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Dr. Neal Anthony Messer  
Dr. Neal Anthony Messer
Lecturer of Spanish
 
Joined MSU in 2009
 
Education
 
Ph.D., Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky, 2005
M.A., Spanish, University of Kentucky, 2000
B.A., Biology, Transylvania University, 1996
 
 
Areas of Interest
 
I love Colonial Spanish American Literature, particularly the 17th century chronicles and semi-fictitious works of Peru and South America. I am interested in working with first hand archival materials and helping to preserve them and make them available to a wider public. I am fascinated by religious thought of the 17th century and the worldview of Spaniards living as a dominant minority in the "New World" colonies.
 
 
Recent Works
 
 
Publications
 
Book Review Mexico: From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest and Mexico: The Colonial Era. The Sixteenth Century Journal Vol. 37: p.163-166 (2006)
 
Short Story "El sueño del burro." El Cid: La revista estudiantil del Capítulo Tau Iota de Sigma Delta Pi,La Sociedad Nacional Honoraria Hispánica Edición XVI: p.xx-xxii (2004)
 
 
Conference Papers
 
"Rationalizing Defeat: If God Is on Our Side, Why Did We Lose?" Sixty-First Kentucky Foreign Language Conference; Lexington, KY (Apr 2008)
 
"You Shouldn't Exist: 'New World' Inhabitants as Creators of Doubt." Sixtieth Kentucky Foreign Language Conference; Lexington, KY (Apr 2007)
 
"Born Under a New World Sun: The Creole Birthplace Defended," 2005 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Convention; Atlanta, GA (Nov 2005)
 
"Looking Beyond the Mythic Hero: Andrés de León's Historia del Huérfano (1621)," Fifty-Eighth Kentucky Foreign Language Conference; Lexington, KY (Apr 2005)
 
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