Lisette V. Balabarca-Fataccioli

I earned my Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures at Boston University. I hold a B.A. in Humanities with mention in Psychology, Linguistics and Literature from Universidad Católica del Perú. My academic field is early modern Hispanic studies and my research focuses on Morisco and Aljamiado literature. I study the texts produced by Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) during their final expulsion from Spain between 1609 and 1614. Currently, I'm working on a comparative study of religious polemics between Old Christians and Moriscos in 17th century Spain and Tunisia.

My Siena Experience

My Teaching Philosophy

Teaching allows me not only to discuss certain subjects or topics, but, more important, to encourage and develop critical and creative ways of thinking in my students. In this way it broadens academic knowledge and different perspectives on culture, diversity, language or politics.

What I Love About Siena

My Favorite Courses to Teach

My Professional Experience

Current Research

Articles & Book Reviews

• (Book Review) Infante, Catherine. The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain
  Journal is not in list - being petitioned
  2023
• (Book Review) Rocío Uchofen. Puentes/Bridges.
  Las Críticas
  2023
• De Granada al Nuevo Mundo: El sujeto conquistado en 'El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Colón', de Lope de Vega
  Journal is not in list - being petitioned
  2023
• (Book Review) Green-Mercado, Mayte. Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
  Symposium: A Quarterly Journal of Modern Literatures
  2021
• (Book Review) Tatiana Țîbuleac. El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes.
  Las Críticas
  2021
• Polémica anticristiana en el Norte de África: el caso de dos moriscos españoles del siglo XVII
  Transmodernity. Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World
  2020
• (Book Review) Fernanda Melchor, Temporada de Huracanes
  Las Críticas
  2018
• (Book Review) Barbara Fuchs, Larissa Brewer-García, and Aaron J. Ilika, Eds. and Trans. "The Abencerraje" and "Ozmín and Daraja": Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain
  Sixteenth Century Journal
  2016
• (Book Review) Carlos Villacorta Gonzáles. Alicia, esto es el capitalismo
  Narrativas: Revista de Narrativa Contemporánea en Castellano
  2016
• 'Toda obra loa y alaba a su Hacedor': de las transgresiones y subversiones del autor en 'La Lozana andaluza'
  Romance Notes
  2015
• (Book Review) Anne Marie Wolf. Juan de Segovia and the Fight for Peace. Christians and Muslims in the Fifteenth Century
  Sixteenth Century Journal
  2015
• El enemigo musulmán en 'El Abencerraje': Abindarráez, los moriscos y la personificación de la derrota
  e-Humanista
  2015
• 'Viaje de Turquía': la representación de los turcos en un diálogo del siglo XVI
  Hispania Félix:Revista hispano-rumana de cultura y civilización de los Siglos de Oro
  2011

Awards & Distinctions

•  “Spanish Muslims in North Africa during the Medieval and Early Modern Period.” Student: Hamzah Khiati (History ’21)
  
  Category: Teaching-Research
  Siena College - CURCA, 2020
• Project Title: “The Female Other: Moriscas and Muslim Women in Early Modern Spain” 
  Category: Research
  Siena College - COTFD, 2019
•  Project Title: “Anti-Christian Polemics in 17th century Spain: The case of Ibrahim Taybili” 
  
  Category: Research
  Siena College - COTFD, 2017
• CCHS-CSIC (Center for Human and Social Sciences-Council for Scientific Research), Visiting Researcher for the Conversions, Overlapping Religiosities, Polemics and Interactions: Early Modern Iberia and Beyond (CORPI) Project. Madrid. (September 2017 – March 2018.)
  
  Category: Research
  CCHS - CSIC (Center for Human and Social Sciences-Council for Scientific Research), 2017
• Information Literacy Faculty Development Grant
  Category: Teaching
  Standish Library, Siena College, 2016
• Information Literacy Faculty Development Grant
  Category: Teaching
  Standish Library, Siena College, 2015
• Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
  Category: Research
  COTFD, Siena College, 2015
• Summer Fellowship for Curriculum Diversification
  Category: Teaching
  DAC, Siena College, 2014
• NEH Summer Stipend Competition
  Category: Research
  Siena College, 2013
• Service Learning Grant
  Category: Teaching
  ACE, Siena College, 2013
• Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
  Category: Research
  COTFD, Siena College, 2013
•  Barcelona (Spain)
  Category: Research
  National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 2012
• Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
  Category: Research
  COTFD, Siena College, 2012
• Humanities Grant for Research and Travel
  Category: Research
  Colby College, 2008
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  Category: Other
  Boston University, 2001
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  Category: Research
  Boston University, 2001
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  Category: Other
  Boston University, 1998
•  1997-2005
  Category: Other
  Boston University, 1997
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  Category: Teaching
  Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana-Spain, 1996

