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Research Interests
Early Modern Iberian Literature and Culture
Research Description
My research focuses on the representation of race, ethnicity, and class difference in early modern Spain. I have published The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2013), “Moors Dressed as Moors”: Clothing, Social Distinction, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia (University of Toronto Press, 2017), and Dystopias of Infamy: Insult and Collective Identity in Early Modern Spain (Bucknell University Press, 2022).
Education
Ph.D. Romance Languages. University of Pennsylvania
M.A. in Hispanic Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder
B.A. in Hispanic Philology, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Awards and Honors
LAS Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar (2020)
Conrad Humanities Scholar (2016)
Helen Corley Petit Scholar (2014)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Honors & Awards
2016-2021. Conrad Humanities Scholar. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
2014-2015. Helen Corley Petit Scholar. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Highlighted Publications
BOOKS
Dystopias of Infamy: Insult and Collective Identity in Early Modern Spain. Bucknell University Press (2022).
Moors Dressed as Moors: Clothing, Social Distinction, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
- Spanish translation: “Moros vestidos como moros”: Indumentaria, distinción social y etnicidad en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2019.
The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
EDITED VOLUMES
co-edited with Marcus Keller. The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
ARTICLES
“Don Quixote’s Journey from Castile to Aragon as a Nostalgic Search for Jousting.” Cervantes 39.2 (2019): 19-42.
“La mirada musulmana sobre la cultura festiva de la España de los siglos XVI y XVII.” Sharq-al-Andalus 22 (2017-2018): 237-254.
“La expulsión de los moriscos en El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (1614) de Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda.” Modern Language Notes (MLN) 131.2 (2016): 336-355.
“‘Como hacen los moros a los cristianos’: Raza, género e identidad cultural en ‘Tarde llega el desengaño’ de María de Zayas.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 40.2 (2016): 437-450.
““Will you deliver Spain from bondage?”: Romancing the Spanish Inquisition in Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain (2006).” Baroque Projections. Eds. Frédéric Conrod and Michael Horswell. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2016. 151-166.
“‘Ni chivato ni carnero’: La construcción de la diferencia étnica en la comedia Los moriscos de Hornachos.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 91.8 (2014): 1159-1174.
“The Game of Canes between the Lusus Troiae and the Albanian Stradioti: Defining Moorish and Classical in the Early Modern Spanish Mediterranean.” Mediterranean Identities in the Premodern Era: Islands, Entrepôts, Empires. Eds. John Watkins and Kathryn L. Reyerson. Burlington: Ashgate, 2014. 231-47.
“Discursos patriótico-aristocráticos sobre la ‘nación gallega’ a comienzos del siglo XVII: a propósito de Tragedias de amor (1607 y 1647) de Juan de Arce Solorzeno.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 14.3 (2013): 231-37.
“‘Libia en Toledo’: ‘lo moro’ en Las firmezas de Isabela de Luis de Góngora.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 47.3 (2013): 375-395.
“Jerónimo de Arbolanche’s Las Abidas (1566) and the Mythical Origins of Spain.” Symposium 67.2 (2013): 85-97.
(in collaboration with José Ignacio Hualde) “Translation and Retranslation in the Anonymous Refranes y Sentencias of 1596.” Neophilologus 97.3 (2013): 497-512.
“Topografía del dolor: narración, identidad y enfermedad en la Vida y trabajos de Jerónimo de Pasamonte.” Crítica Hispánica 34.2 (2012): 101-117.
“‘Poco os falta para moros, pues tanto lo parecéis’: Impersonating the Moor in the Spanish Mediterranean.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 12.3 (2011): 355-369.
“Identidad colectiva, genealogía y novela pastoril: el manuscrito en euskera de Juan Pérez de Lazarraga.” Hispanic Research Journal 12.4 (2011): 291-305.
“Diana and Wild Boar Hunting: Refiguring Gender and Ethno-Religious Conflict in the Pastoral Imaginary.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 88.3 (2011): 273-287.
“‘La música ha sido hereje:’ Pastoral Performance and Cultural Hybridity in Los Baños de Argel.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 62.2 (2010): 45-62.
“‘Les bergers qui conquirent l’Espagne’: Pastoral, Transnational Ethnicity and Empire in Philippe Quinault’s La généreuse ingratitude.” Transitions: Journal of Franco-Iberian Studies 5 (2009): 38-56.
“‘¡Qué si destas diferencias de música resuena la de los albogues!’: lo pastoril y lo morisco en Cervantes.” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 28.2 (2008): 119-146.
“El problema morisco en Los baños de Argel: de renegados a mártires cristianos.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 32.3 (2008): 421-38.
“‘Si no es adivinando la mitad del pergamino’: Discurso y realidad en La ilustre fregona.” Novelas ejemplares: Las grietas de la ejemplaridad. Ed. Julio Baena. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2008. 227-249.
“El espacio doméstico como espacio épico en la Vida de Miguel de Castro.” Hispanófila 151 (2007): 21-35.
“Ascensión social y enfrentamiento entre negros en El valiente negro en Flandes de Andrés de Claramonte: una aproximación postcolonial.” Afro–Hispanic Review 24.2 (2005): 151-164.
Recent Publications
García, J. I. (2019). Don Quixote's Journey from Castile to Aragon as a Nostalgic Search for Jousting. Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, 39(2), 19-42. https://doi.org/10.1353/cer.2019.0020
Irigoyen-García, J. (2018). El pastor de Iberia by Bernardo de la Vega (review). Bulletin of the Comediantes, 70(2), 205-207. https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2018.0037
Irigoyen-García, J. (2018). Review: O. R. Constable's To Live Like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. Church History, 87(3), 876-878. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640718001907
Irigoyen Garcia, J. (2017). Moors Dressed as Moors: Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia. (Toronto Iberic). University of Toronto Press.
Irigoyen-García, J. (2017). La mirada musulmana sobre la cultura festiva de la España de los siglos XVI y XVII. Sharq Al-Andalus, 22, 237-254. https://doi.org/10.14198/ShAnd.2017-2018.22.12