Cervantine Perversity Gender, Violence, and Sexuality

Elizabeth Spragins  is Associate Professor in Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross, USA. Her research focuses on authority and identity in early modern Mediterranean narrative and has appeared in  La corónica , ConSecuencias , Medieval Encounters , and postmedieval . 

Sonia Pérez-Villanueva , originally from the Basque Country in Spain, is a scholar of early modern Iberian historical, literary, and visual cultures. Her research explores gender, violence, and representation across texts, images, and archival materials. She is currently working on a monograph on the violence of the Inquisition and the cultural histories of crypto-Jewish women. She is Vice Provost for Liberal Arts & Business and Professor of Spanish and Literature in Translation at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.

Leyla Rouhi teaches at Williams College, USA. She has published numerous articles and chapters on medieval and early modern Iberia as well as Middle Eastern culture. She is the author of Mediation and Love as well as co-editor and contributing author of collected volumes on early modern Spain and gender studies. Her teaching includes Spanish language and Peninsular history, culture and literature.