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Mar Góngora, PhD
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 PhD, University of Virginia 1997 Email - mmgongora@vcu.edu Office - Lafayette Hall, Rm 205 Mar M. Góngora is Associate Professor of Spanish. She holds a Licenciatura in Filología Hispánica from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (1986), an M.A and a Ph.D. in Spanish literature from the University of Virginia (1997). Dr. Góngora investigates Renaissance and Baroque Spanish Literature and Culture. In her research, she studies the confluence of gender construction and the production of ethnic difference in the context of Imperial politics. She is the author of numerous studies on Golden Age poetry and prose that have appeared in journals including Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Hispanic Review, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Hispanófila, MLN, Cervantes, Revista Hispánica Moderna and Neophilologus. She has published three books entitled Discursos sobre la mujer en el Renacimiento español: los casos de Antonio de Guevara, Alfonso y Juan de Valdés y Luis de León (1999), El hombre atemperado: Autocontrol, disciplina y masculinidad (2005), La apropiación masculina del espacio doméstico rural en textos españoles del Renacimiento (2010). She is currently completing a fourth book length project on the Spanish-Islamic frontier of the Renaissance. She teaches a variety of courses on the Literature and Cultures of Spain. |