Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2002-Present) 

• Professor

• Email: mcdaniel@iup.edu

• Director of Dessy-Roffman Myth Collaborative

Education: 

• University of Pennsylvania (1998)

  • Ph.D. Romance Languages

    • Dissertation: The Quixote in Crisis: Peninsular and Hispanic American Rewritings in the Revolutionary Era (1790-1820).

• Ohio University

  • M.A., Spanish, June 1994.

    • Concentration in Peninsular Spanish and Hispanic American Literature

  • M.A., History, June 1994.

    • Concentration in Hispanic American History

Recent Publications: 

• “Mario/Elisa and Marcela: Scandal and Surprise in the 1901 Spanish Press”. Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. 45.1 (2020). Co-Written with Joyce Tolliver at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

• “Superficialidad, seriedad, passing y Los Intereses creados”. Hecho Teatral. 12 (2012). 43-61. Co-Written with Joyce Tolliver at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

• “La vergüenza de Don Álvaro”. Obscenidad, vergüenza, tabú: contornos y retornos de lo reprimido entre los siglos XVIII y XIX. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz. (2012). 311-321. Co-Written with Joyce Tolliver at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

• The Lazarillo Phenomena: Essays on the Adventures of a Classic Text. University of Bucknell Press. 2010. Co-edited with Reyes Coll-Tellechea, University of Massachusetts-Boston.

Recent Conferences:

• “Early Modern Sex and Gender in El andrógino”. 76th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conferece, April, 2023.

• Interview on Historias: The Spanish History Podcast, October 2021. Episode #39.

• “Catalina de Erauso and Defining the Pass in Early Modern Spain”. 74th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2021.

• “Closing the Door: The Spanish Press and the Matrimonio sin hombre”. 50th Meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. Universitat Pompeu Frabra, Barcelona, Spain. July 2019.

• “Fictionalizing the Pass in ‘La boda sin hombre’”. 22nd Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. Granada, Spain. June 2018.

Research and Teaching Interests: 

• Early Modern Spanish Prose Fiction, 19th Century Spanish Novel, Literature of the Spanish Civil War, Comparative Literature, Subjectivity Studies, “Passing” in Spanish Literature, Historicism.