Contributors
- Contributors
Verónica Azcue Castillón holds a PhD in Spanish literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Since 1999 she has been a professor in the Department of Spanish at the Madrid Campus of Saint Louis University. Her current research focuses on the dramatic works of Spanish Republican authors exiled after 1939, and in particular various playwrights’ adaptations of classical themes. Her recent publications include editions of Barataria, by Manuel Martínez Azaña, and Numantina, by José Martín Elizondo.
John Cull is Professor of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross. His publications include Cervantes studies, emblematics and their influence on Spanish Golden Age literature, and staging and other aspects of Spanish Golden Age comedias. He is Co-Editor of the book series Medio Maravedí and a member of the editorial board of journals such as Emblematica, Imago: Revista de emblemática y cultura visual, Janus: Estudios sobre el Siglo de Oro, and Interfaces.
Esther Fernández is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Rice University. She is the author of Eros en escena: Erotismo en el teatro del Siglo de Oro (2009). Her research interests include the Spanish comedia, visual and material culture, and contemporary adaptations of Spanish Golden Age theater. She is currently working on a monograph on the ritualized puppet figure in early modern Spanish religious and secular ceremonies and theatrical productions.
Enrique García Santo-Tomás is the Frank Paul Casa Collegiate Professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan. He is the author of La creación del ‘Fénix’: Recepción crítica y formación canónica del teatro de Lope de Vega (2000), which received the ‘Premio Moratín de Ensayo a la Investigación Teatral’ (2001); Espacio urbano y creación literaria en el Madrid de Felipe IV (2004), winner of the ‘Premio Villa de Madrid / Premio de Investigación Municipal Antonio Maura’ (2005); Modernidad bajo sospecha: Salas Barbadillo y la cultura material del siglo [End Page 261] XVII (2008); and La musa refractada: Literatura y óptica en la España del Barroco (2014), forthcoming in English with the University of Chicago Press (2016).
María Heredia Mantis holds a Liceniatura in Hispanic Philology from the University of Huelva. She was named ERASMUS student (year 2011/2012) at University Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris 3. She also holds a Master’s degree in Spanish Language Research from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and a Master’s degree in Teaching in secondary schools. Currently, she is a PhD student preparing a dissertation on the History of the Spanish language under the direction of Professor Luis Gómez Canseco and Professor María Victoria Galloso Camacho.
Louis Imperiale teaches literary works and Latin American film studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has published numerous essays on medieval and Golden Age authors such as Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita, Don Juan Manuel, Fernando de Rojas (and other Celestina authors) as well as Gutierre de Cetina, Matías Escudero de Cobeña, Mariana de Carvajal, Cervantes, Lope de Vega. His works on La Lozana Andaluza are fundamental in order to frame Delicado’s novel. He is currently working on humor and secularism in medieval texts as well as on plural identities in medieval Spain. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Katowice (Silesia) and the University of Toulon–La Garde (France).
Javier Jiménez Belmonte is Associate Professor of Spanish at Fordham University (New York). He works and publishes on Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and post-Baroque Spanish literature and culture. He is the author of Las Obras en Verso del príncipe de Esquilache: Amateurismo y conciencia literaria (Támesis, 2007).
Kevin Larsen, Professor of Spanish and Religious Studies at the University of Wyoming, published extensively on a variety of areas of Spanish literature, typically from a comparative perspective, and running from the Middle Ages, through the Early Modern period, and into the mid-twentieth century. During his career, he authored three [End Page 262] books (1992, 1997, 1999), on Gabriel Mir, Galdós, and Cervantes, along with more than sixty articles, published in the US and abroad.
Daniel Lorca is an Assistant...
