Ryan Schmitz, Ph.D.

“Gauging Trustworthiness in the Intercalated Novels of the 1605 Quijote” (Forthcoming) Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America

“Juan Lorenzo Palmireno and the Practical Application of Humanistic Study.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 101.2 (2024): 105-116.

“Theory of Mind in Early Modern Spanish Manuals of Courtly Conduct.” Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature. Ed. Isabel Jaén and Julien Simon. Oxford University Press, 2016. 164-180. 

“The Hand as Metaphor in Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 93.2 (2016): 99-112.

“Tracing Transoceanic Intertextualities in More’s Utopia (1516), González de Mendoza’s Historia de China ((1585), and Fernández de Lizardi’s El Periquillo Sarniento (1816).”  eHumanista 27 (2014): 300-314.

“Sancho’s Courtly Performance: Discreción and the Art of Conversation in the Ducal Palace Episodes of Don Quijote II” Modern Language Notes 128.2 (2013): 445-455.

“Cervantes’s Language of the Heart in the Novelas ejemplares and Don Quijote” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. 32.2 (2012): 173-197.

“The Great Chain of Being and Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares” eHumanista 20 (2012): 511-524.

“Prudence, Sincerity, and the Body’s Betrayal of the Dissimulated Self in Cervantes’s La señora Cornelia”.  Bulletin of Spanish Studies 88.3 (2011): 349-366.

• “Crises of Masculinity in the 1605 Quijote and Today.” Cervantes Ahora/ Cervantes Now, conference of the Cervantes Society of America, 9/19-9/20/2024 at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque.
• "Don Quijote de la Mancha y su impacto cultural a través de los siglos."Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish Department, Texas Tech University. 2/9/2024
• “The Trials of Cardenio: Betrayal, Trust, and Exemplary Literature.” Texas Cervantes Symposium, University of Texas, Austin, 11/3-11/5/2023.

• “Tracking Trust in the Intercalated Novels of the 1605 Quijote” at “Cervantes Global/ Global Cervantes” a joint conference of the Cervantes Society of America and the Asociación de Cervantistas at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 6/7-6/9/23
• “Preciosa’s Exemplary Discretion” North American Cervantes Society of America Conference, Univeristy of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. September 27^th – 29^th, 2018.
• “Gossip, Hypocrisy, and Reading Other Minds: A Cognitive Approach to El coloquio de los perros” Sixth Texas Cervantes Symposium at the University of Texas at Austin, Octoberer 21-22, 2016.
• “Cleanliness and the Construction of Identity in Part II of Don Quijote” “Don Quijote and the Mediterranean World” at the University of Texas at Austin October 18^th and 19^th
• "Poverty and Delinquency in Barataria: Contextualizing Sancho’s Humanist Social Reform." "Don Quijote in the American West: A Fourth-Centenary Celebration (1615-2015), University of Colorado, Denver and University of Wyoming, Laramie. April 23-26, 2015. 
• “Elementos utópicos en la Historia de China de Juan González de Mendoza.” “VIII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Asiática de Hispanistas” (8^th International Congress of the Asian Association of Hispanists) in Shanghai, China, July 17^th, 2013.
• “Hands Discourse, and Economic Production in the Novelas ejemplares.” Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, January 5, 2013; Program arranged by Cervantes Society of America and the Division on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose.
• Panel discussion participant: “Quixotic Frontiers.” Central Texas Cervantes Symposium 2011, hosted by the Cervantes Society of America at the University of Texas, Austin on   October 21^st, 2011.
• “Pechos sinceros: Heart and Chest Imagery in the Novelas ejemplares.” Central Texas Cervantes Symposium 2010, hosted by The Cervantes Society of America at the University of Texas, Austin, TX on November 19^th, 2010.
• “Reading the Signs of Identity in Cervantes Novelas ejemplares.” South Central Modern Languages Association Conference, Fort Worth, TX, October 28^th, 2010.

• Modern Language Association
• Cervantes Society of America