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José Estrada

José Estrada

Assistant Teaching Professor of Hispanic Studies

  • POS 347B
Address
Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics
4980 Margaret Morrison St
Posner Hall 341
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213

Education

Ph.D., Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies, University of Chicago
M.A., Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies, University of Chicago
B.A., World Language Education-Spanish, DePaul University

Bio

José Estrada's research is focused on early-modern Spanish literature, particularly theater, and the emerging transatlantic society as a result of the encounter between Europe and the Americas. A significant amount of his studies revolve around Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1580?-1639). Estrada interpret his theater as a form of self-fashioning. Ruiz de Alarcón's birth and upbringing in New Spain in addition to his travels to Spain place his theater at a privileged position for analysis through a transatlantic lens.

Within the early-modern period, Estrada also studies the cultural and linguistic exchange between cultures in Colonial Mexico. He is currently studying don Bartolomé de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl’s Nahuatl translations of Spanish Baroque theater in the early 1640s. Hence, his research not only analyzes the role that the American continent played in important debates and developments of the Early Modern period, but also how space and place are used to build identities through performance and language in an emerging global society.

  • Early Modern Spanish Theater
  • Spanish Baroque Literature
  • Colonial Mexico
  • Nahuatl Studies
  • Mexican-American/Chicanx Literature
    • 82-343 Latin America: Language and Culture
    • 82-344 Latines in the US: Language and Culture
    • 82-455 Is Seeing Believing? Science in the Hispanic World
    • 82-347 Spanish for Heritage Speakers
    • 82-282 Interpreting Global Texts and Cultures
    • Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Faculty Fellowship, 2024-2025
    • Provost's Inclusive Teaching Fellowship, 2021-2022
    • Ford Foundation Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2016
    • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship: Portuguese, 2016
    • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship: Nahuatl, 2015
  • Member, Executive Committee, MLA's LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama forum

Journal Articles

Estrada, José. “Marvelous Dualities in Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s El semejante a sí mismo.” Bulletin of the Comediantes, vol. 75, no. 1, 2024, pp. 37–56. https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2024.a938469.

Estrada, José. “La comedia como mapa y las translationes imperii et studii en El rufián dichoso.” Cervantes, vol. 42, no. 1, 2022, pp. 107–26. https://doi.org/10.1353/cer.2022.0006.

Estrada, José. “‘Contigo hablo, bestia fiera’: Estrategias de autoría en los paratextos de las Comedias de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón.” Alarconiana, vol. 5, pp. 83–96.

Book Chapters

Estrada, José. “Hidden Pilgrimages: Considerations on a Religious Wandering in Miguel de Cervantes’ ‘The Illustrious Kitchen Maid.’” Newberry Essays in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 9, pp. 95–102.

Department Member Since 2019