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Marta Albalá Pelegrín

Marta Albalá Pelegrín

Professor

English and Modern Languages, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences

Email

martaa@cpp.edu

Phone number

909.869.4625

Office location

24-213

Office hours

M W | TBA

Grants, Awards and Honors

External Research Awards and Honors

2026          Herzog August Bibliothek, Short Term Fellowship.

2024-25     Hispanex Program, Ministry of Culture (Spain). Awarded €13,500 for the production of a musical audio play based on Calderón’s Amar después de la muerte, a drama set during the War of the    Alpujarras.

2022-23     Folger Shakespeare Library, Short Term Research Fellowship.

2021-22     Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society of America.

2021          Paul Oskar Kristeller Research Fellowship, Renaissance Society of America (RSA).

2021         Charles Montgomery Gray Research Fellowship, Newberry Library.

2020         Berenson Research Fellowship, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 1 Sept. – 31 Dec.

2020         American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS), $20,000 Grant to organize an international conference in Tangiers on Mediterranean, North and West African Mobility with Andrew Devereux, Mayte      Green Mercado and Hussein Fancy. Outcome: International Conference at   the TALIM, Tangiers, Morocco, 25-26 July 2022.

2017         Fulbright-Hays Study Group Abroad Program California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, East Meets West: Morocco –Crossroads and Meeting Ground, Morocco, June 26 - July 31. 

2015         National Endowment for the Humanities, NEH, Summer Institute Fellowship, Negotiating Identities: Expression and Representation in the Christian -Jewish- Muslim Mediterranean, July 5-August 1.

2015         Mellon Summer Institute Fellowship in Spanish Paleography, Huntington Library, 22 June -10 July. (Declined)

2015          Newberry Library, Weekend Workshop in Spanish Paleography, 27-28 February.

2012         Folger Shakespeare Library Institute Seminar “Sexuality, Theory, History, Drama,” Washington DC, 20 Sept.-6 Dec.

2012         Fellowship to participate in Early Modern Migrations: Exiles, Expulsion, & Religious Refugees 1400-1700,Victoria College, University of Toronto, 19–21 April.

2010         Making Publics, Communicating Culture in Early Modern Europe. A research Seminar for Dissertation-Stage and Recent PhDs and Junior Faculty, Mc Gill University & and Concordia    University, Canada, May 24- 23 June.  

2010         Fellowship to participate in Making Publics: Visual, Scientific, and Literary Formations. Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 10-11 September.

2010-11    The Graduate Center, CUNY, Doctoral Students’ Council Dissertation Award for the Humanities.

Internal Grants and Awards

2025, 2020 & 2015 Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Award (RSCA), Cal Poly Pomona.

2024-25    Difference in Pay Leave Award, Cal Poly Pomona.

2023, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2016, & 2015 Special Projects for Improving the Classroom Experience (SPICE), Cal Poly Pomona.

2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 & 2015 Teacher Scholar Award, Cal Poly Pomona.

2020          Dean's Travel Award, Cal Poly Pomona.

2016 & 2015   Faculty Professional Development Mini-Grant, Cal Poly Pomona.

Visiting Scholar

2021     Visiting Scholar, Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM), University Nova of Lisbon, 1-30 June. 

2019    Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. Invited by Matthias Roick. Project: “The Ways of Virtue. The Ethica section in Wolfenbüttel and the History of Ethics in Early Modern Europe,” University of Göttingen, 8-18 December.

2017    Visiting Scholar, Centre for Women and Literature, Gender, Sexualities and Cultural Criticism, ADHUC, University of Barcelona, 4-9 June.