16-17th centuries

David Korfhagen

Summary

Education

Ph.D., Spanish Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison                                                   
M.A., Spanish Literature and Linguistics, Bowling Green State University                                 
B.A., Spanish Literature and Linguistics, University of Cincinnati                                              

Teaching

University of Virginia (2018-present)

Loreto Romero

Research Summary

Loreto's (she/ ella) research focuses on Fernando de Rojas’s Celestina (ca. 1499) as a work that radically questions the white Christian-supremacist patriarchal discourses of the state. Instead of reading Celestina as a purely didactic and orthodox piece of literature, she unveils the ways in which Rojas's book does dissident work by representing from an awry perspective the multiple contradictions, faults, and oppositional forces effaced by the ideological fabric of late medieval and early modern Spain.

Allison Bigelow

Research Summary

Allison (she/her/hers/ella) studies colonial science and technology, especially vernacular sciences like agriculture and mining. Her work applies literary methods to texts that bridge the gap between history and literature – scientific treatises, memoriales de arbitristas, legal papers, woodcuts, copperplate engravings, manuscript illustrations – to unearth the contributions of understudied groups, like women, Indigenous, and Afro-descendant artisans.
 
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