FACULTY 
Sonia Pérez Villanueva
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Areas of Expertise and Interest
- Women studies
- Spanish and Portuguese early-modern literatures and cultures
- Contemporary peninsular studies, in particular autobiography, theatre and film
- Modern Literary Theory
Courses Taught (RLSP)
- RLSP 101(F)-W88-102(S) Elementary Spanish
- RLSP 104(S) Upper Intermediate Spanish
- RLSP 201(F) The Cultures of Spain
- RLSP 255(F) Women’s Autobiographies in Post-Franco Spain (Same as Women’s and Gender Studies 255)
- RLSP 301(S) Cervantes’ Don Quijote
Education
- BA, University of the Basque Country, Spain, 1996.
- MA, University of the Basque Country, Spain, 1999.
- Ph.D. University of Birmingham, UK, 2008. Title of the thesis: “Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez, an Early-Modern Autobiography".
Selected publications:
- “Vida i sucesos de la Monja Alférez: Spanish Dictatorship, Basque Identity, and
the Tug-of-War over a Political Heroine.”
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (University of Liverpool, UK), 83.4 (2006), 337-349. - "La Monja Alférez: a text misplaced or lost in the literary canon” published at the
proceedings of the conference Antes y después del Quijote: Valencia 2005, en el
50 aniversario de la AHGBI in Valencia, April, 2005, pp. 663-677. - “The illustrative life of Mariana Alcoforado”, Anglo-Portuguese Journal.
Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses (Lisbon: Fundação para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, 12 (2003), 35-60.
- “Autobiography and Theatre: the Spectacle of the Self in Alonso de Contreras’s Discurso de mi vida.” To be presented at the Annual Conference of the AISO (Asociación Internacional del Siglo de Oro), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 2008.
- “Autobiography and the ‘Discovery’ of New Worlds: a Comparative Analysis of Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios.” Submitted
- “La inocencia castigada: A Comparative Study of María de Zayas with Icíar Bollaín”. To be presented at the Annual Conference of GEMELA (Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas -pre-1800), California State University, Long Beach, October 2008.
- “A memoir, a Pastiche or a Marginal Text? Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez and its Early Criticism”. To be submitted in February 2009.
