"Las vidas de Francisco de Borja y las normas del género." Francisco de Borja y su tiempo: Política, religión y cultura en la edad moderna. Ed. Enrique García Hernán and Pilar Ryan. Valencia and Rome: Albatros ediciones and Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2011. 681-87.
Elizabeth Rhodes
Professor of Hispanic Studies
Professor of Hispanic Studies
romance languages and literatures
Academic Degrees
Ph.D., M.A., Bryn Mawr College; B.A., Westhampton College, University of Richmond, Virgina
Research Areas
Early modern Spanish literature; theology and religious culture; women’s studies and feminist theory
Books
Dressed to Kill: Death and Meaning in Zayas's Desengaños. Toronto, London: Univ. Toronto Press, 2011.
María de Zayas y Sotomayor. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion. Introduction, translation, edition, with Margaret Greer. Chicago: University Chicago Press, 2009.
This Tight Embrace: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (1566-1614). Introduction, Critical Edition, Translation of selected works. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2000.
The Unrecognized Precursors of La Diana by Montemayor. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1992.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
“Teresa de Jesús’s Book and the Reform of the Religious Man in Sixteenth-Century Spain.” Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality. Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900. Eds. Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Carmen M. Mangion. London: Palgrave, 2010. 68-82.
"Gender in the Night. Juan de la Cruz y Cecilia del Nacimiento." Studies on Women's Lyric Poetry of the Golden Age. Tras el espejo la musa escribe Ed. Julián Olivares. Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2009. 202-17.
"Mysticism and History: The Case of Spain's Golden Age." Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Avila and the Spanish Mystics. Ed. Alison Weber. New York: MLA, 2009. 47-56.
"Join the Jesuits, See the World: Women and the Society of Jesus." The Jesuits II. Cultures, Sciences and the Arts, 1540-1773. Eds. John W. O'Malley et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 33-47.
"The Economics of Salvation in El esclavo del demonio." Bulletin of the Comediantes, 59.2 (2008): 281-302.
"Gender in the Night. Juan de la Cruz y Cecilia del Nacimiento." Calíope 13.2 (2007): 39-61.
"Redressing Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer." Hispanic Review 73.3 (2005): 309-28.
Recent Papers and Presentations
"María de Zayas and St. Beatriz of Rome." Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Forum for the Study of Early Modern Women in Continental Europe. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. September 2010.
"Gender, History, and Luisa de Carvajal's Letters." Luisa de Carvajal, Her Life, Times and Works. Valladolid, Spain. June 2010.
"Las vidas de Francisco de Borja y la cuestión del género." Congreso internacional Francisco de Borja y su tiempo. Valencia, Spain. April 2010.
“Visual Literacy and the Art of Inquisitorial Spain.” In conjunction with the exhibit, El Greco to Velázquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III. Nash Museum, Duke University. October 2008.
“What is Mysticism?” Dept. of Humanities, Duke University, October 2008.
“The Arts of Inquisition during the Age of Velázquez and El Greco.” In conjunction with the exhibit, El Greco to Velázquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March-April 2008.
“Who Was Mary Magdalen? A Conversation.” St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church. Wellesley, MA., November 2007.
“Mary Magdalen: A Literary Archeology.” Center for Twenty-first Century Studies. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, November 2006.
“Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza: To the Greater Glory of God.” Dallo Spirito alla Struttura: Le Constituzioni e lo sviluppo della cultura gesuitica. Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Roma, October 2006.
“Spain’s Sonnet ‘No me mueve, mi Dios,’ Antidote to Mel Gibson.” The Gifford Lecture. Tufts University, Boston, MA, April 2004.
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Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Lyons Hall 304E
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3804
Phone: 617-552-3836
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Email: elizabeth.rhodes@bc.edu
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