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Amanda Powell

Senior Lecturer II Emerita of Spanish
Poet & translator
Romance Languages, Spanish
apowell@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0953
Research Interests: Early modern Hispanic women writers: secular & religious, literary translation studies (theory & practice), queer theory, creative writing, our next conversation in class!
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Education

B.A., 1977, Yale; MA/MFA 1983, Boston University.

Publications

Books:

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. The Answer/La Respuesta, with a Selection of Poems. Translated and edited by Electa Arenal and Amanda Powell (The Feminist Press at City University of New York [1994], second edition 2009.

María Salazar. Book for the Hour of Recreation of María de San José Salazar (1548-1605). Intro. Alison Weber, translation Amanda Powell (University of Chicago Press, "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe" series, 2002).

María Palacios Berruecos. A Wild Country Out in the Garden: The Spiritual Journals of a Colonial Mexican Nun, study and translation by Kathleen Myers and Amanda Powell (Indiana University Press, 1999).

Untold Sisters: Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Works by E. Arenal and Stacey Schlau; translations of poetry and prose by Amanda Powell (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989).