Dr. Carrasco’s research focuses on contemporary Spanish and Transatlantic studies. Building on her doctoral work on the autobiographical metafictions of Miguel de Unamuno, Rosa Montero, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Juan José Millás, she examines the ways in which contemporary hybrid genres … Read more

Prof. Rivero is working on a book project titled “Nature in Contemporary Latin(a) American Literature: Ecology, Gender, and Race,” which shows how all of these concepts are interrelated and studies them in selected literary works. Besides publishing articles on ecocritical … Read more

Objects surround us in our everyday lives. We make them, we use them, we accumulate them, and sometimes we obsess over them. Yet, we often pay little attention to how they shape our interactions with the world. My research focuses … Read more

At the crossroads of translation, cultural exchange, humanistic rhetoric, the medical schools of Italy and France, printing, and transnational conversations, Opera Mesuae represents a paradigm of Renaissance medical anthropology. In comparing a number of entries by Giovanni Manardo and Jacques … Read more