre and Óscar Rivera Rodas. México, D.F.: UNAM, 2002. 401-39.
Book Review: Stephanie Merrim. Early Modern Women’s Writing and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1999. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 78 (2001): 130.
“’Hablar con Dios’: Language as Úrsula Suárez’s camino de perfección.” Dieciocho 21.2 (1998): 219-36.
“El cuerpo femenino y la creación literaria en La inocencia castigada de María de Zayas.” Romance Languages Annual7 (1995): 616-20.
Conference Presentations
"Un retrato de Pablo Picasso." Fall Conference of the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Tinley Park, IL, October 18-20, 2012.Gave three workshops with two colleagues (one from Eastern, another from Millikin University) at the Fall Conference of the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Tinley Park, IL, October 21-22, 2011.
“Fantasía histórica e historia fantástica: Historia del Rey Transparente de Rosa Montero.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY, April 14-16, 2011.
“Nuevos modelos de la historia en Historia del Rey Transparente de Rosa Montero.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. St. Louis, MO, October 28-30, 2010.
“Skeleton Puppets and the Day of the Dead.” Presented with Carlos Amaya. Conference of the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Chicago, IL, October 22-24, 2009.
“Paper Flowers and the Day of the Cross.” Presented with Carlos Amaya. Conference of the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Chicago, IL, October 22-24, 2009.
“Maternal Milk and Mysticism: Madre María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio.” Kentucky Foreign Langauge Conference. University of Kentucky, April 17-19, 2008.
“Renaissance Humanism and Affective Mysticism in Sor Juana’s El divino Narciso” Conference of the Midwest Association of Latin American Studies. Hilton St. Louis, MO, November 1-3, 2007.
“Asceticism and Masculinity:The Spiritual Autobiography of Ignacio de Loyola.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 20-22, 2006.
“Sanctity or Self-Will? The Spiritual Autobiograpy of Madre María de San José.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 21-23 2005.
“(Re-)Visions of John of the Cross in the Spanish American Colonial Convent.” Midwest Association of Latin American Studies. Eastern Illinois University, November 6-8, 2003.
“Ejercicios, devociones and novenas: Devotional Literature of the Eighteenth Century.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 18-20, 2002.
