Del Claustro al Corral: Women in the Early Modern Hispanic World

This seminar offers a transatlantic survey of women's authorship and representation in early modern Spain and the Americas. Moving "del claustro al corral," we will focus on poetry, life writing, letters, and drama to ask: How did women articulate selfhood, and how were they staged and characterized by others? How did ideas about female identity move across both sides of the Atlantic? How did genre - stage vs. page - shape women's voice or characterization? Did religion affect women's visibility? Case studies trace how genres and ideas about women were adapted and circulated across the Atlantic. Authors will likely include Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Sor Maria de Agreda, Teresa de Avila, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, and Ana Caro de Mallen. This course is taught in Spanish.