Participants

 

Alejandro Cañeque (U Maryland)

Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, specialist in the history of colonial Latin America, early modern Spain, and the Spanish Empire. His main area of research is the political and religious cultures of the early modern Spanish world, with an emphasis on colonial Spanish America and the Spanish Atlantic world.

 

Sarissa Carneiro (PUC Chile)

Profesora Asociada in the Department of Literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her areas of research are colonial Latin American letters, particularly the epic poetry and courtly culture of Peru and Chile, as well as the Spanish early modern literature and the rhetorics and poetics of that period.

 

Judith Farré (CSIC Madrid)

Investigadora principal del Consejo Superio de Investigaciones Científicas. Fue profesora titular en el Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey en México y miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. Sus líneas de investigación giran en torno al Barroco hispánico y el Barroco Transatlántico, el teatro de los Siglos de Oro y las fiestas cortesanas en España y América.

Beatriz Ferrús (UA Barcelona)

Profesora titular en el Departamento de Filología Española de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Se especializa en la literatura hispanoamericana desde sus orígenes hasta el siglo XIX; y en la literatura de mujeres y la  escritura conventual de los siglos XVI-XVIIi.

 

Paul Firbas (Stony Brook U)

Associate Professor in the Dept of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. He specializes in Spanish-American texts of the colonial period. His research deals with epic poetry, textual criticism, historiography, the colonial geography of transatlantic South America. and the history of media in colonial Peru.

Brooke Larson (Stony Brook U)

Professor in the Department of History at Stony Brook University. Her areas of interests include colonial and post-colonial  Latin America, Bolivia, peasants, race, ethnicity. Her graduate teaching fields encompass Latin America’s colonial and modern periods, with a regional focus on the Andes.

Karen Lloyd (Stony Brook U)

Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Stony Brook University. She specializes in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art,. Focusing primarily on papal Rome, her work traces the socio-political dynamics of art patronage, production, and reception. She engages with, among other things, the history of collecting and display, Bernini and Baroque sculpture, and the polemics of the early modern devotional image.

Fernando Loffredo (UC Boulder)

Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art in the Department of Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His primary research interests are trans-Mediterranean artistic relations, sculpture and the urban space, and the dialogues between art and poetry in the early modern world, with a particular focus on the Spanish Empire and the Italian Peninsula.

Esperanza López Parada (UC Madrid)

Profesora titular en el Departamento de Filología Española IV e investigadora principal de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y coordinadora del Programa de Doctorado y del Máster en Literatura Hispanoamericana. Sus áreas principales de investigación son los textos e imágenes del período virreinal, especialmente en el área andina; y la teoría cultural y poesía.

Andrew Newman (Stony Brook U)

Professor of English in the Department of English at Stony Brook University. He specializes in early American texts and native American cultures, as well as in media and memory Studies and the history of the High School literary canon.

José A. Rodríguez Garrido (PUC Perú)

Profesor principal en el Departamento de Humanidades, sección de Literatura, en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Sus investigaciones se concentran en el estudio de las estrategias retóricas de debate y autorrepresentación en la prosa colonial hispanoamericana, así como del teatro y la fiesta barroca como vehículos de expresión de las tensiones dentro de la sociedad colonial.

 

Víctor Roncero-López (Stony Brook U)

Professor in the Dept of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. His research and published papers focus on humanist issues, historiography, the Picaresque novel, Petrarchist poetry, Bufoonesque literature, and Autos Sacramentales. He has edited works from medieval Cancionero poetry, Fernando de Herrera, Quevedo, Carlos García, and Calderón.

 

 

Bernardino de Sahagún and Mexica artistis, Codex Florentino, c. 1570