- Contributors
Javier Álvarez teaches Spanish Language and Literature at the I.E.S. La Fuensanta, in Córdoba, Spain. He is a member of the research group P.A.S.O (Poesía Andaluza del Siglo de Oro), and has published extensively on sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth-century poetry. He has contributed to several collective volumes including Diccionario filológico de literatura española. Siglo XVI (2009), Gran enciclopedia cervantina (vol. 6, 2009) and Dizionario Storico dell’Inquisizione (2010).
Rachael Ball is Assistant Professor of Early Modern and World History at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Her research interests center broadly on the intersections between political culture and popular culture in early modern Spain as part of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds. She is the co-editor of the critical edition Cómo Ser Rey (2014), and her book Treating the Public: Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World is forthcoming with LSU Press (2017).
Nieves Baranda Leturio is Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid. Since 2004 she leads the BIESES (Bibliography of Spanish Women Writers, www.bieses.net) research project. She has published Cortejo a lo prohibido (2006), and edited with Mª Carmen Marín Pina Letras en la celda. Cultura escrita de los conventos femeninos en la España moderna (2011). Some recent essays are: “Feminae poeticae. Una generación de mujeres poetas a mediados del siglo XVI” (2016) and “Words for Sale: Early Modern Spanish Women’s Literary Economy” (2016).
Crystal Chemris is Courtesy Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon. She is author of Góngora’s Soledades and the Problem of Modernity (Tamesis, 2008), which studies Góngora’s poem as well as the projection of his poetics into the post-Symbolist Latin American avant garde. She is also guest editor of a special number of Calíope on Transatlantic Baroque. Most recently she has published on Góngora and the Moriscos. [End Page 125]
Clara E. Herrera (PhD University of Illinois at Chicago) has specialized in Colombian religious writers of the XVII and XVIII centuries and in other themes related primordially to Colonial women in Nueva Granada. She has published one book, Las místicas de la Nueva Granada: Tres casos de búsqueda de la perfección y construcción de la santidad (Paso de Barca, 2013), and several articles and book chapters.
Cipriano López Lorenzo is a Ph. D. Researcher at the Spanish and Latin American Literature Department of the University of Seville and technical coordinator of the project “Sujeto e Institución Literaria en la Edad Moderna” of the Research Group PASO (Poesía Andaluza del Siglo de Oro). He has published on authors like Braones, Francisco de Godoy, Torre Farfán, etc. and is secretary and editor of the e-journal Atalanta: Revista de las Letras Barrocas since 2012.
Mar Martínez Góngora is Professor of Spanish at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of four books: Los espacios coloniales en las crónicas de Berbería (2013), La apropiación masculina del espacio doméstico rural en textos españoles del Renacimiento (2010), El hombre atemperado: Autocontrol, disciplina y masculinidad (2005), Discursos sobre la mujer en el Renacimiento español: los casos de Antonio de Guevara, Alfonso y Juan de Valdés y Luis de León (1999), and numerous articles on Early Modern literature.
Leticia Mercado is Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Boston College. Her research concerns word and image studies, particularly the dialogue between poetry, painting, and emblematic literature in Baroque Spain, as well as funerary poetry, the epitaphic genre, and twentieth-century readings of the Baroque, especially by the poetic generations of post-Civil War Spain.
María Cristina Quintero is Professor and Chair of Spanish at Bryn Mawr College and Director of Comparative Literature. She is the author of Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia (Ashgate 2011) and co-editor with Anne J. Cruz of Beyond Spain’s Borders: Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters (forthcoming, Routledge...