  {"id":9448,"date":"2012-09-13T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T11:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/?page_id=9448"},"modified":"2025-09-11T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:46:08","slug":"kidd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/kidd\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidd, Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a1Hola! Et salve!<\/p>\n<p>Before coming to Augsburg in 2008, I taught at St. Olaf, Macalester, Carleton, and the University of New Mexico. I love Augsburg&#8217;s urban location, its emphasis on global citizenship, and its unique Medieval Studies program.<\/p>\n<p>With academic training in Hispanic Studies and Classics, I teach a broad array of courses in Spanish language, literature, and culture as well as first-year Latin. My scholarship focuses on medieval, early modern, and contemporary Spain along with literary translation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to holding positions in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/languages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/medievalstudies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medieval Studies<\/a>, I collaborate closely with the Departments of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/theater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theater<\/a>, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/mfa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M.F.A. program<\/a>, and with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Global Education<\/a>.\u00a0I am also\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/michael-kidd-author.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">literary translator and creative writer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>B.A.\u00a0<em>magna cum laude,<\/em> Pomona College, 1990<\/li>\n<li>Ph.D., Cornell University, 1995<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Honors and Distinctions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Aldo &amp; Jean Scaglione Translation Prize, Modern Language Association, 2023<\/li>\n<li>Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Publication Prize, 2004<\/li>\n<li>American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2001<\/li>\n<li>Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1990-95<\/li>\n<li>Phi Beta Kappa, 1990<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Courses<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ENL 360: The Classical Tradition<\/li>\n<li>ENL 361: The Medieval World<\/li>\n<li>HUM 120: Medieval Life in 12th-Century Europe (a.k.a. &#8220;Medieval Connections&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>LAT 101-102: Beginning Latin I &amp; II<\/li>\n<li>SPA 111-112: Beginning Spanish I &amp; II<\/li>\n<li>SPA 211-212: Intermediate Spanish I &amp; II<\/li>\n<li>SPA 248: Spanish and Latin American Culture through\u00a0Film<\/li>\n<li>SPA 295: Translation Theory and Practice<\/li>\n<li>SPA 311: Spanish Conversation and Composition<\/li>\n<li>SPA 312: Spanish Expression<\/li>\n<li>SPA 331: Spanish Civilization and Culture<\/li>\n<li>SPA 352-353: Survey of Spanish Literature I &amp; II<\/li>\n<li>SPA 354: Representative Hispanic Authors<\/li>\n<li>SPA 356: Latin American Literature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Selected Publications<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">BOOKS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hackettpublishing.com\/literature\/drama\/black-protagonists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Black Protagonists of Early Modern Spain: Three Key Plays in Translation<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>Hackett, 2023.\n<ul>\n<li>Co-winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mla.org\/content\/download\/192082\/file\/2024-Scaglione-Prize-for-a-Translation-of-a-Literary-Work-Press-Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>MLA&#8217;s Aldo &amp; Jean Scaglione Translation Prize.<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hackettpublishing.com\/lorca-four-key-plays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Lorca: Four Key Plays<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> Hackett, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/doi\/book\/10.3828\/9780856688966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Life&#8217;s a Dream\/La vida es sue\u00f1o<\/a><\/em><em>. <\/em>Aris and Phillips, 2011. Anthologized in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leejacobus.com\/the-bedford-introduction-to-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Bedford Introduction to Drama,<\/em>\u00a08e<\/a> (2018).<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/upcolorado.com\/university-press-of-colorado\/item\/1771-life-s-a-dream-i-la-vida-es-suecno-i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Life&#8217;s a Dream: A Prose Translation<\/a>. <\/em>UP of Colorado, 2004. Anthologized in the\u00a0<em>Bedford Introduction to Drama,<\/em>\u00a06e (2009).<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psupress.org\/books\/titles\/0-271-01912-3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stages of Desire: The Mythological Tradition in Classical and Contemporary Spanish Theater<\/a>.<\/em> Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures. Penn State UP, 1999.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/necessaryfiction.com\/researchnotes\/translationnotes\/consequences-of-color\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Consequences of Color: Translating Blackness in Three Early Modern Spanish Plays.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Necessary Fiction.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Presencia y ausencia de mitolog\u00eda cl\u00e1sica en las obras laicas de Lucas Fern\u00e1ndez.&#8221; <i>Homenaje al profesor Juan Antonio L\u00f3pez F\u00e9rez.<\/i> Ed. Luis Miguel Pino Campos and Germ\u00e1n Santana Henr\u00edquez. Madrid: Ediciones Cl\u00e1sicas, 2013. 419-26.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Del objeto al sujeto: fetichismo y autonom\u00eda en <em>El se\u00f1or de Pigmali\u00f3n<\/em> de Jacinto Grau.&#8221; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Mitos_cl%C3%A1sicos_en_la_literatura_espa%C3%B1o.html?id=fMMzYAAACAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mitos cl\u00e1sicos en la literatura espa\u00f1ola e hispanoamericana del siglo XX<\/a>.<\/em> Ed. Juan Antonio L\u00f3pez F\u00e9rez. Vol. 1. Madrid: Ediciones Cl\u00e1sicas, 2009. 275-85. 2 vols.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Queer Myth and the Fallacy of Heterosexual Desire: Luis Riaza&#8217;s <em>Medea es un buen chic<\/em>o (1981).&#8221; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Medeas.html?id=btIdAAAACAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medeas: versiones de un mito desde Grecia hasta hoy<\/a>. <\/em>Ed. Aurora L\u00f3pez and Andr\u00e9s Poci\u00f1a. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2002. 1059-71.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Fairest of Them All: Racial and Sexual Signification in V\u00e9lez de Guevara&#8217;s <em>Virtudes vencen se\u00f1ales<\/em>.&#8221; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/A_Society_on_Stage.html?id=JfwWAAAACAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Society on Stage: Essays on Spanish Golden Age Drama<\/a>. <\/em>Ed. Edward H. Friedman, H. J. Manzari, and Donald D. Miller. New Orleans: UP of the South, 1998. 117-32.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/discover\/10.2307\/474411?uid=3739736&amp;uid=2&amp;uid=4&amp;uid=3739256&amp;sid=21101601419053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Myth, Desire, and the Play of Inversion: The Fourteenth Eclogue of Juan del Encina<\/a>.&#8221; <em>Hispanic Review<\/em> 65 (1997): 217-36.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Libidinal Expression and Artistic Repression: Juan Timoneda&#8217;s <em>Tragicomedia llamada Filomena<\/em>.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Texto_Y_Espect%C3%A1culo.html?id=BMTSSAAACAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Texto y Espect\u00e1culo: Selected Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Golden Age Theatre Symposium (March 8-11, 1995) at the University of Texas, El Paso<\/em><\/a>. Ed. Jos\u00e9 Luis Su\u00e1rez Garc\u00eda. York, South Carolina: Spanish Literature Publications, 1996. 74-85.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/390422\/summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Performance of Desire: Acting and Being in Lope de Vega&#8217;s <em>El laberinto de Creta.<\/em><\/a>&#8221; <em>Bulletin of the Comediantes<\/em> 47 (1995): 21-36.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/discover\/10.2307\/3251104?uid=3739736&amp;uid=2&amp;uid=4&amp;uid=3739256&amp;sid=21101737649067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Triangular Desire and Sensory Deception in Francisco de la Cueva y Silva&#8217;s <em>Trajedia de Narciso<\/em><\/a>.&#8221; <em>MLN<\/em> 110 (1995): 271-83.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cervantesvirtual.com\/obra\/playing-with-fire--the-conflict-of-truth-and-desire-in-galdss-electra-0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Playing with Fire: The Conflict of Truth and Desire in Gald\u00f3s&#8217;s <em>Electra<\/em><\/a>.&#8221; <em>Anales Galdosianos<\/em> 29-30 (1994\/95): 105-20.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Laughing Matters: Reading, <em>Gusto<\/em>, and Narrative Entrapment in <em>Don Quixote<\/em>.&#8221; <em>Cervantes<\/em> 14.2 (1994): 27-39.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Favorite literary Quotes<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\">\u2014Virgil<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rapiebant me spectacula theatrica, plena\u00a0imaginibus miserarium mearum et fomitibus ignis mei.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\">\u2014St. Augustine<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Quid igitur, O mortales, extra petitis intra vos positam felicitatem?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\">\u2014Boethius<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>De los sos ojos tan fuertemientre llorando, tornava la cabe\u00e7a e\u00a0est\u00e1valos catando.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\">\u2014Poem of the Cid<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00bfQu\u00e9 pasado bien no es sue\u00f1o?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\">\u2014Pedro Calder\u00f3n de la Barca<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>La puerta del teatro no se cierra nunca.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\">\u2014Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/p>\n<p>Take one of my courses to learn more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a1Hola! Et salve! Before coming to Augsburg in 2008, I taught at St. Olaf, Macalester, Carleton, and the University of New Mexico. I love Augsburg&#8217;s urban location, its emphasis on global citizenship, and its unique Medieval Studies program. 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