Personal Info

E-mail: geraldine.hazbun(at)mod-langs.ox.ac.uk; dean(at)st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 284542

Web Link: http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/spanish

Special Responsibilities: Dean, Adviser to Junior Members

Academic Background:

MA (Hons) Modern and Medieval Languages (Churchill College, University of Cambridge, 1998-2002); MPhil European Literature (University of Cambridge, 2002-03); PhD Medieval Spanish Literature (University of Cambridge, 2003-06); Tutor in Spanish at St Anne’s, University Lecturer in Medieval Spanish Literature, Sub-Faculty of Spanish (2005-present).

Teaching Interests:

Undergraduate: Prelim literature and translation; FHS Medieval Papers VI and IX; Golden Age theatre; Special Subject XII, 'The Literature and Culture of al-Andalus'; Extended and Bridge Essays with medieval and Golden Age components.

Graduate: M.St option on 'Myth, History, and the Construction of Identity in Medieval Iberia'; medieval Spanish literature (particularly thirteenth century); epic poetry, historiography, mester de clerecía.

Research Interests:

My main research interests are in medieval Spanish poetry, particularly epic, mester de clerecía, and the romancero, and vernacular historiography, especially the chronicles of Alfonso X. I am currently interested in collective identity formation and its ideological tensions as represented in medieval and Golden-Age literary texts and am at present working on a study of collective memory in medieval Spanish poetry.

Selected Publications:

Books:

Geraldine Coates, Treacherous Foundations: Betrayal and Collective Identity in Early Spanish Epic, Chronicle, and Drama (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2009)

Geraldine Coates and Xon de Ros (eds.), A Companion to Spanish Women’s Studies (Tamesis, 2010)

Book Chapters:

Geraldine Coates, ‘Vida latente, literature viviente: Menéndez Pidal and the Romancero, Forty Years On’ (MIMSS, in conjunction with Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, Queen Mary, University of London, forthcoming)

Geraldine Coates, ‘Female Foundations in the Libro de Alexandre and Poema de Fernán González’ in Geraldine Coates and Xon de Ros (eds.), A Companion to Spanish Women’s Studies (Woodbridge: Tamesis, forthcoming 2010)

Geraldine Coates, ‘Lope, the Chronicle-Legend Plays, and Collective Memory’ in Alexander Samson and Jonathan Thacker (eds.), A Companion to Lope de Vega (London: Tamesis, 2008), 131-47

Geraldine Coates, ‘Non ay cosa escondida: secreto y revelación en el Libro de Buen Amor’, Actas del II Congreso Internacional homenaje a Alan Deyermond, Alcalá la Real 10-12 mayo 2007, ed. Louise Haywood and Francisco Toro, with the help of Francisco Bautista and Geraldine Coates (Alcalá la Real: Ayuntamiento 2008), 99–107

Geraldine Coates, ‘Et si desto menguas: decadencia imperial en la Estoria de España’ in Francisco Bautista (ed.), El relato historiográfico: textos y tradiciones en la españa medieval, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 48 (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, 2006), 103–21

Geraldine Coates, ‘¡Rey don Sancho, Rey don Sancho, no digas que no te aviso!: la representación de Vellido Dolfos en la leyenda de Sancho II’ in Robert Archer, Valdi Astvaldsson, Stephen Boyd and Michael Thompson (eds.), Antes y después del Quijote: en el cincuentenario de la Asociación de Hispanistas de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda (Valencia: Biblioteca Valenciana, 2005), 171–80

Journal Articles:

Geraldine Hazbun. ‘“Más avremos adelant”: Minaya Álvar Fáñez and the Heroic Vision in the Cantar de Mio Cid’ (forthcoming, Bulletin of Spanish Studies)

Geraldine Coates, ‘The 1541 Crónica general and the Historical Theatre of Juan de la Cueva and Lope de Vega: An Epic Debt’, Bulletin of the Comediantes, 60.1 (2008)

Geraldine Coates, ‘Endings Lost and Found in the Poema de Fernán González’, Hispanic Research Journal, 9 (2008)