Scholarship and Biography

After professorships at Columbia University and Brandeis from 1980 until 2017, as emerita I remain actively engaged in research and writing. Following my 2019 book on masculinity in seventeenth-century Spanish letters, I continue to focus on gender and sexuality during that period. My most recent publications trace these currents running through Cervantes’s Don Quijote, as well as works by Lope de Vega and María de Zayas. I am now exploring the network of gender reveals (involving transvestism) in the theater of Guillén de Castro, Cristóbal de Monroy y Silva, and Francisco de Villegas.

Honors

Fellowship for recent Ph.D. recipients
American Council of Learned Societies (United States, New York) - ACLS, 1983
Federico de Onís Fellowship
Government of Spain (Spain, Madrid), 1984
Treaty Grant
Council for International Exchange of Scholars (United States, Washington D.C.) - CIES, 1985-1986
Nomination, Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize
Modern Language Association (United States, New York) - MLA, 1991
Nomination, Bernard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History
American Society for Theatre Research (United States, Santa Cruz) - ASTR, 1991
Grant for participation in Women's Studies faculty seminar, Brandeis University
Hewlett Foundation (United States, Menlo Park), 2001-2002
Women's and Gender Studies Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Brandeis University, March 18, 2009: "Hercules and the Half-Blood Prince: Staging Masculinity and Nationalism in Early Modern Spain"
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2009

Organizational Affiliations

Professor Emerita of Hispanic Studies, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of Romance Studies, Brandeis University

Education

Duke University
Ph.D.
Duke University
M.A.
University of Oregon
B.A.