About
I am an Associate Professor of Spanish in the
Department of Modern Languages and Classics at
Siena College (Loudonville, NY).
I earned my Ph.D. from
Boston University and my Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics and Literature at
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
My academic field is early modern Hispanic studies and my research focuses on Morisco and Aljamiado literature, which is texts written in Spanish using Arabic letters. I study the texts produced by Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity in the 16th. century) during their final expulsion from Spain between 1609 and 1614. My work focuses on a comparative study of religious polemics between Old Christians and Moriscos in 17th-century Spain and Tunisia.
Education
- Ph.D. Hispanic Language and Literatures, Boston University.
- B.A. Lingüística y Literatura Hispánica, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
- B.A. Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Publications
Articles and Book Chapters
- “Teaching Unit: Francisco Núñez Muley, Memorial / Petition.” In: Open Iberia/América (2023)
- “De Granada al Nuevo Mundo: El sujeto conquistado en El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Colón, de Lope de Vega”, Hispanical, Vol. 2, no.1, 2023, pp. 5-16.
- “Polémica anticristiana en el Norte de África: el caso de dos moriscos españoles del siglo XVII”, TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, vol. 9, no.4, 2020, pp. 83-102.
- “El enemigo musulmán en El Abencerraje: Abindarráez, los moriscos y la personificación de la derrota”, eHumanista/Conversos, vol. 3, 2015, pp. 228-245
- “‘Toda obra loa y alaba a su Hacedor’: de las transgresiones y subversiones del autor en La Lozana andaluza”, Romance Notes, vol. 55, no.1, 2015, pp. 3-16.
- “Social Denunciation of the Politics of Fear: Rock Music through the Eighties in Argentina, Chile, and Peru”, Song and Social Change in Latin America, edited by Lauren Shaw, Lexington Books, 2013, pp. 77-90.
- “Viaje de Turquía: la representación de los turcos en un diálogo del siglo XVI”, Hispania Félix: Revista rumano-española de cultura y civilización de los Siglos de Oro, vol. 2, 2011, pp. 67-84
Book Reviews
- Infante, Catherine. The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain. In: Bulletin of the Comediantes, vol. 74, no. 1–2, 2023
- Green-Mercado, Mayte. Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean. In: Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, vol. 76, no.1, 2022, pp. 52-54.
- Barbara Fuchs, Larissa Brewer-García, and Aaron J. Ilika, Eds. and trans. “The Abencerraje” and “Ozmín and Daraja”: Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain. In: The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 47, no.1, 2016, pp. 258-259.
- Anne Marie Wolf. Juan de Segovia and the Fight for Peace. Christians and Muslims in the Fifteenth Century. In: The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 46, no.3, 2015, pp. 794-796.
Projects
- Religious confrontations in 17th century Spain: Ibrahim Taybili and the apologists of the expulsion of Moriscos from Spain
- Jewelry and Precious Stones: The Resignification of Female Luxurious Accessories in Early Modern Spain
- Soliloquies, Cross-Dressing and a False Head: The Case of Comedia pastoril de Torcato, a Morisco Theatrical Performance
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“Los ‘otros’ en el teatro español del siglo XVI: Moriscos y gitanos en la Comedia pastoril de Torcato“, Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), March 2024. Memberships
- The Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
- Society of the Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry (SRBHP)
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
