Department of Modern Languages
Fort Hays State University
Hays, Kansas
cobrady@fhsu.edu
Fort Hays State University
Hays, Kansas
cobrady@fhsu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2017
Dissertation: Playing the Court: Court Theater During the Reign of Carlos II of Spain (1661-1700)
Committee: Núria Silleras-Fernández (chair), John Slater, Andrés Prieto, Juan Herrero-Senés, David Glimp
M.A. Teaching Spanish Language and Culture to Non-native Speakers, Modern Language Center, University of Granada, Spain, 2017
M.A. Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona, Tucson, 2012
B.A. Spanish, Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon, Eugene, 2009
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2018-Present Assistant Professor of Spanish Online, Department of Modern Languages, Fort Hays State University
2017-2018 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Fort Hays State University
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
In press “Political Concerns Represented Through Court Entertainment: La estatua de Prometeo and the Power Struggle Between
Queen Regent Mariana and Don Juan José of Austria.” Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern
Monarchy, edited by Jonathan Spangler, Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues, and Manuela Santos Silva, Palgrave
MacMillan, 2019.
Articles in Preparation
“Letters to Mariana: Royal Council on Court Drama and the Formation of a Disabled Prince”
“Spectator Individuality in Royal Drama: Maintaining the Self in Mass Consumption”
Manuscripts in Preparation
Playing the Court: Royal Identity and Baroque Drama
AWARDS AND HONORS
2016 Best Should Teach Silver Award, University of Colorado, Boulder
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2015 Hispanex Grant, Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport, Spain, €3000
2015 Summer Fellowship, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder, $2500
2015 Language Study Grant, Center for Western Civilization, University of Colorado, Boulder, $1000
2015 Subsidies Travel Grant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder, $400
2012–2017 Fellowship, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder
2011–2012 Fellowship Recipient: Digital Humanities Project, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona
2010–2012 Fellowship for a Graduate Assistantship in Teaching. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona
INVITED TALKS
2016 La mujer noble y el arte real: la influencia de Mariana de Austria en la obra teatral, Department of Literature, Complutense
University of Madrid.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2020 Letters from the Archives: The Disabilities of Carlos II of Spain as Scapegoat for the Regency Council’s Objection to Royal
Theater, Disease and Disability, Being Human, The Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention, Seattle, WA,
January 9-12.
2019 Succession Solutions? The Nephew-King Paradigm in Bances Candamo’s El esclavo en grillos de oro and La piedra filosofal,
Performance, Royalty and the Court, 1500-1800, The Society for Court Studies, London, England, April 11-12.
2017 Shared Agency and Authority in Seventeenth-Century Royal Theater Productions: The Court in Madrid, Annual Symposium
on Golden Age Theater, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX, April 20-22.
2016 Political Influences on Madrid's Courtly Theater: The Interweaving of Habsburg Succession Concerns in Bances Candamo's
Political Trilogy (1692-1693), Dialogues of Power: Political (Re)presentations in the Arts, St. Andrews University, Scotland,
October 27-29.
2016 Where the Loyalties Lie: The Tangled Web Between Mariana of Austria, Don Juan of Austria, and Carlos II of Spain, Kings
and Queens V: Dynastic Loyalties, Royal Studies Network, Clemson University, Greenville, SC, April 8-9.
2016 Political Tensions in the 1670s: La estatua de Prometeo and the Politics of the Court, Annual Symposium on Golden Age
Theater, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX, March 31-April 2.
2015 Political Concerns as Represented Through Court Entertainment: La estatua de Prometeo and the Power Struggle Between
Queen Consort Mariana and John of Austria, Kings and Queens IV: Dynastic Changes and Legitimacy, Royal Studies
Network, University of Lisbon, Portugal, June 23-27.
2015 Los epígrafes de la segunda parte del Quijote, Don Quixote in the American West: A Fourth Centenary Celebration
(1615-2015), The University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, April 23-26.
2014 More than Mirror Neurons: A Look Beyond the Biological Process and Empathy Production, Annual Symposium on Golden
Age Theater, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX, February 27-March 1.
2011 El Cervantes progresivo y pre-feminista, Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature,
Language, and Culture, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, February.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fort Hays State University
Beginning Spanish I (fall 2017, spring 2018, summer 2018 online)
Beginning Spanish II (fall 2017, spring 2018)
Topics in Foreign Languages (spring 2018)
Translation and Interpretation I (fall 2017, spring 2019 online)
Translation and Interpretation II (spring 2018, summer 2018 online, fall 2019 online)
Latin American Civilization (spring 2018)
Independent Study (fall 2017, spring 2018, summer 2018)
University of Colorado, Boulder
Beginning Spanish II (summer 2014, spring 2017, fall 2018)
Second Year Spanish I (fall 2018)
Second Year Spanish II (fall 2013)
Advanced Spanish Language Skills (7 sections; fall 2012- spring 2016)
Spanish Conversation (fall 2016)
Literary and Cultural Analysis in Spanish (fall 2018)
University of Arizona
First Semester Spanish (fall 2011, spring 2012)
Second Semester Spanish (fall 2010, spring 2011, summer 2012)
Third Semester Spanish (summer 2011)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2013 Research Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder
2013 Book Proofing. Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire. Edited by John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada, and
José Pardo-Tomás, Ashgate Publishing, 2014.
DEPARTMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Curriculum Development Consulting, Department of Modern Languages, Fort Hays State University, 2018-2019
Faculty Senate, Department of Modern Languages, Fort Hays State University, 2018
Faculty Search Committee Member, Department of Modern Languages, Fort Hays State University, 2018
Minor Advisor, Department of Modern Languages, Fort Hays State University, 2017-2018
Graduate Student Mentor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona, 2013-2015
President and co-founder, Graduate Association from Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of
Arizona, 2011-2012
Travel Grant Judge, Graduate and Professional Student Council, University of Arizona, 2011
Masters Representative, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona, 2010-2011
EXTRA TRAINING
2018 Certificate in College Teaching, Graduate Teaching Program, University of Colorado, Boulder
2016 Lead Graduate Teacher Training, Graduate Teaching Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, May 9-12
2010 Pedagogical Methodology and Academic Professional Development, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of
Arizona
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT/OUTREACH
2017-2018 Curriculum Development Consulting, Cliff Valley School, Atlanta, Georgia
2006/2007 “Advantages to Multi-lingual Status in Our Global Community,” Rochester Adams High School, Rochester Hills, Michigan
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
2016-2017 Graduate Teaching Lead, Graduate Teaching Program, University of Colorado, Boulder
2016 Course Coordination Assistant: Advanced Spanish Language Skills, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of
Colorado, Boulder
2015 Modified Learning Tutor, Modified Language Learning Program, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of
Colorado, Boulder
LANGUAGES
English: Native
Spanish: Near-native in all areas
Italian: Advanced reading and intermediate listening comprehension
Portuguese: Intermediate reading and beginner listening comprehension
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS OR AFFILIATIONS
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater
Gemela
Modern Language Association
The Renaissance Society of America
The Royal Studies Network
The Sixteenth Century Society
The Society for Court Studies
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Ph.D. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2017
Dissertation: Playing the Court: Court Theater During the Reign of Carlos II of Spain (1661-1700)
Committee: Núria Silleras-Fernández (chair), John Slater, Andrés Prieto, Juan Herrero-Senés, David Glimp
M.A. Teaching Spanish Language and Culture to Non-native Speakers, Modern Language Center, University of Granada, Spain, 2017
M.A. Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona, Tucson, 2012
B.A. Spanish, Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon, Eugene, 2009
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2018-Present Assistant Professor of Spanish Online, Department of Modern Languages, Fort Hays State University
2017-2018 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Fort Hays State University
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
In press “Political Concerns Represented Through Court Entertainment: La estatua de Prometeo and the Power Struggle Between
Queen Regent Mariana and Don Juan José of Austria.” Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern
Monarchy, edited by Jonathan Spangler, Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues, and Manuela Santos Silva, Palgrave
MacMillan, 2019.
Articles in Preparation
“Letters to Mariana: Royal Council on Court Drama and the Formation of a Disabled Prince”
“Spectator Individuality in Royal Drama: Maintaining the Self in Mass Consumption”
Manuscripts in Preparation
Playing the Court: Royal Identity and Baroque Drama
AWARDS AND HONORS
2016 Best Should Teach Silver Award, University of Colorado, Boulder
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2015 Hispanex Grant, Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport, Spain, €3000
2015 Summer Fellowship, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder, $2500
2015 Language Study Grant, Center for Western Civilization, University of Colorado, Boulder, $1000
2015 Subsidies Travel Grant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder, $400
2012–2017 Fellowship, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder
2011–2012 Fellowship Recipient: Digital Humanities Project, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona
2010–2012 Fellowship for a Graduate Assistantship in Teaching. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona
INVITED TALKS
2016 La mujer noble y el arte real: la influencia de Mariana de Austria en la obra teatral, Department of Literature, Complutense
University of Madrid.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2020 Letters from the Archives: The Disabilities of Carlos II of Spain as Scapegoat for the Regency Council’s Objection to Royal
Theater, Disease and Disability, Being Human, The Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention, Seattle, WA,
January 9-12.
2019 Succession Solutions? The Nephew-King Paradigm in Bances Candamo’s El esclavo en grillos de oro and La piedra filosofal,
Performance, Royalty and the Court, 1500-1800, The Society for Court Studies, London, England, April 11-12.
