About

Carmen Hsu is a Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with affiliate faculty positions in Asian Studies and International and Area Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000. Her scholarly inquiries focus on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature, with an emphasis on pushing the boundaries of Hispanic Studies and exploring texts traditionally considered canonical. Her research delves into areas previously ignored by literary scholars, proposing innovative approaches to early modern Spanish literature and cultures. She investigates the dialogue between the conception of Asia and its representation in European consciousness, analyzing a broad body of texts to demonstrate the interconnectedness of European, Asian, and American cultural and linguistic communities. Her work aims to reinterpret European and Asian texts within a larger cultural context, emphasizing cross-cultural exchanges and representations.

Research topics

• Humanities
• Art
• Philosophy
• History

Selected publications

• Del bagoong o ‘pescado dañado’ y el gusto higiénico de los filipinos en los Sucesos (México, 1609) de Antonio de Morga

  UNC Libraries · 2024-10-12

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  El presente trabajo estudia la representación que hace el oidor sevillano Antonio de Morga de dos gustos de los habitantes del archipiélago asiático en los Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (México, 1609). Analiza cómo se manifiesta la actitud de Morga hacia los filipinos a través de su presentación de las costumbres culinaria e higiénica de aquellos. Se arguye que, a pesar de su reconocida imparcialidad, la imagen filipina de Morga revela un sistema de conceptos destinados a esquematizar cualquier mundo desconocido y no cristiano.

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• Del <i>bagoong</i> o ‘pescado dañado’ y el gusto higiénico de los filipinos en los <i>Sucesos</i> (México, 1609) de Antonio de Morga

  Bulletin of Hispanic Studies · 2024-01-01

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  El presente trabajo estudia la representación que hace el oidor sevillano Antonio de Morga de dos gustos de los habitantes del archipiélago asiático en los Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (México, 1609). Analiza cómo se manifiesta la actitud de Morga hacia los filipinos a través de su presentación de las costumbres culinaria e higiénica de aquellos. Se arguye que, a pesar de su reconocida imparcialidad, la imagen filipina de Morga revela un sistema de conceptos destinados a esquematizar cualquier mundo desconocido y no cristiano.

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• Reviews of Books

  Bulletin of Spanish Studies · 2024

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  • History
  • Art
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• : <i>Vida y muerte de San Cristóbal</i>

  Renaissance Quarterly · 2023-12-01

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  Vida y muerte de San Cristóbal. Juan de Benavides. Ed. Anthony J. Grubbs. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 542. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2020. 90 pp. $60. - Volume 76 Issue 4

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• 6. Shipwreck, Exile, and Political Critique in Fernán Méndez Pinto (1631) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez

  Rutgers University Press eBooks · 2022-01-14

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• Shipwreck, Exile, and Political Critique in Fernán Méndez Pinto (1631) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez

  Bucknell University Press eBooks · 2022-01-14

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• Del norte de Europa al sur de Asia Oriental

  2021

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  • Humanities
  • Humanities
  • Art

  A web of diverse circumstances has led to the outbreak of the Flanders War, which started during the last decade of the sixteenth century and ended with the independence of Holland in 1659. This fight of the Low Countries against the Spanish monarchy in the European continent was closely linked to the presence of the Dutch in the Pacific. Based on four news pamphlets about the naval conflicts between the Spaniards and Dutch during the period of the Twelve Years ' Truce (1609-1621), this article studies the

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• On the figure of Trampagos in El rufian viudo by Cervantes

  UNC Libraries · 2021-08-19

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  This paper proposes to examine the figure of rufián in El rufián viudo and Cervantes’ debts to the poems by Rodrigo de Reinosa, Álvaro de Solana, and Juan Hidalgo. The article also intends to show that, in addition to the conventional characteristics of the type of rufián that one finds in Trampago, there are also imprints of numerous literary traditions – most significantly, Garcilaso’s eclogues. The presence of Garcilaso not only introduces a change of sensibility and new themes to Cervantes’ entremés , but it also contributes to the creation of a character that transcends the literary formula.

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• MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Don Quijote de la Mancha. The Definitive Spanish Edition for Students. The 2019 Dictionary Edition. Edited, with notes, by Tom Lathrop. Newark: Cervantes & Co. 2019. xliv + 1072 pp; 55 illustrations.

  Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) · 2020-01-01

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• Reviews of Books

  Bulletin of Spanish Studies · 2020-03-15

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Frequent coauthors

• Aroa Algaba Granero

  Universidad de Burgos

  2 shared

• Lesley K. Twomey

  Northumbria University

  1 shared

• Miguel Ramos Parra

  1 shared

• Ana Rueda

  1 shared

• Paulo de Medeiros

  University of Warwick

  1 shared

• David A. Messenger

  University of South Alabama

  1 shared

• Alda Blanco

  San Diego State University

  1 shared

• Mark P. Del Mastro

  College of Charleston

  1 shared

Labs

• Carmen Hsu LabPI

Awards & honors

• Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruct…
• Schwab Academic Excellence Award, Institute for the Arts and…
• Graduate Student Faculty Mentoring Award, Department of Roma…
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and National Endowment for the H…
• Edward Clarence Evelyn Dyason Research Fellowship for projec…