Dian Fox

Professor Emerita of Hispanic Studies, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Departments/Programs

Romance Studies

Degrees

Duke University, Ph.D.
Duke University, M.A.
University of Oregon, B.A.

Expertise

early modern Spanish drama, poetry, prose, and cultural studies; women's, gender, and sexuality studies, masculinity studies

Profile

Professor Fox's field is Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature and culture, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality. Her latest book is _Hercules and the King of Portugal: Icons of Masculinity and Nation in Calderón's Spain_, forthcoming at the University of Nebraska Press.

Awards and Honors

Women's and Gender Studies Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Brandeis University, March 18, 2009: "Hercules and the Half-Blood Prince: Staging Masculinity and Nationalism in Early Modern Spain" (2009)

Hewlett Foundation Grant for participation in Women's Studies faculty seminar, Brandeis University (2001 - 2002)

Nomination, Bernard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, American Society for Theatre Research (1991)

Nomination, Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Modern Language Association (1991)

Council for International Exchange of Scholars Treaty Grant (1985 - 1986)

Federico de Onís Fellowship, Spanish Government (1984)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for recent Ph.D. recipients (1983)

Scholarship

Fox, Dian. "Gender Reveal: The Achilles/_Amadís_ Paradigm in María de Zayas's _Amar solo por vencer_." Hispanic Review (2022). (forthcoming)

Fox, Dian. "From King Sebastian of Portugal to Miguel de Cervantes and don Quijote: A Genealogy of Myth and Influence." MLN 135. 2 (2020): 387-408.

Fox, Dian. Hercules and the King of Portugal: Icons of Masculinity and Nation in Calderón's Spain. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

Fox, Dian. "Performing Masculinity, Nationalism, and Honour in Early Modern Spain: The Case of Calderón's _El pintor de su deshonra_." The Poetics of Masculinity in Early Modern Italy and Spain. Ed. Gerry Milligan and Jane Tylus. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. 304-19.

Dian Fox. "Some Thoughts on Editing, Translating, and Teaching _El médico de su honra_." Bulletin of the Comediantes 58. (2007): 421-34.

Fox,Dian. The Physician of His Honour / El médico de su honra, Pedro Calderón de la Barca. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxbow, 2007.

Fox,Dian. "_A secreto agravio, secreta venganza_ y `os filhos do Rei Sebastião'." La construcción de un personaje: el rey. Ed. Luciano Garcia Lorenzo. Madrid: Fundamentos, 2006

Fox,Dian. "'Otro aquí no se ve': Francisco de Aldana and Sublimations of Desire." Caliope 11. (2005): 65-85.

Fox,Dian. "" ` A mí, león?' Don Quijote, Don Domingo de Don Blas, and Manliness"." Studies in Honor of Denah Lida. Ed. Mary G. Berg and Lanin A. Gyurko. Potomac, Maryland: Scripta Humanistica, 2004. 123-31.

Fox,Dian. "_Fieras afemina Amor_ de Calderón y el hombre esquivo." Homenaje a Félix Martínez-Bonati. Santiago, Chile: Cuadernos Atenea, 2003. 212-21.

Fox,Dian. "'Notable sujeto!' Terms of Dismemberment in _El médico de su honra_." Bulletin of the Comediantes (2001): 197-216.

Fox,Dian. "'Qué bien sabéis persuadir!': Petrarch, Don Juan, and Ana Caro." Calíope (Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry) 35-51.

Fox,Dian. Refiguring the Hero: From Peasant to Noble in Lope de Vega and Calderón. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.

Fox,Dian. Kings in Calderón: A Study in Characterization and Political Theory. London: Tamesis, 1986.