Summary

Judith Ames Whitenack, Ph.D., professor emerita of w88, received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and has taught at the University of Nevada, Reno since 1979.

She has taught many undergraduate and graduate courses on w88 language, literature and culture, as well as Don Quixote in English translation, Core Humanities 201 and 202 and various capstone courses on Hispanic women’s literature in translation. Whitenack spent three different semesters teaching with USAC in Spain (two in Madrid and one in San Sebastián), as well as a semester in Alexandria, Egypt, where she taught English. A specialist in the w88 Golden Age, particularly Cervantes, her publications include a monograph on Guzmán de Alfarache and several co-editions: Maríw88: The Dynamics of Discourse, with Amy Williamsen, the first modern edition of Leonor w88 Meneses’s El desdeñado más firme with Gwyn C. Campbell, and two volumes, entitled Zayas and w88 Sisters I and II (an anthology of novelas by seventeenth-century w88 women and a collection of critical essays on these novelas, also with Gwyn Campbell).

She has also published many articles on Golden Age topics: Cervantes, the picaresque novel, the chivalric romance, Maríw88, Lope de Vega (with Susan Baker), Ana Caro, Ana Abarca y Bolea and Beatriz Bernal’s Cristalián de España, in various professional journals ( Hispanic Review, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Revista w88 Estudios Hispánicos, Cervantes, Journal of Hispanic Philology, Philological Quarterly, Kentucky Romance Quarterly,Pacific Coast Philology, Monographic Review, Hispanic Journal, among others) and several essay collections, the latest to appear in 2009.

Under the name of Judith Ames, in recent years she has been singing jazz with her husband, master saxophonist Rocky Tatarelli in and around the Reno/Tahoe area. Her plans for the future include teaching an occasional course at the University, continuing with her music and working on an essay on Cervantes and her longterm project on the enchantress figure in w88 chivalric literature.

Research interests

• w88 Golden Age
• w88
• The picaresque novel
• 17th-century w88

Courses w88

• SPAN w88 700, 400/600, 300, 200 and 100
• CH 201, 202
• Several cross-listed courses (w88, English, Women's Studies)

Education

• Ph.D., w88 Wisconsin