Amanda W. Powell
senior instructor
Contact info:
Office: FR 105
Phone: (541) 346-0953
apowell@uoregon.edu
Degrees, years, and locations:
B.A., 1977, Yale; M.A., 1983, Boston University. (1991)
Research and teaching interests:
16th and 17th century Spanish and Colonial Latin American
women writers; convent writings and lyrical texts; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Literary translation.
Courses taught:
Graduate-level courses:
"Literary Translation" Seminar/Workshop; "Bodies Bilingual: Cultures and Feminisms in Translation,
Theory and Practice"; "Juana Inés de la Cruz: Substance, Style, and Subversion"; Advanced Writing
in Spanish.
Undergraduate courses:
400-level: the above classes. RL 407 "Art and Literature of the Spanish Civil War";
SPAN 407 "Women Poets of the Golden Age"; SPAN 452 "Renaissance and Baroque Spanish Poetry";
SPAN 410 "Social Roots of Literary Creativity"
300-level: SPAN 330 "Introduction to Poetry"; SPAN 333 "Introduction to Narrative";
SPAN 317 "Spanish (Peninsular) Literature, Romanticism to Post-Modern" (19th-20th century);
SPAN 316 "Spanish (Peninsular) Literature, Medieval and Early Modern" (11th-17th century);
SPAN 318 "Indigenous and Spanish Literature of Colonial Latin America"; intermediate and
advanced Spanish language (3rd and 4th year).
Publications:
The Book for the Hour of Recreation of María de San José Salazar (1548-1605), study by Alison Weber,
translation by Amanda Powell (University of Chicago Press, "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe" series, 2002).
A Wild Country Out in the Garden: The Spiritual Journals of a Colonial Mexican Nun, study and translation
by Kathleen Myers and Amanda Powell (Indiana University Press, December 1999).
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. The Answer/La respuesta, translation and commentary by Electa Arenal and
Amanda Powell (The Feminist Press, 1994).
Untold Sisters: Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Works by E. Arenal and Stacey Schlau; translations of poetry
and prose by Amanda Powell (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989).
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