Ph.D. 1995 (Spanish and Portuguese), Yale University; M.A. 1990, Yale University; A.B. 1986 (History and Literature), Harvard University.
Gigi Dopico
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages & Literatures
Early-modern Spanish literatures and cultures; cultural history; the body / anatomy; biopolitics; human / animal studies; gender studies; translation studies; canon formation / libraries; nation / empire; transatlantic studies; Cervantes
Books:
USA Cervantes: 39 Cervantistas en Estados Unidos. (Co-editor with Francisco Layna). Madrid: CSIC / Polifemo, 2009. 1220 pages.
Perfect Wives, Other Women: Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. 327 pages. Winner of the 2001 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize.
Suplemento al Tesoro de la Lengua Española Castellana de Sebastián de Covarrubias (with Jacques Lezra.) Madrid: Polifemo, 2001. 723 pages.
En un lugar de la Mancha: Homenaje a Manuel Durán. (Co-editor with Roberto González Echevarría.) Salamanca: Ediciones Almar, 1999.
Recent Articles:
“Sueños de la nación” in IV Centenario Covarrubias, Real Academia Conquense de Artes y Letras. José Luis Calero López de Ayala, editor. Cuenca: RACAL, 2011.
“Pierre Menard, traductor del Quijote or Echo’s Echoes” Cervantes 31.1 (Spring 2011): 27-49.
“The Ban and the Bull: Animal Studies, Cultural Studies and Spain” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 11.3-4 (2010): 235-249.
“Cultural / Political Reflection: JSCS @ 10” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 11.3-4 (2010): 219-222.
“Anatomies of a Saint: The Ecstatic Body of Teresa de Avila” in A Companion to Spanish Women Studies. Geraldine Coates and Xon de Ros, eds. London: Tamesis, 2010
“Public bodies, private parts" in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2001.
“Ghostly Remains" in Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Volume 7, 2003, pp. 91-100