About Me:

I teach Spanish-Language Cultural Studies and interdisciplinary methods and research. I am interested in cultures in contact, especially in pre-Hispanic times, but also in how certain indigenous groups were brought to the Caribbean and Gulf Coast to serve as colonists for Spanish expansion efforts.

Occupation:

Associate Dean, College of Arts and Letters and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies. Associate Professof of Spanish

Education:

Arizona State University. Doctor of Philosophy in Spanish, Concentration Latin American Colonial Literature, May 1994. Dissertation: “Saints and Warriors: The Lienzo de Tlaxcala and the Conquest of Tenochtitlan.” Areas of Examination: Seventeenth Century, Poetry.

The University of Texas at Austin. Master of Arts in Latin American Studies. August 1986. Concentrations in Anthropology and Art History with secondary work in Latin American Literature (in Spanish and Portuguese). Research Reports: “Cacaxtla: A Discussion of the Symbol Systems/The Olmeca-Xicalanca in Southwestern Tlaxcala.”

Purdue University. Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature with minors in History, Political Science, and Art. May 1984.

Contact Information:

gillespie.jeanne@gmail.com

Research Interests:

Caribbean and Gulf Coast indigenous communities, oral traditions, cultures in contact, migration and immigration, issues of gender and heritage.

Publications:

Women’s Voices and the Politics of the Spanish Empire: From Convent Cell to Imperial Court. Collection of essays edited with Jennifer Eich and Lucia Guzzi-Harrison. University Press of the South, 2008.

Saints and Warriors: Tlaxcalan Perspectives on the Conquest of Tenochtitlan. University Press of the South, 2004.

Book in progress:
Performing Spanish Louisiana: Isleño Décimas and the Narratives of St. Bernard Parish. A collection of Isleño texts, images and folklore.

Book Chapters:
“Malinche: Fleshing out the Foundational Fictions of the Conquest of Mexico.” Laura Esquivel's Fiction: Re-imagining Identity, Gender, and Genre in Mexico. Willingham, Elizabeth, ed., Sussex Press, 2010.

“Catarina de San Juan and the Politics of Conversion and Empire.” in Women’s Voices and the Politics of the Spanish Empire: From Convent Cell to Imperial Court. Collection of essays edited with Jennifer Eich and Lucia Guzzi-Harrison. University Press of the South. 2008.

“Finding the Global in the Local: Explorations in Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching.” With Marjorie Rhine in Damrosch, David. Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York: MLA, 2008.

“Abstinence, Balance, and Political Control in Mesoamerica.” Celibacy and Religious Traditions. Carl Olsen, ed. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Affiliation:

The University of Southern Mississippi

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