2017 Shared Agency and Authority in Seventeenth-Century Royal Theater Productions: The Court in Madrid, Annual Symposium
on Golden Age Theater, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX, April 20-22.
2016 Political Influences on Madrid's Courtly Theater: The Interweaving of Habsburg Succession Concerns in Bances Candamo's
Political Trilogy (1692-1693), Dialogues of Power: Political (Re)presentations in the Arts, St. Andrews University, Scotland,
October 27-29.
2016 Where the Loyalties Lie: The Tangled Web Between Mariana of Austria, Don Juan of Austria, and Carlos II of Spain, Kings
and Queens V: Dynastic Loyalties, Royal Studies Network, Clemson University, Greenville, SC, April 8-9.
2016 Political Tensions in the 1670s: La estatua de Prometeo and the Politics of the Court, Annual Symposium on Golden Age
Theater, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX, March 31-April 2.
2015 Political Concerns as Represented Through Court Entertainment: La estatua de Prometeo and the Power Struggle Between
Queen Consort Mariana and John of Austria, Kings and Queens IV: Dynastic Changes and Legitimacy, Royal Studies
Network, University of Lisbon, Portugal, June 23-27.
2015 Los epígrafes de la segunda parte del Quijote, Don Quixote in the American West: A Fourth Centenary Celebration
(1615-2015), The University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, April 23-26.
2014 More than Mirror Neurons: A Look Beyond the Biological Process and Empathy Production, Annual Symposium on Golden
Age Theater, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX, February 27-March 1.
2011 El Cervantes progresivo y pre-feminista, Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature,
Language, and Culture, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, February.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fort Hays State University
Beginning Spanish I (fall 2017, spring 2018, summer 2018 online)
Beginning Spanish II (fall 2017, spring 2018)
Topics in Foreign Languages (spring 2018)
Translation and Interpretation I (fall 2017, spring 2019 online)
Translation and Interpretation II (spring 2018, summer 2018 online, fall 2019 online)
Latin American Civilization (spring 2018)
Independent Study (fall 2017, spring 2018, summer 2018)
University of Colorado, Boulder
Beginning Spanish II (summer 2014, spring 2017, fall 2018)
Second Year Spanish I (fall 2018)
Second Year Spanish II (fall 2013)
Advanced Spanish Language Skills (7 sections; fall 2012- spring 2016)
Spanish Conversation (fall 2016)
Literary and Cultural Analysis in Spanish (fall 2018)
University of Arizona
First Semester Spanish (fall 2011, spring 2012)
Second Semester Spanish (fall 2010, spring 2011, summer 2012)
Third Semester Spanish (summer 2011)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2013 Research Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder
2013 Book Proofing. Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire. Edited by John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada, and
José Pardo-Tomás, Ashgate Publishing, 2014.
DEPARTMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Curriculum Development Consulting, Department of Modern Languages, Fort Hays State University, 2018-2019
Faculty Senate, Department of Modern Languages, Fort Hays State University, 2018
Faculty Search Committee Member, Department of Modern Languages, Fort Hays State University, 2018
Minor Advisor, Department of Modern Languages, Fort Hays State University, 2017-2018
Graduate Student Mentor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona, 2013-2015
President and co-founder, Graduate Association from Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of
Arizona, 2011-2012
Travel Grant Judge, Graduate and Professional Student Council, University of Arizona, 2011
Masters Representative, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona, 2010-2011
EXTRA TRAINING
2018 Certificate in College Teaching, Graduate Teaching Program, University of Colorado, Boulder
2016 Lead Graduate Teacher Training, Graduate Teaching Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, May 9-12
2010 Pedagogical Methodology and Academic Professional Development, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of
Arizona
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT/OUTREACH
2017-2018 Curriculum Development Consulting, Cliff Valley School, Atlanta, Georgia
2006/2007 “Advantages to Multi-lingual Status in Our Global Community,” Rochester Adams High School, Rochester Hills, Michigan
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
2016-2017 Graduate Teaching Lead, Graduate Teaching Program, University of Colorado, Boulder
2016 Course Coordination Assistant: Advanced Spanish Language Skills, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of
Colorado, Boulder
2015 Modified Learning Tutor, Modified Language Learning Program, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of
Colorado, Boulder
LANGUAGES
English: Native
Spanish: Near-native in all areas
Italian: Advanced reading and intermediate listening comprehension
Portuguese: Intermediate reading and beginner listening comprehension
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS OR AFFILIATIONS
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater
Gemela
Modern Language Association
The Renaissance Society of America
The Royal Studies Network
The Sixteenth Century Society
The Society for Court Studies
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women