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
Research Interests
Late Medieval,16th and 17th Century Spanish Literature
Catalan Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Teaching Interests
HISP 320: Spanish Women in the Golden Age (crosslisted with Women Studies 325)
HISP 320: The Picaresque Underworld
HISP 320: Crossing ranks: Vice and virtue in Spanish Golden Age literature
HISP 398: Love, Madness and Technology in Don Quixote
HISP 400: Islamic Spain
Publications
"From Mother to Daughter: Educational Lineage in the Correspondence between the Countess of Palamós and Estefania de Requesens" in Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World. Ed. Anne J. Cruz and Rosilie Hernández-Pecoraro. Aldershot, UK; Burlington,VT: Ashgate, 2011.
Presentations
"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. |
