Biography

Ryan Prendergast's current project analyzes early modern Spanish theater's entremés as a marginal space used to critique Catholic Spain's religious and cultural norms. He is also exploring Alonso de Castillo Solózano's literary representation of class and gender.

Research Overview

Research Interests

• Representations of identity and difference in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish America

Courses Offered (subject to change)

• CLT 101E:  Censorship (Spring 2016)
• CLT 200:  Censorship (Topics in Critical Thinking) (Fall 2018)
• SP 200:  Advanced Spanish Composition (Fall/Spring)
• SP 203:  Origins and Empire: Reading the Early Hispanic World (Fall 2018)
• SP 205:  Spain: Past, Present, and Future (Spring 2015)
• SP 215:  "Don Quixote": The Book, the Myth, the Image (Fall 2016)
• SP 218:  Saints, Sinners, and Sovereigns in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Spring 2018)
• SP 249B:  Stages of Resistance: Representing Identity, Power and Gender in Spanish Theater (Spring 2013)
• SP 249E:  Reading Fables, Telling Tales in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Fall 2016)
• SP/HIS 255:  1492 and Beyond: Identity, Culture, and Society in Colonial Latin America – co-taught with Pablo Sierra (Fall 2017)
• SP 262G:  Colonial Latin American Literature (Fall 2014)

Selected Publications

• Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain. Ashgate, 2011.
• "The Body Politic and Its Parts in El médico de su honra." Bulletin of the Comediantes, vol. 62, no. 1, 2010, pp. 31-46. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/boc.2010.0000.
• "Fear and Control in El celoso extremeño." Hispanic Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, Fall 2010, pp. 9-22.
• "Inquisitorial Theatrics and the Control of Errant Subjects in Don Quixote." Modern Language Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, Summer 2008, pp. 8-25. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40346977.
• "Constructing an Icon: The Subjectivity and Self-Referentiality of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, Fall-Winter 2007, pp. 28-56. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40339579.

Teaching

Literature and cultural history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, with special interest in Don Quijote, early modern theater, Inquisition studies, and transatlantic approaches to early modern literature