Early modern Spanish literature.
About
Although I am a literary scholar by training, I have spent the last decade working on the history of science and technology in the Iberian Peninsula. My initial trilogy (2000--08) explored the material conditions surrounding the rise and canonization of a number of major writers of early modern Spain. My current project, tentatively titled “Trilogy of the Muses,” explores the fruitful, yet under-explored dialogue between scientific discoveries in the European context and the development of fiction in Cervantes and his contemporaries. The first monograph of this new path, titled La musa refractada (2014), focuses on optics and astronomy, and specifically on the Spanish fortunes of Galileo’s telescope. Two new books in progress, La musa encinta and La musa giratoria, respectively tackle the disciplines of early modern obstetrics and mechanics in their conversation with the fiction of the time.
I am also the editor of several anthologies on early modern Spanish literature and culture, as well as of half a dozen critical editions of pieces by Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo. I have authored over 120 book chapters, articles, and reviews on early modern Spanish literature and culture, with recent and forthcoming work in PMLA, MLN, Modern Philology, Revista de Occidente, Hispanic Review, Cuadernos de Teatro Clásico, Revista Iberoamericana, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies,Hispania: Revista Española de Historia, RILCE, Bulletin of the Comediantes, and Crítica Hispánica, as well as in compilations by MLA, Brill, Castalia, Turner, Ashgate, and Cambridge UP.
Affiliation(s)
- Romance Languages & Literatures
