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Elena Peña Argüeso

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4027 LCLB
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Education

2025 (expected) Ph.D. Spanish, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2019                 M.A. Spanish, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2014                 M.A. Teaching English as a Foreign Language, University of Sevilla, Spain

2013                 M.A. English, University of Sevilla, Spain

2012                 B.A. English Studies, University of Sevilla, Spain

academic interests

My research interests include Imperial cross-cultural perceptions and images as expressed in Renaissance and Baroque literary works, especially theater and relaciones de sucesos (news pamphlets), as well as the literary representations of the expansions and exchanges between Catholic Spain and the Protestant world in Europe and overseas. I research how literature reflects and manipulates the ways that groups of differing confessions live in proximity. Particularly, the connectedness of the world during the Early Modern period when an unprecedented number of people—Africans, Asians, Americans, and Europeans—made transoceanic journeys.

selected publications

2024     “La vida de San Pedro Nolasco de Lope de Vega: un modelo de santidad a través de la hibridación genérica.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies