MarÃa Cristina Quintero
Department/Subdepartment
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University.
M.A., University of Pennsylvania.
B.A., Queens College, CUNY.
Areas of Focus
Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Spanish literature, women writers, gender studies, Cervantes, lyric, and theater.
Biography
Maria Cristina Quintero has been teaching at ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï since 1993. She recently published two co-edited volumes: (Routledge, 2016) and (Escribana Books, 2015). Her second single-authored book was published in 2012 by Ashgate, U.K. In addition, she is the author of and the editor of Luis de Góngora, a special issue of CalÃope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. She has published numerous reviews and articles on Renaissance theories of translation, gender and lyric poetry, and the politics of the comedia in Hapsburg Spain. Her articles have appeared in MLN, Hispanic Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Bulletin of the Comediantes, and Cervantes; and in anthologies on early modern studies, including Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain, Writing for the Eye: Literature and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Spain and Crossing the Channel: Symbolic and Material Circulations Between Spain and England.
She teaches courses on Cervantes, the picaresque, the development of the lyric in Renaissance Spain and Italy, Spanish drama, introduction to Comparative Literature, and the representation of women in Spanish literature. She has also been invited to teach graduate seminars at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland.