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Dr. Adriano Duque

Assistant Professor of Spanish
  • Email Address: aduque@rider.edu
  • Phone: (609) 895-5596
  • Fax: (609) 896-5393
  • Office: Fine Arts 343
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  • Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrenceville Rd, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

Adriano Duque is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. He received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Duque's research includes postcolonial readings of Christian, Muslim and Jewish relations in Medieval Spain and Syria, and analyses of the influence of the Syrian Christian legacy in Medieval Spain.  Recent work has dealt with the relation between the epic prayer and Gothic church portals, the cartographic dimension of Benedict the Pole's account of the 1237 expedition to Mongolia, or the Semiotics of Medieval Insult. His current research focuses on the construction of Christian orthodoxy in 10th century Córdoba.  Dr. Duque has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants to study the representation of Jews in the Middle Ages.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

  • Ph.D. Spanish Literature (UNC-Chapel Hill, 2004).
  • M. A. Spanish Literature (UNC-Chapel Hill, 2000).
  • “Licenciatura” in Latin and Greek Philology (Universidad de Sevilla, 1996).

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Fellowships and Academic Awards

  • Summer Fellowship. Rider University.  "Hagiography and Social Norms: Simeon Metaphrastes and the Islamic Legend of St. John the Baptist in 10th Century Greater Syria." Summer 2008.
  • Advisor Appreciation Award.  Rider University, Spring 2008.
  • Kenyon Campus Community Development Fund. Funded projects: “Horacio Guttiérrez plays Tschaikovski” and “Making ends meet in Mexican families,” Spring 2007.
  • National Endowment for The Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute. “Jews And Arabs In The Middle Ages Interpretations And History.” Vanderbilt University (2007). Director: David Wasserstein. Cancelled.
  • Nominated for  the Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring. UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 2006.
  • Faculty Mentoring Award. Department of. Romance Languages at UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 2006.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute “Representations of the ‘Other’ Jews in Medieval Christendom.” Oxford, England. (2006). Director: Irvin Resnick.
  • Tanner Ward for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 2002.
  • Johnston C. Grant for Teaching with New Technology. UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 2004.
  • Research Fellowship. Asociación de Amigos de la Universidad de Navarra, 2002-2003.
  • FLAS (Fez, Morocco). UNC-Chapel Hill, Summer 2002.
  • FLAS (Damascus, Syria). UNC-Chapel Hill, Summer 2001.
  • IBM Instructional Technology Grant. UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 2000.

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Books

  • Recuerde el alma dormida. Essays in Honor of Frank Domínguez. Edited in collaboration with John Moore (U. of Alabama at Birmingham). Forthcoming in Juan de la Cuesta (2009).

Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals

  • “Imaginería religiosa en el Poema de Fernán González.” La Corónica (2007).
  • "Zorrilla y los principios fundamentales del romanticismo." Anuario del Mediodía 3 (1993): 46-50.

Essays in Edited Collections

  • “Semiotics of Insult in the Carajicomedia.” Essays in Honor of Frank Domínguez. Forthcoming (2008).
  • “The Carpino Mission to Mongolia in 1246.” Travelogues in the Middle Ages. Ed. Jean Kosta Théphaine. Forthcoming (2007).
  • “Cómo se exalta a un héroe. La portada del juicio final de la catedral de León y su relación con la oración de suplicantes en el Poema de Fernán González.” La Corónica.  Forthcoming (2008).

Entries in Enciclopaedias

  • “Plague Monuments” Encyclopedia of Plague, Pestilence, and Pandemic.  Ed. Joseph Byrne.  Nashville Greenwood Press.  Forthcoming (2008).
  • "Juan Rufo."  Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Vol. 318. Sixteenth Century Writers. Ed. George B. Kaplan. Detroit Thomson Gale, 2005. 196-202. Written with Kenneth Atwood.

Book reviews

  • Mary F. Thurlkill, Chosen among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi'ite Islam.  Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 2007.  Forthcoming in Sixteenth Century Journal (2008).
  • D. Fairchild Ruggles, Islamic Gardens and Landscapes.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.  Forthcoming in Sixteenth Century Journal (2008) Pedro Monferrer Sala, Medieval Encounters.  Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007.  Forthcoming in Sixteenth Century Journal (2008).
  • Robert Archer. The Problem of Woman in Late-Medieval Hispanic Literature. Woodbridge: Tamesis (Monografías A, Vol. 214), 2005. (Forthcoming in Rilce).
  • Cervantes y su  mundo.” Ed. Kart and Eva Reichenberger. Kassel: Reichenberger, 2004.  Forthcoming in Sixteenth Century Journal (2006).
  • Ruiz, Teófilo. From Heaven to Earth. The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150-1350. Princeton UP, 2004.  Forthcoming (2007).
  • Baraz, Daniel. Medieval Cruelty. Hispanófila. Forthcoming (2006).
  • Calderón. Humillados y ofendidos. Ed. Ignacio Arellano y Luis Galván. Rilce NRFH 52 (2005): 577-9.
  • Lucía Mejías. Literatura románica en internet." Rilce 19:2 (2003): 319-321.

Translations

  • “Primer poema de Mutanabbi” Hermeneus 9 December 2007.  Hermeneus. Revista de la Facultad de Traduccion e Interpretacion de Soria 9 (2007): 267-270.
  • Los tapices de Angers. Ministère de l'Education. Seville-France, 1992.
  • Hans Leopold Davi. "La niñera de Jean Paul Sartre." Alor Novísimo 24 (1994): 24.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

  • “Sacred Bonding: Mothers and Daughters in the Episode of the Voluntary Martyrdoms of Córdoba (843-849).” Talk given at the Conference Global Encounters: Legacies of Exchange and Conflict UNC, Chapel Hill, 2008.
  • "Judaizing the Legend of 'El niño de la Guardia' (1490).’” Talk given at the 43rd Medieval Conference in Kalamazoo, May 2008. 
  • “The Kissing of the Hand: Body and Ritual in Spanish Epics.” Celebration of the Cid. University of New Mexico. Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society, February 2008.
  • “Visible Invisibility: Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Episode of the Martyrs of Córdoba (852-3 AD).”  Talk given at the Conference Al-Andalus: Cultural Diffusion and Hybridity in Iberia (1000-1600). University of Wisconsin-Madison' October 2007.
  • “Insult in Spanish Epics.” Talk given at the MLA Conference in the 42 Medieval Conference in Kalamazoo, May 2007.
  • “The Semiotics of Insult in 'Carajicomedia.'” Talk given at the MLA Conference in Philadelphia, December 2006.
  • “The Syrian legend of the Stag and its migration to Spain in the 10th Century.” Talk given at the 2006 Medieval Conference in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2006.
  • “Building Identity in the Romance de Penitencia del Rey Rodrigo and in the legend of the Stag.” Talk given at the Carolina Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 2006.
  • “Syrian Christian Influence in Medieval Spain.” Talk given at the MLA Conference in Washington DC, December 2005.
  • “Cathedral Imagery in a Spanish Religious Epic poem” Talk given at the 42  International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, May 2005.
  • “The Origins of the Poema de Fernán González.” Talk given the Tenth Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Languages, March 2004.
  • “Politics of Space in the Poema de Fernán González.”  Talk given at the 2004 North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, March 2004.
  • ”The Carpino Mission to Mongolia in 1237.” Talk given at the Carolina Conference of Romance Languages, March 2002.
  • “El gesto de la abulia en un personaje del Don Juan de Azorín.” Talk given at the Kentucky Conference on Foreign Languages, April 2002.
  • "Water and Wine Debates: a Tipology.” Talk given at the Midwest Medieval Association, February 2002.
  • “Enumeración caótica en Concierto Barroco de Alejo Carpentier.” Talk given at the Carolina Conference of Romance Languages, April 2001.
  • “El milagro de la serpiente en el Poema de Fernán González.”  Talk given at the Carolina Conference of Romance Languages,  April 2000.

INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

  • “La leyenda de San Eustaquio entre Siria y España.” Talk Given for the “Club de mujeres latinas de Princeton.”  Princeton, NJ, November 2007.
  • “Introduction to the Semiotics of Insult.” Lecture given for the Student of Linguistics at Kenyon College, April 2006.
  • “Subverting Isabella: Semiotics of Insult in 15th Century Spain.” Talk given at the II MLL Colloquium at Kenyon College, November 2006.
  • “Demonstration Class for Incoming Language Students at UNC-Chapel Hill.” Given for the Office of Admisions at UNC Chapel Hill, April 2006.
  • “Approaches to ESL.” CLAP. UNC-Chapel Hill, March 2006.
  • “Teaching Literature in Romance Languages.” Talk given at the Department of Romance Languages, UNC-Chapel Hill, November, 2005.
  • “Crash Lesson of Incoming Fellows in the Department of Romance Languages at UNC.” Talk given at the Department of Romance Languages, UNC-Chapel Hill, August 2005.
  • “Demonstration Class for Incoming Language Students at UNC-Chapel Hill.” Given for the Office of Admisions at UNC-Chapel Hill, April 2005.
  • “Epic Poetry in the 12th Century Renaissance.” Talk given for the Medieval Survey Class in the Department of History at UNC-Chapel Hill, April 1, 2005.
  • “Teaching Literature to Languages Students.” Talk given in the Department of Romance Languages, UNC, December 2004.
  • "Teaching with videos.”  Talk given in the Department of Romance Languages, UNC-Chapel Hill, November 2003.
  • "La Literatura en clase de ‘ELE’."Jornadas de enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera." Talk given at the Universidad de Navarra, May 2003.