Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Stephanie Merrim
Professor Emerita of Hispanic Studies, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature
Research Interests
16th-Century New World Historiography; the Baroque; 17th-Century Women's Writing in Spanish, English, and French; Contemporary North and South American Literatures; Latin American Existentialism
Biography
Stephanie Merrim came to Brown University in 1981 and is a member of the Departments of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies. She teaches a variety of courses in early modern and 20th-century literature. Her book, The Spectacular City: Mexico and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture (University of Texas Press, 2010) received the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize from the Modern Language Association for an outstanding work in Hispanic Studies. She is also the author of Early Modern Women’s Writing and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Vanderbilt University Press, 1999).