Professor of Spanish (part-time)
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8727

E-mail: FuerchM@ripon.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Wayne State University
• M.A., New York University Abroad (Madrid)
• B.A., Oakland University

Awards and Honors

• May Bumby Severy Award for Excellence in Teaching, Ripon College, 2003
• Global and Multicultural Studies Grant, Ripon College, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002
• Special Scholarly/Artistic grant to digitize microfilms of 3000 documents from the Historical Archives of Goa in India, 2002
• American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship, Archival Research in Goa, India, 1989-1990
• Program for Inter-Institutional Collaboration in Area Studies Fellowship, study of Arabic at The University of Michigan, 1988
• May Bumby Severy Award for excellence in teaching, Ripon College, 1988

Areas of Interest

• Medieval and early modern Spanish literature
• Misogynists and feminists
• The role of minorities (Moriscos and Marranos) in Spanish literature
  Cervantes
• Spanish and Portuguese languages
• Portuguese colonialism in South East Asia

Recent Publications

• "Common Ground: Risk, Scarcity and Shared Resources in Goan Agriculture," co-authored with Paul Axelrod, Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Issue 33, Spring 2005
• " Dual Submersion: Wisconsin Teachers and Students Survive Together," co-authored with Marguerite Parks, UW Oshkosh, International Journal of Learning, Vol. 11, Fall 2005
• "Imagined Communities: Portuguese Colonialism and Goa's Villages," with Paul Axelrod, Portuguese Studies Review, Vol. 9, Numbers 1 and 2, pp. 466-493, 2001
• "Listening to the Text: The Many Voices of the Goa Archives," with Paul Axelrod, Fourth Centenary Volume of the Goa Archives 1595-1995, ed. S.K. Mhamai, Fall 2001
• "Portuguese Orientalism and the Making of the Village Communities of Goa," with Paul Axelrod, Ethnohistory, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 439-476, Summer 1998
• "Structuring Diversity: Reconquest Policies and the Revitalization of Morisco Identity in Spain," with Paul Axelrod, Mediterranean Perspectives:Philosophy, Literature, History, and Art, ed. James E. Caraway, Dowling College, pp. 151-163, 1997
• "Flight of the Deities: Hindu Resistance in Portuguese Goa," with Paul Axelrod, Modern Asian Studies Journal, spring 1994
• Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid MS 4987 "Tratado Jurídico" (Madison: The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies Press, Ltd., August, 1986) and in CD-ROM collection sponsored by the National Library of Spain in recognition of Columbus' 500 Anniversary (1991)

Current Courses Taught

• Misogynist and Feminist Literature in Early Modern Spain
• Hispanic Theatre
• Cervantes and María de Zayas
• Theme of Islam in Spanish Literature
• Intermediate Spanish
• Cervantes and Don Quijote
• Intensive Beginning Portuguese
• Maymester in Spain