Title
Professor

Department
Dept of Spanish and Portuguese


Faculty URL
http://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-research-overview/

Email
elb@berkeley.edu

Fax
(510) 642-6957


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Research Expertise and Interest
early modern Spain, Spanish literature, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, visual studies, gender and sexuality studies, 20th Century Spanish women writers

Research Description
Professor Bergmann’s current research projects include gender and sexuality in early modern Spain and colonial Spanish America, and optics in Hispanic baroque poetry. Recent articles on: madness and poetry in Cervantes; the visual and the aural in the poetry of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz; representations of the nurturing body in early modern Spain; and cross-dressing, gender transgression and violence in early modern Spanish theater.
She is co-editor of: Routledge Research Companion to the Works of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (2017); Approaches to Teaching Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (MLA, 2007) Mirrors and Echoes: Women's Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain?(UCPress/IAS, 2007) Entiendes: Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings (Duke, 1995).