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Felipe Valencia

  • E-mail address: Felipe_Valencia@Brown.edu
  • Hometown: Bogotá, Colombia
  • Degrees

      • B.A. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spanish Philology, concentration in Spanish American Literature), 2006.
      • A. M. Brown University, 2010.

Research Interests

My research focuses on lyrical poetry and poetics in Golden Age Spain. My dissertation studies the repercussions of melancholy and its related theoretical problemsin Spanish lyrical poetry in the period between 1585 and 1613, that is, between Cervantes's La Galatea and La Numancia and Góngora's Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea and Soledade. Melancholy was a notion loaded with various and problematic meanings that drew from several traditions and disciplines. To articulate its ethical, political, and literary implications, and to speculate about what it enabled in terms of voice and form, I will also examine, besides the aforementioned works by Cervantes and Góngora, the poetry of Francisco de la Torre and Juan de Arguijo, and the theoretical works of Juan Huarte de San Juan, Fernando de Herrera, and Alonso López Pinciano, among others.

Doctoral Dissertation

"'El melancólico vacío': Poesía y melancolía entre La Galatea de Cervantes y el Polifemo de Góngora (1585-1613)" (advisor: Mary M. Gaylord [Harvard University]; co-advisor: Stephanie Merrim)

Major Paper (Master's Thesis)

"El errante peregrinaje de la persona poética en las Soledades de Luis de Góngora y el Sueño de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" (advisor: Stephanie Merrim).

Publications

    • "'Acoged blandamente mi suspiro': El beso de almas en la poesía petrarquista española del siglo XVI". Dicenda 26 (2008): 259-90. [PDF]

Conference Papers

    • "'El almíbar picaresco': Free Will and Food in Guzmán de Alfarache." Nineteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium: "Food for Thought, for Writing, and for Art." University of Miami, February 18-19, 2011.

      "'Gocé para entristecerme': 'La Celestina' y Denis de Rougemont." Myth and Myth-Making in Iberian and Luso-Hispanic Literatures. University of Chicago, October 31-November 1, 2008.

    • "El errante peregrinaje de la persona poética en las Soledades de Góngora y el Sueño de Sor Juana." 9th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. University of Oregon, November 5-7, 2009.

Courses Taught at Brown

    • HISP 100.02: Basic Spanish I (Fall 2008).
    • HISP 200.03: Basic Spanish II (Spring 2009).
    • HISP 300.05: Intermediate Spanish I (Fall 2009) as Teaching Fellow.
    • HISP 400.05: Intermediate Spanish II (Spring 2010) as Teaching Fellow.
    • HISP 740.01: Intensive Survey of Spanish Literature (Fall 2010).