On March 9-11, 2023, SPO students, alumni and faculty came together and presented their research at the 69th Annual Meeting of Renaissance Society of America in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

Graduate Students

Yangyou Fang (G-5) presented “The Joy and Challenges of Working with Multilingual Sources in The Spanish Pacific (1571–1815)” at the Roundtable How to be An Early Modern Scholar.

Ashford King (G-3) presented “The Various Baratarias: Quixotic Toponymy in the Americas” at Panel Space and the Literary Charting of New Horizons: Examples from Early Modern Iberia.

David Rivera (G-2) presented “Anxieties of Erasure and Clothing Practices in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Manila” at Panel Contested Erasure in Colonial Latin America.

Chloe Wheeler (G-2) from the Department of Comparative Literature presented “Muladares y mujeres: Subaltern Spaces of Self-Abjection in the Spiritual Diary of Úrsula de Jesús” at Panel Analogy: Thinking Through the Renaissance.

Faculty

Professor Marina Brownlee presented “Iberia's Sixteenth-Century Encyclopedism: Mexía, Huarte, and Torquemada” at Panel Space and the Literary Charting of New Horizons: Examples from Early Modern Iberia.

Professor Christina Lee presented “Sacred Subversion by Idolatrous Accommodation” at Panel Sacred Subversions: Reframing Objects of Subaltern Devotion across Iberian Worlds II. She was also invited to speak at two roundtables: Empires, Environments, Objects: Connecting Visual and Material Cultures across the Spanish World and Reflections on the Early Modern Iberian/Colonial Studies Divide.

Alumni

Dr. Sophia Blea Nuñez, PhD 2019, Visiting Assistant Professor at Dominican University, presented “Engendering Texts in Early Modern Spain and New Spain: Whose Children Are They Anyway?” at Panel Metaphors of Books, Books as Metaphors.

Kathryn Phipps, AB 2019, graduate student at University of Pennsylvania, presented “Authoritative Evaluations: Inquisition and its Writing Women” at Panel Text and Authority in the Early Modern Era.