LAS VIDAS DEL ALFÉREZ CATALINA DE ERAUSO. SOBRE LOS GÉNEROS DE LA AUTOBIOGRAFÍA EN EL ANTIGUO RÉGIMEN

Department: Spanish and Portuguese

Date and Time: April 27, 2021 | 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Event Location: Zoom

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The lecture will be given by Professor Miguel Martínez from The University of Chicago
Miguel Martínez (PhD, CUNY-Graduate Center) is Associate Professor in the Department of Romance
Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. His research focuses on the cultural and literary
histories of early modern Iberia and colonial Latin America. He is the author of articles and book chapters
on topics such as war writing, book history, epic poetry, and popular culture. His book Front Lines:
Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2016) explores the writing and reading practices of the Spanish popular soldiery in both the Old and the
New World. In his book Comuneros. El rayo y la semilla (1520-1521) (Hoja de Lata Editorial, 2021) he
offers a new history of the revolution of the comuneros. He has finished a critical edition of Catalina de
Erauso’s Vida that for the first time takes into account the entire manuscript tradition of the text

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