The photos are about #nemla2025 in #nemlaphiladelphia I spoke about my recent writing about the complete works of #zoranealehurston #zombies and other resistance writers such as #jamesbaldwin through the philosophy of phenomenology #maryannpasdad
Thank you to NeMLA and to our panel chair for hosting wonderful sessions on Resurrecting Early Modern Women! #NeMLA2025 #earlymodern
screenshot of my presentation at the Northeastern Modern Language Association 2025 conference in Philadelphia. It uses a marbleized multicolored paper guard of an open book as background, and shows information on the presentation on black text boxes. The title of the presentation is Translational Bodies: Teresa de Ávila and Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda. My name and affiliation are shown below: Maíra Mendes Galvão, PhD Candidate – UMass Amherst. To the side, another text box saks NeMLA 2025 – Philadelphia, and Resurrecting Early Modern Women 2, which is the name of the session.
Screenshot of another slide from the presentation, also showing a bit of the following slide at the bottom. the slide says on top “paradoxes suprarracionales del amor divino”, a quote by Lapesa 1988 taken from from Girón-Negrón 2020. The page is divided into two halves: one with an ivory background and the other with a black background, and the division also helps visually enhance a list of oxymora. Each oxymoron has one member on the ivory side and another on the black side, expressing Teresa de Ávila’s treatment of those pairs as tensioned concepts. The pairs are Life/Death, Sweetness/Pain, Fruition/Suffering, Fire (flame of Christ)/Water (tears), Light (that blinds)/Darkness (that allows for illumination), Movement/Stillness, Subject/Object, Hunter/Prey, Outside/Inside. This part of the presentation was guided by the work of McCann 1968.
This is a screenshot of another slide that was shown toward the end of the presentation, juxtaposing an excerpt of a poem by Teresa de Ávila from 1571 (Vivo sin vivir en mí/Y tam alta vida espero/Que muero porque no muero) with part of a poem by Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda. BFL’s poem section reads: “Tiene arrebatada el alma/Allá donde amando anima./Y de aquel extasi quando/Parece que resuscita/Dize con razón que muere/Porque no perdió la vida./La fuerça de amor a vezes/Sueno, y reposo les quita/Y saliendo de su estancia/Buscan del cielo la vista./Quando serena la noche/Clara se descobre Cynthia/Bordando de azul, y plata/El postrer mobil que pisa./Quando al oro de su hermano/No puede tener envidia.” It shows the intertextuality in Ferreira de Lacerda’s text in a section where she writes on Discalced Carmelite devotion by imagining the daily goings on of the monks at the monastery of Santa Cruz do Buçaco in 17th-Century Portugal.
References: Blumczynski, Piotr. Experiencing Translationality: Material and Metaphorical Journeys. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. Cavendish, Margaret. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Philosophical Letters:, By Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53679/53679-h/53679-h.htm. Ferreira de Lacerda, Bernarda, and João (engr ). Bautista. Soledades de Buçaco por Doña Bernarda Ferreira Delacerda A las Religiosas Carmelitas Descalças del Convento de S. Alberto de Lisboa. En Lisboa: Per Mathias Rodrigues, 1634. Internet Archive, http://archive.org/details/wotb_8724068. Girón-Negrón, Luis. “«Ya, Ya Se Abren Las Flores»: La Lírica de Santa Teresa En La Historia Literaria de La Mística Cristiana.” Hispania Sacra, Jan. 2020. www.academia.edu, https://www.academia.edu/83863255/_Ya_ya_se_abren_las_flores_la_l%C3%ADrica_de_Santa_Teresa_en_la_historia_literaria_de_la_m%C3%ADstica_cristiana. Hegstrom, Valerie. “‘La Décima Musa Portuguesa’ and Her Soledades de Buçaco: Gendered Landscape Poetry Dedicated to the Nuns of Santo Alberto.” Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, vol. 22, no. 2, 2017, pp. 145–64. Kristeva, Julia. “The Passion According to Teresa of Avila.” Carnal Hermeneutics, edited by Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor, Fordham University Press, 2020, pp. 251–62. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823265916-017. McCann, Eleanor. “Oxymora in Spanish Mystics and English Metaphysical Writers.” Comparative Literature, vol. 13, no. 1, 1961, pp. 16–25. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1768676. Santos Guerrero, Julián. “Representation, Reappropriation: The Body of the Image in the Mystical Text of Teresa of Avila.” Filozofija i Drustvo, vol. 30, no. 1, 2019, pp. 6–18. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1901006S. Thell, Anne M. “‘Lady Phoenix’: Margaret Cavendish and the Poetics of Palingenesis.” Early Modern Women, vol. 11, no. 1, 2016, pp. 128–36.
Had a wonderful and fun time presenting yesterday at #NeMLA2025 in the Resurrecting Early Modern Women 2 session beautifully organized by Jennifer Topale. I loved the session’s presentation’s by Hannah Hicks on Cavendish, Sonja Andersen on Greiffenberg, and Trisha Gupta on Bahinabai.
If you're attending #NeMLA2025, come visit us in the book exhibit tomorrow, Sunday 3/9, where we'll be giving away our display copies to graduate students and contingent scholars between 9 a.m. and noon (limit one book per person)!
We are all set up at #NeMLA2025! Come visit us in the book exhibit if you're attending, or check out our virtual exhibit store for special discounts on books and journals: buff.ly/lRRkWtr
The Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art as seen from across the street.
A screenshot of the program of NeMLA 2025 session “Resurrecting Early Modern Women II”. It features presentations by Trisha Gupta, Maíra Mendes Galvão, Sonja Andersen, and Hannah Hicks.
arrived in Philadelphia yesterday for #NeMLA2025. traveled by train, my favorite mode of transportation, and am now looking forward to presenting today in the “Resurrecting Early Modern Women II” session.
Our Northeast Modern Language Association exhibit will open this afternoon. We hope you'll stop by the 5th floor ballroom to peruse our wonderful selection of books & journals from 21 publishers! #nemla2025
Excited for this roundtable tomorrow! Discussions of work by Samanta Schweblin, Octavia Butler, Helen Oyeyemi, and Prayaag Akbar + discussion of Grant Sputore’s film I Am Mother (2019) in which the reproductive body has been replaced by AI-controlled tech. #NeMLA2025
¡Hasta mañana, Philadelphia!
Me llena de orgullo poder contar con estas dos invitadas en #NeMLA2025. Espero que muchas personas vengan a verla. Nos vemos en Filadelfia.
