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Sarah Finley

Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures - Honors Program

Sarah Finley

Associate Professor

McMurran Hall 129
(757) 594-7969
sarah.finley@cnu.edu

Education

  • Ph D in Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky
  • MA in Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky
  • BM in Vocal Performance, Converse College

Research

Colonial Spanish American Literary and Cultural Studies
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Sound Studies
Early Modern Religious Women

Biography

Sarah Finley is Associate Professor of Spanish. Training in literature, musicology and vocal performance supports her research on sound and music in the early modern Hispanic world. Finley is the author of Hearing Voices: Aurality and New Spanish Sound Culture in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). The book attends to poet and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s auditory inheritance by relating acoustical tropes in the author’s writing to seventeenth-century ideas about music, sound transmission, hearing and more. In addition, her work has appeared in national and international academic journals. Complementary to scholarly writing, Finley also explores performance and other auditory modes as methods for re-sounding marginalized voices from the past.

Selected Accomplishments

  • Provost's Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching Writing, Christopher Newport University. (2019)
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2023). “ ‘Cantemo, Pilico’: Sounding Race in Sor Juana’s villancicos”. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2023). “Sor Juana and the Countess of Villaumbrosa". Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2022). “ ‘¿Enseñar Música a un Ángel?’: The Countess of Villaumbrosa as Sor Juana’s Musical Patron in Romance 21.”. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Volume, 56. Issue, 1. Pages, 29-50.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2022). “Patronage, Paratexts and the Poetic Voice in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Inundación castálida (1689).”. Casa Vacía. Pages, 219-34.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2020). “Más allá de la sonoridad: huellas del pensamiento musical en el convento de Jesús María de México.”. Boletín de Monumentos Históricos. Volume, 45. Pages, 68-82.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2020). “Sounding Feminine Intellect in the villancicos to St. Catherine of Alexandria (1691).”. Calíope: Journal for the Society of Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Volume, 25. Issue, 1. Pages, 24-43.
  • Book, Scholarly-New
    (2019). Hearing Voices: Aurality and New Spanish Sound Culture in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. University of Nebraska P, New Hispanisms Series. Pages, 252.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2018). "Exemplary sound and hearing in sensory treatises from the early modern Spanish-speaking world". The Senses and Society. Volume, 13. Issue, 2. Pages, 203-18.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2016). “Embodied Sound and Female Voice in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Canon: Romance 8 and El divino Narciso”. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Volume, 50. Issue, 1. Pages, 191-216.
  • Sarah Finley, Feminine Soundscapes, "“Remixing the Phoenix: Afro-descent in Rak Ric Rack!'s Tumba La-Lá-La: Los villancicos negros de sor Juana (2008).”," Virtual. (2022)
  • Sarah Finley, Uncommon Senses III, "“ ‘We also knows / how tuh sing tuh da Queen’: A Sensory Framework for Hearing Subaltern Voices in Sor Juana Inés de la Cru," Virtual (Montreal). (2021)
  • Sarah Finley, The Academic Minute, "Hearing Voices of Women Past," (2019)
  • Sarah Finley, Modern Language Association International Symposium, "Intersections of Theater, Poetry and Music in an 18th-Century Setting of Sor Juana’s Loa 380," Lisbon, Portugal. (2019)
  • Sarah Finley, "A Phoenix Reborn: A Concert of Previously Unedited Music for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Loa 380," Christopher Newport University. (2019)
  • Sarah Finley, Sarah Gallo, Valentina Sorbera, Transatlantic Perspectives, "Singing with the Sisters: Sacred Vocal Music of New Spanish Women," Charleston, SC. (2018)
  • Sarah Finley, 3er Congreso Internacional Los Conventos de Monjas, arquitectura y vida cotidiana del virreinato a la post modernidad, "El ámbito sonoro del convento de Jesús María," Templo de Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Querétaro, Mexico.. (2018)
  • Sarah Finley, Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, "“Sounding Feminine Intellect in the villancicos to St. Catherine of Alexandria (1691).”," New York, NY. (2018)
  • Sarah Finley, Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, "Death, Seen and Heard: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Inheritance of Musical Iconography in vanitas Still Lifes.”," Philadelphia, PA. (2017)
  • Sarah Finley, Forging Links Across Space and Time, "La oreja de mi entendimiento’: Alucinaciones auditivas en la Arboleda de los enfermos de Teresa de Cartagena.”," San Juan, Puerto Rico. (2016)
  • Sarah Finley, Seminario: Los conventos de monjas, arquitectura y vida cotidiana del virreinato a la postmodernidad., "“Vislumbres sonoros: Nuevas aproximaciones a la representación del sonido en la obra de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz”," Franz Mayer Museum, Mexico City. (2016)
  • Sarah Finley, SAMLA 87-In Concert: Literature and the Other Arts, "“Auditory Paradigms and Hearing in Sor Juana’s Canon: Primero sueño”," Durham, NC. (2015)
  • Sarah Finley,, Cloistered Women’s Voices: Symposium on Sound, Song and Silence in Early Modern Convents, ""Contrapuntal Voices: Silence in New Spanish Convents"," Lexington, KY. (2015)
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