Books & Book Chapters

• Song and Social Change in Latin America
  Lexington Books
  2013

Presentations

• Soliloquios, travestismo, una cabeza artificial y una representación teatral morisca: el caso de la 'Comedia pastoral de Torcato'
  2022
  Society for the Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Teaching Transatlantic Connections among Spanish-Speaking Countries
  2022
  LELACS (Lake Erie Latin American and Caribbean Studies), Saratoga Springs, New York
• Spanish Muslims in Early Modern Iberia: The Construction of an Image through Spanish Christian Chronicles
  2021
  Renaissance Society of America, Virtual, Virtual
• Apuntes sobre una pieza teatral morisca: el caso de la Comedia pastoril de Torcato
  2020
  el taller Summer Institute, NYU, Virtual, Virtual
• La inversión de los roles de género en una pieza del siglo XVI: el caso de la Comedia pastoril de Torcato
  2020
  AHCT (The Association of Hispanic Classical Theatre), Virtual, Virtual
• La escritura religiosa en el exilio norteafricano de los moriscos españoles
  2019
  XX Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Jerusalem, Israel
• La musa, la pluma y Orfeo: un poeta morisco en el exilio norteafricano
  2019
  Society for the Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Irvine, California
• Moriscos en el exilio y polémica anticristiana: El caso de Ibrahim Taybili y Muhammad Alguazir
  2019
  Memory and Polemics: A Symposium on Moriscos, Syracuse, New York
• The Female Other: Moriscas and Muslim Women in Early Modern Spain.
  2019
  Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, Canada-Ontario
• The Female Other: Muslim Women in Early Modern Spain
  2019
  Siena School of Liberal Arts Faculty Research Symposium, Loudonville, New York
• Apuntes para un estudio de las influencias literarias españolas en el morisco Ibrahim Taybili y su poema anti-cristiano
  2017
  XVIIIè Congrès International d'Études Morisques, Tunis, Tunisia
• Iberian and Transatlantic Subjects in Early Modern Spain: The Case of Lope de Vega's El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Colón
  2017
  Spaces of Confrontation: 3rd International Conference in Transatlantic Studies, Boston, Massachusetts
• Religious Polemics in the 17th Century and the Expulsion of Moriscos from Spain
  2017
  Siena COTFD Friday Forum, Loudonville, New York
• Al-Andalus in the Eyes of a 16th Century Spanish Crypto-Muslim
  2016
  American Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• De Granada al Nuevo Mundo: El sujeto conquistado en La famosa comedia del Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Colón, de Lope de Vega
  2016
  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky
• Poetry and Religious Polemics: Spanish Christian Influences on a Morisco Author in Exile
  2016
  Middle East Studies Association, Boston, Massachusetts
• The Conquered Subject in Lope de Vega's La famosa comedia del Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Colón
  2016
  Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, Bruges, Belgium
• The Representation of the Defeated Moriscos through the Portrayal of El Abencerraje's Abindarráez
  2015
  Middle East Studies Association, Denver, Colorado
• Was Mediterranean Politics Determined by Religion?
  2015
  MEH/Med-Middle Eastern History/Mediterranean, Denver, Colorado
• Épica y polémica religiosa en la Expulsión de los moros de España de Gaspar de Aguilar
  2015
  Society for the Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Amherst, Massachusetts
• Author's Transgressions and Subversive Characters in Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman
  2014
  Renaissance Society of America, New York, New York
• Connections between Old and New Christians: The Influence of Spanish Literary Works on Morisco Writers
  2014
  Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Female Empowerment through Artistic Disobedience: The Case of Mujeres Creando
  2014
  The Second Annual Capital District Feminist Studies Conference, Loudonville, New York
• La polémica anti-islámica tras la expulsión de los moriscos de España
  2014
  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky
• Anti-Moorish Polemics in Early Modern Spain: The Testimony of Father Pedro Aznar-Cardona
  2013
  COTFD Faculty Research Series, Siena College, Loudonville, New York
• Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Muslims in Sixteenth Century Spain: Towards the Construction of an Image
  2013
  Renaissance Society of America, San Diego, California
• La poesía al servicio de la polémica religiosa y la auto-legitimación de un autor morisco desde su exilio norteafricano
  2013
  Society for the Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Charlotte, Virginia
• Expulsados: el problema de la identidad morisca a la luz de la 'Contradicción de los catorce artículos de la fe cristiana' de Ibrahim Taybili
  2012
  NEMLA (Northeastern Modern Language Association), Rochester, New York
• La caída de Granada y la pérdida del Islam: el testimonio morisco del Mancebo de Arévalo
  2012
  Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Realidad vs ficción: contradicciones en la representación de los hispano-musulmanes en la literatura del siglo XVI
  2012
  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky