Stephanie Schmidt

PhD

Stephanie Schmidt.

Stephanie Schmidt

PhD

Stephanie Schmidt

PhD

Scholarly Interests

Colonial Latin American literature; Nahuatl Studies; Early Modern Spanish literature

Education

  • PhD, Stanford University
  • MA, New York University
  • BA, Scripps College

Selected Publications

  • Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain: Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives. University of Texas Press, Forthcoming 2025.
  • “Nahuas Stage Imperial Conquest: The Destruction of Jerusalem in New Spain,” Ethnohistory, 71.3 (July 2024): 321–352.
  • “Christian Allegory on the Northern Frontier of New Spain: González de Eslava’s Coloquio quinto,” Colonial Latin American Review 33.1 (March 2024): 57-68.
  • “Christian and Nahua Arts of Devotion: A Song of the Nativity from the Cantares Mexicanos.” Korpus 21 3.7 (January 2023): 89-104.
  • “Conceiving of the End of the World: Christian Doctrine and​ Nahua Perspectives in the Sermonary of Juan Bautista Viseo.” Ethnohistory 68.1 (January 2021): 125-144.
  • “Cervantes and His Sources: on Virtue and Infamy in La Numancia.” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 39.2 (Fall 2019): 111-137.
  • “World Time and Imperial Allegory in a Nahuatl Manuscript on the Final Judgment.” Writing in the End Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World, special issue of Hispanic Issues Online 23 (2019): 55-71.

Courses Taught

  • SPA 509: Seminar in Latin American Colonial Literature
  • SPA 304: Early Spanish American Literature
  • SPA 328: Spanish American Culture and Civilization
  • SPA 210: How to Read a Spanish Text