Mercedes Alcalá-Galán
Lecturer, Ph.D., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Professor Alcalá-Galán is a specialist in Early Modern Spanish literature. Her research is oriented primarily towards topics in poetics, literary theory, gender studies and cultural studies with regard to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain. She has also been working on questions concerning contemporary women's literature. She is the author of the book La silva curiosa de Julián de Medrano. Estudio y edición critica (1998) and has published over thirty articles on Early Modern literature as well as contemporary Spanish literature and cinema. She is currently completing a book on Cervantine poetics and is researching aspects regarding the literary and pictorial representations of women's sexuality in Early Modern art and literature.
