Montserrat Perez-Toribio
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
Degrees
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago
M.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
B.A., Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Main Interests
16th and 17th Century Spanish Literature
Catalan Studies
Late Medieval Spanish Literature
Gender Studies and Women writers
Performances
"From Mother to Daughter: The Role of Women's Education in the Correspondence between the Countess of Palamós and her Daughter,Estefanía de Requeséns." Women's Education in Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America. Organized by University of Illinois at Chicago and the Cervantes Institute of Chicago. April 3-4, 2009
"Dorotea: Cervantes' Perfect Doncella." Presented at The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies. Annual Cervantes Symposium. April 26, 2008.
"The Representation of Women's Work in Don Quixote." Presented at The
Renaissance Society of America. March 22-24, 2007.
"Mothers and Business Women in the Sixteenth Century: Correspondence between two Catalan women." Presented at AEEA-AHCT Conference. October 5-7, 2006.
"Genre and Gender Excesses in María de Zayas´s La traición en la amistad." Presented at MMLA. April, 2003.
"Boquitas Pintadas: Linguistic survival in the subversive discourses of Cervantes female characters." Presented at The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies. Second Annual Cervantes Symposium. April 27, 2002.
"The Feminization of the Traditional Nation in Ana Caro´s Plays and Relaciones." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. March 29-31, 2001.