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Romance Languages
Olin Center
180 Packard Avenue
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
Phone: (617) 627-5546
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Katherine Risse
Part-Time Lecturer in Spanish

Degrees: Ph.D., Boston College

Selected Publications/Conferences:

• “Revising a Matrimonial Life: An Alternative to the Conduct Book in María de Agreda’s Mística ciudad de Dios.” Modern Language Notes, Spring 2008.
   
• “Strategy of a Provincial Nun: Sor María’s Response.” CiberLetras 17 (2007)
   
• “Wives, Mothers and Widows on Instruction.” The Fourteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium: The Rule of Women. The University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., February 17-19, 2005.
   
• “Catarina de San Juan and the China Poblana: Spiritual Humility and Civil Obedience.” Confluencia 18 (2003): 70-80.
   
• “Following the Procession: Dialogue with the Significant Other in Elena Poniatowska’s ‘Hasta no verte Jesús mío.’” Romance Review 7 (1997): 45-52.

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