Connie L. Scarborough
Professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Texas Tech University
and co-director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at TTU
Ph.D. 1983 University of Kentucky
Primary research: Medieval Spanish literature, especially the works of Alfonso X, Libro de buen
amor, and Celestina
Recent books:
Editor, Revisiting Convivencia in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. Juan de la Cuesta, 2014.
Inscribing the Environment: Ecocritical Approaches to Medieval Spanish Literature. De
Gruyter. March 2013.
Co-editor (with Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona): Crime and Punishment in the Middle
Ages and Early Modern Period. De Gruyter, 2012.
A Holy Alliance: Alfonso X's Political Use of Marian Poetry. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la
Cuesta, 2009.
Recent Articles:
“‘Fui a provar la sierra e fiz loca demanda’: Wilderness in the Libro de buen amor.” Lemir 18
(2014): 1-12.
“Creating Her Own Misfortune: Melibea in La Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea. Medieval
Perspectives 29 (2014): 27-45.
“Fronteras Intelectuales: Fernando III y Alfonso X.” Encrucijada de culturas: Alfonso X y su
tiempo. Sevilla: Tres Culturas, 2014. 393-402.
“Seeing and Believing: The gaze in the Vida de Santa María Egipçiaca.” La Corónica 42.1
(2013): 299-319.
“The Moors in Thirteenth-Century Spain: ‘They are Us!’.” East Meets West in the Middle Ages
and Early Modern Times. Ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2013.
505-21.
“Speaking of Celestina: Soliloquy and Monologue in the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea.”
Celestinesca 36 (2012): 207-34.
“Theatrical Techniques in the Miniatures of the Cantigas de Santa Maria.” Chapter in Essays in
Homage to John Esten Keller. Ed. Roger Tinnell. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2012.
241-64.
“A Rare Case of a Dragon in Medieval Spanish Literature.” Medieval Perspectives 26 (2011
[2012]): 7-25.
“Women as Victims and Criminals in Las Siete Partidas” in Crime and Punishment in the
Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. Berlin and New York: Gruyter, 2012. 225-46.
Editor-in-chief, Spanish division, Rocky Mountain Review
Invited lecturer: Universidad de Sevilla (Fundación de las tres culturas). University of Surrey,
UK, University of Durham, UK
+ Over 100 conference presentations