Stephanie Schmidt
PhD
Associate Professor of Spanish
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, 2024.
- “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