Associate Professor of Spanish

PhD, University of Virginia 1997
MA, University of Virginia 1993
Licenciatura, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 1986

Email - mmgongora@vcu.edu
Phone - 804.827.3401
Fax - 804.828.0127

Office - Lafayette Hall, Rm 205
            312 N. Shafer St.
            Richmond, VA 23220

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Dr. Mar M. Góngora is an Associate Professor of Spanish. She holds a Licenciatura en Filología Hispanica from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (1986), and an M.A and Ph.D. in Spanish literature from the University of Virginia (1997). Her interests include Early Modern Spanish prose and poetry and Contemporary Peninsular Spanish novel, particularly women studies, critical race and ethnic theory, cultural materialism and historical fiction.

Dr. Mar M. Góngora is the author of a book on the discourses on women written by humanist authors of the Spanish Renaissance. She also authored a second book on textual representations of Early Modern masculinities in Spain. She has published articles on Imperial politics in Garcilaso de la Vega's poetry, gender issues in works by Cervantes, Boscán, Garcilaso de la Vega, Antonio de Guevara, Juan de Valdés, Alfonso de Valdés and Pedro de Mexía, the construction of ethnic differences in texts by Pedro de Valencia, Gaspar Aguilar, Luis del Mármol Carvajal and in Viaje de Turquía, the invention of whiteness in Quevedo and the feminine subjectivity in Luisa Sigea's works. Dr. Mar M. Góngora was the recipient of the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Humanities and Sciences Research Excellence Award (2004).