Mission Statement

GEMELA strives to unite scholars across traditional disciplinary boundaries through its focus on women's cultural production in medieval and early modern Spain and colonial Latin America through 1800. Our purpose is to distribute information and knowledge about women and their role as cultural producers. Our conferences and publications encourage teaching and research based on all approaches related to our principal field of inquiry.

News

2013-04-21: The newsletter for Spring 2013 has been published and is available for download in our website.

2012-09-18: The GEMELA panel at the upcoming MLA conference in Boston will take place on Saturday, 05 January 2013 at 10:15–11:30 a.m., 205, Hynes. The presentations will be:

  1. “Found in Translation: Sor Juana’s Global Crossing to the Boards of the Bard,” Susan L. Fischer, Bucknell Univ.
  2. “A Hagiographic Árbol Genealógico en Route: Sor María de Jesús de Agreda in Manila,” Anna Maria Nogar, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
  3. “Lyrical Navigations and Poetic Authority: The Transatlantic Epístola of the Colonial Amarilis to Lope de Vega,” Mark J. Mascia, Sacred Heart Univ.
  4. “Looking toward Africa and America: Mencia de Mendoza,” Rosa Helena Chinchilla, Univ. of Connecticut.
You can find a copy of the abstracts here.

2012-03-25: You can now read here the most recent issue of the GEMELA Newsletter. For older ones, go the newsletter page.