Sarah J. Banks

Professor of Spanish

Ph.D., Spanish, University of Southern California
M.A., Spanish, University of Southern California
B.A., Spanish, Allegheny College

Office: 442 College of Liberal Arts Building
Phone: 601.979.2868 

SPECIALTY

Literature of the Conquest and Colonial Spanish American Literature
English Word Power
Spanish Activity in the Northern Gulf Region

B.A. in Spanish, 1963 Phi Beta Kappa
Allegheny College , Meadville , PA

M.A. in Spanish, 1965
University of Southern California , Los Angeles , CA

1965-66
NDFL #6 Latin American Studies Fellow

1966-67
NDFL #6 Latin American Studies Fellow

Ph.D. in Spanish, 1969
University of Southern California , Los Angeles , CA

Dissertation: A Critical Edition of the Escorial Manuscript of Fray Toribio de Benevente's (Motolinia) Historia de los indios de la Nueva Espana.

Acknowledgments

Copeland, John G.: et al, Puertas a la lengua espanola , Random House, New York , 1982.

Elliot, Jr., Jack D. “City and Empire: The Spanish Origins of Natchez ” in The Journal of Mississippi History , Winter, 1997, pp. 271-323.

Knorre, Marte, Puntos de partida , Random House, New York , 1981.

Articles

“Fray Toribio de Benavente (Motolinia) A Selected Bibliography,” Archivo iberoamericano , Number 128, Oct.-Dec., 1972, pp. 463-482.

“Women's Suffrage Movement in Mississippi ”, Accomplishments of Mississippi Women: Movements, Groups and Individuals , IWY Special Projects Committee, 1978.

“Foreign Languages. Frill or Foundation? Or How to Grab the Bull by the Horns”, ADFL Bulletin , November 1980, pp. 35-36.

“Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, Come to the Fair. Mississippi 's Statewide Foreign Language Fair”, Mississippi Language Crusader , February, 1991, pp. 12-21.

Costa Rica ! Pura vida! Jackson 2000 , 1996 edition, pp. 4-6

“ Mississippi Foreign Language Association: Then and Now”, Mississippi Language Crusader , May 2001, pp. 4-30.

Books

Banks, Sarah J. and Charles A. Weeks. Mississippi 's Spanish Heritage: Selected Writings 1492-1798 , Jackson, Ms.: State Department of Education, 1992.

This book was written under a grant from the Hardin Foundation and received very favorable reviews. Malcolm Richardson, President Bush's Chair of the National Humanities Commission requested additional copies to present to the Spanish Ambassador and other dignitaries. It was distributed free to all Spanish teachers in Mississippi public schools and was used in a number of workshops.

Weeks, Charles A. and Sarah J. Banks. Texts in Context: The Nogales Dispute, 1791-92 . Completed manuscript.

Funded by Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project of the University of Houston . This was one of the ten projects funded as part of the 1996 Grants-in-Aid Program. A manuscript containing 275 pages was submitted in August 1996.

Weeks, Charles A. Paths to a Middle Ground: the Diplomay of Natchez , Boukfouka, Nogales , and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791-95.

Although I am not listed as an author, I prepared the English translations from the Spanish documents which form the bulk of the text. The manuscript has been accepted by the University Press of Alabama.