Christi Ivers Ph.D

Christi Ivers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Spanish, Lower-Division Coordinator of Spanish, Modern Languages

Phone: (972) 721-5229

Email: civers@udallas.edu

Office: Anselm #105

Dr. Christi Ivers holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Kansas. Her dissertation examines visual and verbal allusions to Christ’s Passion in devotional and secular texts in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Iberian world. Her research interests include devotional literature in Castilian, Catalan, French, and Latin as well as print culture and book history.

  • Ph.D., Spanish Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Kansas
  • M.A., Spanish Literature, University of Kansas
  • B.A., English, Drake University
  • B.S.E., Drake University
  • Assistant Professor of Spanish

  • Second-Year Spanish I
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    Second-Year Spanish II
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    Advanced Composition and Grammar
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    Cervantes: Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares
  •  
    Great Works in the Renaissance and Baroque

Late Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literature, Book History and Print Culture, Devotional Books and Practices

“Latin Fragments and Catalan Verses: Printing Linguistic and Devotional Metonymy in La dolorosa passio del nostre redemptor Jesuchrist (Barcelona, 1518).” Forthcoming in Romance Quarterly, anticipated publication July 2022. Refereed Journal.
doi:10.1080/08831157.2022.2057207

“Reading Death in the Digital Mode: The Dance of Death and Manuscript T of the Libro de buen
amor
.” Hispanic Journal, vol. 41, no. 1, Spring 2020. Refereed Journal.

“Risky Collaboration in Fifteenth-Century Printing and Cárcel de amor.” La corónica: A Journal of
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures and Cultures
, Spring 2015. Refereed Journal. doi:10.1353/cor.2015.0013
  • "From Muslims' Looms to Christian Tombs: Andalusi Textiles as Markers of Christian Sanctity in the Vida de Santa Oria."  57th International Congress on Medieval Studies, via Zoom, 9-14 May 2022.  Refereed Conference. 
  • "Locating Ibero-Medievalists in Current Research and Teaching: La corónica Commons's 'Bibliography of Race and Visibility in Medieval Iberia.'" Modern Language Association Annual Convention, via Zoom, 7-10 January 2021. Refereed Conference.
  • "Nebrija's Choice: Catholic Orthodoxy over Printing Expertise in Sixteenth-Century Granada." South Atlantic Modern Language Association, via Accelevents, 13-15 November 2020. Refereed Conference.
  • "Printing Individual and Collective Catholic Identity: Catalan and Latin Linguistic Contact in La dolorosa passio del nostre redemptor Jesucrist (Barcelona, 1518)." Cancelled Papers Virtual Conference, Hall Center for the Humanities, Univ. of Kansas, via Zoom, 24-25 April 2020. (Paper originally accepted to the 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan Univ., 7-10 May 2020, cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic). Refereed Conference.