Heather Allen is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the University of Mississippi’s Department of Modern Languages. She has held a Tinker fellowship at the University of Chicago, Nahuatl study scholarships through Yale/IDIEZ-UAZ, and a visiting assistant professorship at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her research interests include the symbolic dimensions of literacy in colonial Spanish American historiography, the early modern cultural history of print, and Nahuatl studies.
Timothy Ambrose is Associate Professor of Spanish at Indiana University Southeast. He has published articles on Golden Age literature, twentieth-century Spanish poetry, and the fiction and poetry of twentieth-century Latin America. He is currently at work on a book that investigates how Lope de Vega, Cervantes, and Titian express in their works different aspects of the goddesses of antiquity.
Luis F. Avilés is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Irvine. He has published a book entitled Lenguaje y crisis: las alegorías del Criticón, and has also written a number of articles on Gracián, Garcilaso de la Vega, Cervantes, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. He is presently finishing a book project entitled Juegos visuales: espacio y mirada en la cultura literaria de los Siglos de Oro. He is also working on another project that studies the relationships between ethics, war, captivity, and politics in early modern Spain.
Mary E. Barnard is Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of The Myth of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid to Quevedo: Love, Agon, and the Grotesque (Duke University Press). She works on early modern lyric poetry and its relations to the visual arts, classical mythology, and material culture. Her essays have appeared in PMLA, Hispanic Review, Romanic Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, among others, and in edited collections. Her book Garcilaso and Material Culture is forthcoming.
Emilie L. Bergmann is Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on visual culture, gender, sexuality, and the maternal in early modern Hispanic literature. Her most recent publications focus on optics and musical culture in the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Luis de Góngora. She is co-editor (with Stacey Schlau) of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (2007) and Mirrors and Echoes: Women’s Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain (with Richard Herr, 2007).
Marsha S. Collins is Marcel Bataillon Distinguished Term Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of The ‘Soledades,’ Góngora’s Masque of the Imagination (Missouri, 2002), a book on Pío Baroja, and articles on Cervantes, Lope, Galdós, and Unamuno, among others. She has a special interest in the relationship between early modern literature and the visual arts, and is currently writing a book on visions of Arcadia in sixteenth-century pastoral romance.
Frederick A. de Armas is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Humanities and Professor in Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. His books include The Invisible Mistress: Aspects of Feminism and Fantasy in the Golden Age (1976); The Return of Astraea: An Astral-Imperial Myth in Calderón (1986); Cervantes, Raphael and the Classics (1998); Quixotic Frescoes: Cervantes and Italian Renaissance Art (2006); and Don Quixote among the Saracens: A Clash of Civilizations & Literary Genres (2011). The latter received the PROSE award in literature, honorary mention.
Edward H. Friedman is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish, Professor of Comparative Literature, and director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is editor of the Bulletin of the Comediantes. His primary field of research is early modern Spanish literature, and his work also covers contemporary narrative and drama.
Ryan D. Giles is Associate Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington and the author of The Laughter of the Saints: Parodies of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2009). Recent articles and book chapters have dealt with a variety of works, from the Libro de buen amor, to the Corbacho, cancionero poetry, Celestina, Lozana andaluza, and Calderón’s Devoción de la Cruz. He is currently working on a book that explores the way in which prayers and incantations were simultaneously employed in literature and used as textual amulets in medieval and early modern Spain.
Goretti González is a doctoral student in the Department of Romance Languages and Literature at Harvard University. Goretti earned a Master’s degree from UCLA in Hispanic Languages and Literature and a Bachelor’s degree from Scripps College in nineteenth-century French, Italian, and Latin-American literature. She spent a semester as a Graduate Fellow at the Villa I Tatti. Goretti works on cultural and literary production in early modern Spain with a special emphasis on visual and material culture and the construction of identity through the clothed body. She is also interested in Iberian-Italian exchanges and transatlantic studies.
Carolyn A. Nadeau is the Byron S. Tucci Professor of Spanish at Illinois Wesleyan University where she teaches courses on medieval and early modern literature and culture. She has authored a monograph on Don Quijote and a critical edition of El buscón, and published articles on mythological female figures in the comedia, the role of the wife and mother in sixteenth-century advice manuals, and food representation in Spanish texts. Her current project, Alonso Quijano’s Diet and the Discourse of Food in Early Modern Spain, explores the representations of food consumption and etiquette in the literature of early modern Spain and examines how food informs and intersects with social constructs of identity.
María Cristina Quintero is Professor of Spanish at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of the forthcoming Gendering the Crown in the Baroque Comedia (Ashgate 2012) and of Poetry As Play: Gongorismo and the Comedia (Purdue 1991). She is also the editor of Luis de Góngora, a special issue of Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, and has published numerous reviews and articles on Renaissance theories of translation, gender, and lyric poetry, and the politics of the comedia in Hapsburg Spain. Her articles have appeared in MLN, Hispanic Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Bulletin of the Comediantes, and Cervantes.
Robert ter Horst is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the University of Rochester, New York. He is the author of Calderon: The Secular Plays (1982), The Fortunes of the Novel (2003), and Literary Tectonics (in preparation) as well as an editor of Studies in Honor of Bruce W. Wardropper. He has published some fifty scholarly articles, most of them dealing with the poetry, drama, and prose fiction of the Hispanic Golden Age. He is a corresponding member of the Hispanic Society of America.
Christopher B. Weimer is Professor of Spanish at Oklahoma State University. With Barbara Simerka, he is co-editor of Echoes and Inscriptions: Comparative Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literatures (2000) and co-founder of Laberinto: An Electronic Journal of Early Modern Hispanic Literatures and Cultures. His essays on both early modern and contemporary Hispanic theatre have appeared in journals including Anuario de estudios cervantinos, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Calíope, Estreno, Hispanic Review, Hispanófila, Latin American Theater Review, and Modern Drama.