Alena Robin
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Visual Art
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Ph.D. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico Office: UC 254 Extension: 81599 Email: arobin82@uwo.ca Office Hours: Monday 11:30-12:30pm, Wednesday 10:30-11:30am |
Areas of Interest
Latin American Art: Baroque, Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries;
Theories of Art and Artistic Literature in Spain and Latin America;
Historiography of Viceregal Painting in New Spain.
Publications
"V?a Crucis y series pasionarias en los virreinatos latinoamericanos,” Goya, 339, 2012, pp. 130-145.
“La Pasi?n de Cristo seg?n Jos? de Alc?bar (Museo de Arte Sacro, Chihuahua, M?xico,” Via Spiritus, Revista de Hist?ria da Espiritualidade e do Sentimento Religioso, 17, 2010, pp. 197-228. http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/9184.pdf
“El “Monte”: noticias de unos grupos escult?ricos para la capilla del Calvario de la ciudad de M?xico,” Encrucijada, Bolet?n del seminario de Escultura del Instituto de Investigaciones Est?ticas/ UNAM, a?o 1, n?m. 1, 2008, revista digital: http://www.esteticas.unam.mx/cactividades/actividades/revista/index.html
“Domingo Ferral y el V?a Crucis de la ciudad de M?xico,” Atas do IV Congresso Internacional do Barroco ?bero-Americano, Belo Horizonte, Editora C/Arte, 2008, pp. 1287-1302.
“El Museo nacional de la Muerte,” UIC. Foro multidisciplinario de la Universidad Intercontinental, no 7, enero-marzo, 2008, pp. 48-53.
“The Wound on Christ’s Back in New Spain,” RACAR (Revue d’art canadienne/Canadian Art Review), XXXII, 1-2, 2007, pp. 79-93.
“El retablo de Xaltoc?n, las Im?genes de Jer?nimo Nadal y la Monja de ?greda,” Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Est?ticas, no. 88, 2006, pp. 53-70.
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Recent Conference Papers
“The Enr?quez Passion Imagery and the Portrayal of Pain in Eighteenth Century Mexico,” The Renaissance Society of America, April4-6, 2013, San Diego, California, forthcoming.
In collaboration with Luz Andrea ?vila Becerril, “Teatralidad de Semana Santa en Am?rica latina en tres viajeros decimon?nicos,” Teatro y fiesta popular y religiosa, International conference, Grupo de Investigacion Siglo de Oro, Cusco, Peru, June 6, 2012.
“Al margen de la tradici?n pict?rica novohispana: Los hermanos Enr?quez,” Simposio Internacional de Barroco Iberoamericano, Sevilla, Spain, April 16, 2012.
“El V?a Crucis en la Nueva Espa?a de los siglos XVII y XVIII: Entre espect?culo y actuaci?n,” Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Lisbon (Portugal), July 2, 2011.
“Performance y V?a Crucis en la Nueva Espa?a de los siglos XVII y XVIII,” Contrapuntos Transatl?nticos: El Barroco en el Mundo Lus?fono e Hispano, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), May 19, 2011.
“V?a Crucis de pintura e im?genes de bulto: reflexiones sobre la complementariedad de una devoci?n,” 2? Congreso Internacional sobre Escultura Virreinal, IIE/ UNAM, Puebla (Mexico), October 22, 2010.
“Merchants and the Way of the Cross of Mexico City,” Universities Art Association of Canada, Annual Congress, Guelph, October 16, 2010.
“V?a Crucis de pintura e im?genes de bulto,” Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, October 8, 2010.
“Painted Series of the Ways of the Cross in Viceregal Latin American,” Religion in the Hispanic Baroque, Liverpool, May 13, 2010.
“Un V?a Crucis de 15 estaciones (Museo del Convento de los Descalzos, Lima),” Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), June 13 2009.
“Alexandro Favi?n y el Nazareno desnudo del Hospital de Jes?s,” 1? Congreso Internacional sobre Escultura Virreinal, IIE, UNAM, Oaxaca (Mexico), November 12 2008.
“Towards a ‘Franciscanization’ of Space: Mexico City’s Way of the Cross,” Midwest Art History Society, Chicago, April 3 2008.
“El V?a Crucis de la ciudad de M?xico y los avatares del tiempo,” Latin American Studies Association, Montr?al, September 5 2007.
“Mexico City’s First Way of the Cross,” Renaissance Society of America, Miami, March 24 2007.
“Domingo Ferral y el V?a Crucis de la ciudad de M?xico,” IV Congreso Internacional de Barroco Iberoamericano, Ouro Preto (Brazil), November 1 2006.
“The Wound on Christ’s Back and the Inquisition,” College Art Association, Boston, February 25 2006.
“The Body of Christ in New Spain,” Universities Art Association of Canada, Victoria, November 11 2005.
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Conference Session Organizer and/or Chair
"Art in Spain, Portugal and the Iberian America (ca. 1600-1810),” organizer, Universities Art Association of Canada, Annual Conference, Montreal, November 3, 2012.
“Latin American Art I,” and “Latin American Art II,”Universities Art Association of Canada, Annual Congress, Ottawa, October, 27-29, 2011.
“Arte Virreinal I: Circulaci?n de ideas y obras,” and “Arte Virreinal II: Temas, personajes y coleccionismo,” Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, October 6-9, 2010.
“Latin American Art I,” and “Latin American Art II,”Universities Art Association of Canada, Annual Congress, Edmonton, October 23-24, 2009.
Session co-organizer with M?nica Dom?nguez (University of Delaware) and chair: “Modelos, sujetos y subalternos en el arte colonial iberoamericano,” Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), June 11-14, 2009.
“Imagen y narraci?n en el mundo Ib?rico del Barroco,” Asociaci?n canadiense de Hispanistas, Ottawa, May 23-26, 2009.
“Art in Spain, Portugal and the Iberian America (ca. 1600-1810),” Universities Art Association of Canada, Annual Congress, Toronto, November 6-8, 2008.
“Transformaci?n y cambios del espacio en la arquitectura de la Nueva Espa?a en el siglo XIX,” Latin American Studies Association, Montr?al, September 5-8, 2007.
Courses Being Taught
University of Western Ontario
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Undergraduate Courses:
SP2210/ Comparative Literatures and Cultures2293/ Visual Arts 3394, The Work of Art and its Texts
SP3501, Hispanic Visual Arts and Texts
SP3380/ CLC3391/ VA3392, Baroque Art in Latin America
SP3370, Artistic Literature of the Hispanic Baroque
SP3370, Latin American Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries
SP4403, Latin American City: Past and Present
Graduate Course:
SP9651, Migration and Ethnic Relations in Colonial Latin American Art (ca. 1520-1810)
SP9653, Historiography of New Spanish Painting
SP9652, Sacred Images and Places of Worship
SP9629, Artistic Literature of the Hispanic Baroque