Amy Borja, PhD

• PhD, Spanish Literature, University of Texas at Austin (2007)

Dissertation: The Structural and Thematic Integrity of Diego de San Pedro’s Cárcel de Amor

• M.A., Spanish, University of Northern Iowa, completed in Santiago de Compostela (1999)
• B.S., Secondary Education, Baylor University (1992)
• Lifetime Certification by State of Texas as Secondary Educator to teach Spanish and Business courses

• 2022-present            Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Dallas
• 2018-2019                Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Dallas
• 2015-2018                Assistant Professor, University of Dallas
• 2009-2015                Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Dallas,
• 2006-2009                Lecturer, University of North Texas
• 2005-2006                Teacher, Plano West Senior High School
• 1999-2006                Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin
• 1992-1999                Teacher, Plano ISD (Shepton and Jasper High Schools)

 

 

Courses Taught at UD

• First Year Spanish I (fall 2009, spring 2015)
• First Year Spanish II (spring 2010, spring 2015)
• Second Year Spanish I (spring 2012, fall 2012, spring 2013, fall 2013, spring
• 2014, fall 2014, fall 2015, spring 2016, fall 2017)
• Second Year Spanish II (fall 2010, spring 2011, fall 2011, fall 2016, spring 2018)
• Intensive Second Year Spanish I and II (spring 2016)
• Advanced Grammar and Composition (fall 2013)
• Spanish Peninsular Literary Tradition (spring 2012, spring 2014, fall 2014, fall 2017)
• Spanish American Poetry from Modernism to Present (fall 2010, spring 2013)
• Medieval Spanish Literature (spring 2011, fall 2016)
•    Spanish Golden Age Prose (fall 2009, spring 2014)
• Spanish Golden Age Theatre and Poetry (spring 2011, fall 2015)
• Cervantes: Don Quijote y las Novelas ejemplares (spring 2010, fall 2012, spring 2015, spring 2018)
•   Don Quixote (in English, taught through Comparative Literature program, spring 

2013)

Guest lecturer in Humanities program’s World Courses (Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque)

Courses Taught at the University of North Texas

• All lower division language courses
• Spanish Civilization
• Latin American Civilization
• Introduction to Spanish Literature
• Spanish Peninsular Literature from 1700-present

Dissertation: The Structural and Thematic Integrity of Diego de San Pedro’s Cárcel de Amor (defended fall of 2007)  

Shorter publications: “Una lectura cervantina de Concierto barroco.” El sol de los talleres: Estudios en homenaje a Stanislav Zimic. Ed. María Ángeles Fernández Cifuentes. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2014. 229-240.

• Presenter, “El (neo)barroco en “La araña” de Guadalupe Dueñas” 65th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, Nashville, TN, March 2018.                        
• Presenter, “Andrea Amooson’s Lunas de Atacama como bildungsroman y la de/construcción de la identidad” 64th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2017
• Keynote address, “El Quijote actualizado para el estudiante milenario” II Congreso de Español de Segunda Lengua, Cartago, Costa Rica, March 2017 
• Presenter, “La maternidad y el feminismo en los cuentos de Andrea Amasson” – SECOLAS, March 2016, Cartagena, Colombia
• Presenter and Panel Moderator, “El crimen organizado en Don Quijote” – Cervantes and the Mediterranean World, October, 2015, Austin, Texas
• Presenter, “Una lectura cervantina de Concierto barroco” – Don Quixote in the American West Conference, April, 2015, Denver, Colorado and Laramie, Wyoming
• Presenter, “Metafiction in Cárcel de Amor” – Illionois Medieval Association Conference, February, 2015, St. Louis, Missouri
• Presenter, “Reflections of Cervantes in Alejo Carpentier’s Concierto barroco”," SECOLAS, March, 2015, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Presenter, “The Incompatibility of Love and Honor in Diego de San Pedro’s Cárcel de Amor”, International Congress on Medieval Studies, May, 2009, Kalamazoo, Michigan