Ramon E. Martinez (Ray)

His interest of research exists in the intersection of gender, body, sexuality and identity. At the moment, is focusing on crossdressing in the XVI-XVII centuries, precisely the overly use and positive presence of this "dramatic tool" in the theater of the Spanish Golden Age/Early Modern Era (not only on stage but also out of the stage.) Is focusing in discovering transgressive and pioneer women, other than Catalina de Erauso and Eleno de Cespedes, who appropriate masculine spaces crossdressing as man-varones. His investigation has expanded getting a transatlantic focus researching about the body, gender and social performance of women who were looking to be un-trapped not only in Spain, but while traveling between the old and the new world, in a time where the colonies in the invaded Americas were treated as the "free world;" a space that anything can happen and one that had a blurry vision of freedom for people that were out of the norm and felt different.