Education
2023
Ph.D. in English, Brandeis University
Fulbright-García Robles Grant for Graduate Studies in the United States of America.
Dissertation title: “Performing a Servant’s Faithful Parts: Master-Servant Relations in Early Modern Drama.”
Advisor: Professor Ramie Targoff.
2009
Master of Arts, Literature and Languages
Department of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Thesis: “Why are not sonnets made of thee?” The religious sonnets of John Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins
2006
Bachelor of Arts, Language and Literature (English Literature)
Department of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Thesis: “Compass, compass. Parallel conceits in two poems by John Donne”
Honors & Awards
2023
Richard Kaufman ’58 Memorial Prize for Leadership and Academic Excellence, speaker representative of graduating class, Brandeis University.
2022
3MT (Three Minute Thesis) First Prize Award, Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools regional final
2020
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University.
2016
Fulbright-García Robles Grant for Graduate Studies in the United States of America.
2006
Two-year grant for MA studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Professional Experience
2023 – present
Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Georgia Institute of Technology
Developed syllabus, designed lesson plans, and taught courses in English composition, and multimodal communication. Conducted research in literature and writing and communication pedagogy. Served in the Multilingual Pedagogy and World Englishes Committee.
2021-2023
Writing Center Co-director
Brandeis University
Hired, trained, and coordinated up to 20 writing consultants per semester. Managed Writing Center budget, outreach, scheduling, programming, and liaison with other departments.
2021
Instructor and Workshop facilitator
Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative
Developed syllabus and taught college credit-bearing course at School of Reentry, Boston Pre-Release Center. Developed materials, led sessions, and assessed needs of participants in the Partakers Empowerment Program for community reintegration of previously incarcerated individuals.
2021
Instructor and Workshop facilitator
Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative
Developed syllabus and taught college credit-bearing course at School of Reentry, Boston Pre-Release Center. Developed materials, led sessions, and assessed needs of participants in the Partakers Empowerment Program for community reintegration of previously incarcerated individuals.
2019 – 2021
Lectureship
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Brandeis University
Developed syllabus and lesson plans for five- and ten-week courses on Shakespeare and other literature and film contents.
2017-2020
Teaching Fellow
Brandeis University
Led sections and one lecture during the semester.
2018 – 2019
University Writing Seminar Instructor
Brandeis University
Developed syllabus and lesson plans for first-year writing course with literature, film, and theory content.
2017 – 2019
Writing Center Consultant
University Writing Program, Brandeis University
Offered one-on-one support to undergraduate and graduate students.
2008 – 2016
Instructor
Department of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Taught undergraduate courses on Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature, English Literature of the Seventeenth Century, and English as a Second Language, Writing and Composition, Shakespeare, Nineteenth Century English Literature. Supervised undergraduate and graduate theses.
2014
Instructor
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
Taught English as a second language to graduate and undergraduate Economics, Law and Political Science, and International Relations students.
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles:
Gutiérrez-Popoca, Emiliano. “Apprentice spirits and noble slaves: servile agency and the limits of service and slavery in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.” Renaissance Drama, The University of Chicago Press Journals. Accepted for publication in the Spring, 2024 issue.
Gutiérrez-Popoca, Emiliano. “The Independent Parasite: Mosca’s Theatrical Service in Volpone.” Ben Jonson Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, May 2022, pp. 46–64. Edinburgh University Press Journals, https://doi.org/10.3366/bjj.2022.0327.
Non-refereed article:
Gutiérrez Popoca, Emiliano. “”El alma en paráfrasis”. El soneto ‘Prayer I’ de George Herbert y su traducción como soneto en español.” Cánones y fugas, el soneto como ejercicio de traducción literaria: teoría y práctica, Gabriel Linares González and Mario Murgia Elizalde (editors), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10391/7492
Translation:
Gutiérrez Popoca, Emiliano. “Pequeños mundos de ingenio y arte: traducción y comentario de seis sonetos religiosos de John Donne”. Anuario de Letras Modernas. Vol. 7, 2012. Mexico: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM. http://ru.ffyl.unam.mx/handle/10391/4235
Conference Memoir:
Gutiérrez Popoca, Emiliano. “El gótico norteamericano femenino desde la perspectiva masculina en The Virgin Suicides de Jeffrey Eugenides”. Coloquio Interacional Gótico III y IV. 2010-2011. Miriam Guzman y Antonio Alcalá (compilers). Mexico: Samsara Editorial, 2012. https://issuu.com/coloquiogoticointernacional/docs/e-bookmemorias_coloquiogotico_2010-11
Presentations
2021 Paper: “A Parasite for Any Humor: Jonson’s Mosca, Disguise, and Social Mobility” Renaissance Society of America Virtual 2021 Conference, April 20, 2021.
2019 Paper: “Master-Servant Relations, the Body and its Passions in Early Modern Drama”
Panel: New Work in Early Modern Drama: A Graduate Symposium, December 6. Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
2019 Panel organizer: “Poetics and Politics of Translation and Rewriting in Early Modern Literature in English”.
Paper: “The Woman, Courtier, and Poet in the Anachronisms of the Imagery of Mary Sidney’s Psalter”. Northeast Modern Language Association. 50th Anniversary Convention. Washington, DC, March 23.
2018 Lecture: “Francis Quarles’s Emblems, Devine and Moral; Together with Hieroglyphicks of the Life of Man” (with Prof. William Flesch) Close Looking Series. Brandeis University, November 28.
2018 Paper: “Relics, Landscapes and Legends. Sacred Space and Typology in the Southwest of Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop” Displacement 2018. An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference. The Graduate Center, CUNY, November 2.
2017 Paper: “An Actor in a Mist: Bosola, Melancholy and Metatheatricality in John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi.” UMass Graduate Interdisciplinary Renaissance Conference. October 28
Languages
Spanish: native
English: reading, writing, and speaking at graduate studies level
French: good reading comprehension, intermediate speaking, and writing skills.