Dr. Bauer鈥檚 area of specialization is in Early Modern Spanish Literature, especially narrative. Her dissertation, 鈥淢adness and Laughter: Cervantes鈥檚 Comic Vision in Don Quixote,鈥 looks at the relationship between carnival, madness, and laughter as well as the connections between journey and humor. She is also interested in the theory of the novel in addition to Menippean satire and the role it plays in forming comic literature throughout history.
Class Projects
Spring 2011
Professor Bauer鈥瞫 Intermediate Spanish 201 classes created video stories in Spanish which summarized their experience at Rhodes College. Each class then voted on their favorites. Please check the links below to see the representative videos of "Nuestra experiencia en 番茄社区."
Omolola Ajayi, Charles Walker, Sam Jacus, Rachel Ward
Aldo Charles, Frankie Dakin, Joe Barlia
Devin Cochrane and Maggie Klusman
Spring 2012
Tyler Adams, Allyson Topps, Teddy Huerta, Andrea Tedesco
Bene Woods, Mathew Washnock, and Luke Spinolo
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
鈥.鈥 Oxford Handbook of Cervantes. February 10, 2021.
"Deceptive Framing: the Signifier Barataria in Don Quixote and the Americas." Framing the Quixote, Brigham Young University (2007): 137-147.
鈥淭he Im/Permanence of Hybridity.鈥 Multiplicities: Mediating Cultural Productions, Purdue University (2000): 69-71.
鈥淗earing Dracula: Sound as Sign in Film.鈥 Romance Languages Annual 10 (1999): 45-50.
PRESENTATIONS AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
"Disturbing Devices: The Relationship between Journey and Humor in Don Quixote." International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, in Granada, Spain June 8, 2011.
鈥淎pproaching Cervantes鈥檚 Comic Vision through the Concept of Journey.鈥 South Atlantic Modern Language Association: Annual Convention. Charlotte, NC, November 11, 2006.
鈥淧or el barato con que se le hab铆a dado el Nuevo Mundo.鈥 Framing the Quixote Conference. Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, October 15, 2005.
鈥淩eading Don Quixote in the Menippean Tradition.鈥 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 23, 2005.
鈥淐ervantes in the New World.鈥 Pasado, presente, y futuro: Graduate Student Conference on Hispanic Literature &Linguistics. Miami University. Oxford, OH, February 8, 2003.
鈥淭he Im/Permanence of Hybridity.鈥 Purdue University鈥檚 Second Graduate Studies Symposium of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. West Lafayette, IN, February 12, 2000.
鈥淗earing Dracula: Sound as Sign in Film.鈥 Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literature, and Film. West Lafayette, IN, October 9, 1999.