Literary Studies / Hispanic Literature

This book examines imagery of the eponymous character from La Celestina from the early sixteenth century until today.

The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain.

This book illuminates the history of experimental poetics in relation to the legacy of Iberian colonialism in the early twentieth century.

This collection of original essays offers new ways of understanding the production of epic poetry in Portugal and Spain from 1543 to 1639.

Ovid in the Age of Cervantes is an important and comprehensive re-evaluation of Ovid's impact on Renaissance and Early Modern Spain.

Drawing on feminist theories and cultural histories, this book interweaves historical and literary contexts of Spanish female writers and their works on war.

Drawing the Curtain examines the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes experiments with theatre and exploits theatricality in his diverse literary creations.

Blood Novels examines the significance of women’s blood and bloodlines in nineteenth-century Spanish literature and culture, advancing the study of gender in modern Iberian studies.

These essays examine a variety of cultural objects described or alluded to in books from the Golden Age of Spanish literature, including clothing, paintings, tapestries, playing cards, monuments, materials of war, and even enchanted bronze heads.

Bilingual Legacies examines the role of father figures in shaping several major authors’ gender and linguistic consciousness in Spain after Franco’s dictatorship.

Ellis provides a groundbreaking expansion of the geographical and cultural contours of Hispanism that bridges the fields of European, Latin American, and Asian Studies.

Quixotic Memories explores the complexity of memory through the lens of Miguel de Cervantes and his famous novel Don Quixote.

Cervantes' Architectures uncovers and examines the countless architectures found in Cervantes’ prose fiction.

God Made Word is an interdisciplinary study of mystic language across multiple genres and institutional contexts in early modern Spain.

Barcelona, City of Margins considers the impact of narrative and photography in the construction of urban space and social movements in Francoist Spain.

The Ibero-American Baroque is an interdisciplinary, empirically-grounded contribution to the understanding of cultural exchanges in the early modern Iberian world.