Professor Brownlee's interests include periodization, cultural and linguistic translation, literary representations of the senses, and the relationship of early tabloid literature to the 17th-century short story. She works primarily in Spanish, French, and Italian contexts. Her books include: ...
Professor Brownlee's interests include periodization, cultural and linguistic translation, literary representations of the senses, and the relationship of early tabloid literature to the 17th-century short story. She works primarily in Spanish, French, and Italian contexts. Her books include: The Cultural Labyrinth of María de Zayas, The Severed Word: Ovid’s ‘Heroides’ and the ‘Novela Sentimental’, The Status of the Reading Subject in the ‘Libro de Buen Amor’, and The Poetics of Literary Theory in Lope and Cervantes. She has co-edited a number of volumes on medieval and early modern topics, has edited a special issue of Duke’s Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies entitled Intricate Aliances: Early Modern Spain and England, and most recently Renaissance Encounters. Greek East and Latin West (with Dimitri Gondicas). She is currently writing a book on curiosity and modernity in Early Modern Spain.