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Bruce Burningham

Professor of Spanish Studies, Theatre Studies, and Film Studies
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 116B
  • About
  • Education
  • Selected Research

Current Courses

SPA 305.001 Current Topics In Hispanic Civilization & Culture

THE 299.002 Independent Honor Study

THE 499.001 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

SPA 405.001 Seminar On Spanish And/Or Spanish American Culture

THE 300.003 Topics In The Literature Of The Theatre

THE 483.003 Topics in the Literature of the Theatre

THE 275.001 World Arts:Theatre

Teaching Interests & Areas

Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture; Transatlantic Studies; Hispanic Oral Traditions; Performance Theory

Research Interests & Areas

Medieval and Early Modern Literature Cervantes; Theater; Film; Jongleuresque Performance; Comedia Studies; Romancero Studies; Cultural Studies; Street Theater; Popular Culture; Postmodernism

Ph D Spanish Literature

Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

M Phil Spanish Literature

Yale University
New Haven, CT

MA Latin American Literature

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

BA Spanish

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

BA Theatre

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Book, Authored

Tilting Cervantes: Baroque Reflections on Postmodern Culture
Bruce R Burningham
(2008), Vanderbilt University Press
Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage
Bruce R Burningham
(2007), Purdue University Press

Book, Chapter

Don Quixote and the Rise of Cyberorality
Bruce R Burningham
(2020), 225-246, Millennial Cervantes: New Currents in Cervantes Studies, University of Nebraska Press
In Praise of Lupe
Bruce R Burningham
(2015), 203-219, Perspectives on Early Modern Women in Iberia and the Americas: Studies in Law, Society, Art and LIterature in Honor of Anne J. Cruz, Escribana
Os Manchíadas
Bruce R Burningham
(2009), 247-272, USA Cervantes: 39 cervantistas en Estados Unidos, Polifemo
De Laudatione Cervantina
Bruce R Burningham
(2008), 41-49, Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Spanish Studies: Essays in Memory of Carroll B. Johnson, Juan de la Cuesta
Placing the Comedia in Performative Context
Bruce R Burningham
(2006), 107-114, Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama, Modern Language Association

Book, Edited

Millennial Cervantes: New Currents in Cervantes Studies
Bruce R Burningham
(2020), University of Nebraska Press

Journal Article

Bad Moon Rising: Lycanthropy and Liminality in Cervantes’s ‘Dogs’ Colloquy
Bruce R Burningham
Romance Quarterly, 61 (2), (2014)
The Secret Life of Patiño’s Pen
Bruce R Burningham
eHumanista/Cervantes, 3, (2014)
An Apology for the Actorly: Maravall, Sor Juana, and the Economics of Jongleuresque Performance
Bruce R Burningham
Bulletin of the Comediantes, 65 (1), 131-154, (2013)
David Lynch and the Dulcineated World
Bruce R Burningham
Cervantes, 30 (2), 33-56, (2010)
On the Bricks: The Terra Nova Consort, Greenshows, and the Spanish Jongleuresque
Bruce R Burningham
Comedia Performance, 7 (1), 103-142, (2010)
The Moor’s Last Sigh: National Loss and Imperial Triumph in Lope de Vega’s The Last Goth
Bruce R Burningham
LATCH, 3, 34-63, (2010)
Insidious Echoes: Ballad Resonance and Bodily Threats in Peribáñez
Bruce R Burningham
Comedia Performance, 3 (1), 60-90, (2006)
Beleaguered Hegemony and Triangular Desire in Lope de Vega’s Las famosas asturianas and John Ford’s Stagecoach
Bruce R Burningham
Bulletin of the Comediantes, 56 (1), 115-42, (2004)
Salman Rushdie, Author of the Captive’s Tale
Bruce R Burningham
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 38 (1), 113-133, (2003)
Walt Disney’s Toy Story as Postmodern Don Quixote
Bruce R Burningham
Cervantes, 20 (1), 157-172, (2000)
Barbarians at the Gates: The Invasive Discourse of Medieval Performance in Lope’s Arte nuevo
Bruce R Burningham
Theatre Journal, 50, 289-302, (1998)