Matthew Desing

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota

Matthew Desing is currently an advanced graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies and Medieval Studies minor. He received his B.A. from Concordia College in 1997, and his M.A. from the University of Minnesota in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics in 2001. He is currently working on his dissertation which is on the journey in the 13th century Spanish "Mester de Clerecia" texts.

Select Bibliography:

"One Road Diverged: Masculinity and Femininity in the Pilgrimages of the Cantigas de Santa María" (presented at the 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2004)

"Gender Journeys: Pilgrimage and Masculinity in the Cantigas de Santa maria of alfonso X, the Wise" (presented at the Medieval Academy of America Annual Conference, Minneapolis, April 2003)

"Historical Reality and Allegorical Representation: the Road and the Journey in Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora" (unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Minnesota, 2001)