Rosilie Hernández-Pecoraro (Ph.D. University of California)
Assistant Professor of Spanish
rosieher@uic.edu


My areas of specialization are medieval and early modern literatures of Spain. I received my doctorate from the University of California, Irvine. My research interests include pastoral literature, Cervantes, and female authors of the medieval and early modern periods. My theoretical interests include psychoanalysis, gender, and historiography. I am presently preparing a book titled Subjects of Love: Gender Politics in the Early Modern Spanish Pastoral. I am also a co-editor of and contributor to an edition that includes feminist readings of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures, culture, and visual arts. In addition, I have published and have forthcoming a number of articles and book reviews about Spanish early modern literature, including "The Absence of the Absence of Women: Cervantes's Don Quixote and the Explosion of the Pastoral Tradition," in Cervantes, XVIII, 1 (Spring, 1998); "La fuerza del amor or the Power of Self-Love: Zayas´s response to Cervantes's La fuerza de la sangre," Hispanic Review, forthcoming; "Dorotea as Female Subject: The limits of the Object in the Quixote," Hispanófila, forthcoming; and Jarifa's Choice: A Gendered Reading of El Abencerraje y la hermosa Jarifa," Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, forthcoming. My graduate seminars include topics such as the politics of identity in medieval literature, early modern literature and psychoanalytic theories of subjectivity, and women writers of the medieval and early modern Spain.


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