April 17, 2023
Numerous scientific reports clearly describe the drastically declining health of species and ecosystems worldwide, but most of them fail to emphasize the cultural narratives, power relations, and historical dynamics that… READ MORE
December 13, 2022
Why read the stories of María de Zayas y Sotomayor? That’s easy to answer. She wrote page-turning stories of desire, love, and disillusion; and published them in Spain nearly 400… READ MORE
November 22, 2022
Ecuadorian literature is among the most exciting Latin American writing today. Authors like Mónica Ojeda (Guayaquil, 1988), María Fernanda Ampuero (Guayaquil, 1976) and Gabriela Alemán (1968) are winning and being shortlisted for international prizes, and their… READ MORE
November 15, 2022
Let’s approach the picaresque by way of irony. It could be said that all great narratives depend on irony, which might include the unexpected, the paradoxical, and the ambiguous. A… READ MORE
March 22, 2022
Gender Violence in Twenty-First-Century Latin American Women’s Writing argues for foregrounding the violence and contempt against women in the region, which are routinely addressed as collateral to other problems. This… READ MORE
January 21, 2022
In Federico García Lorca: The Poetry in All Things, I set out to give a sense of what it is that has made Lorca such a household name. To this… READ MORE
July 30, 2021
During my childhood, if you had told me that I would write a book about fashion, with a focus on sewing, I wouldn’t have believed you. As a young girl,… READ MORE
March 25, 2019
Tamesis provides a forum for the best current work relating to all periods of the literature, cinema, history, art, and music of the Iberian Peninsula, Latin America, and the Caribbean…. READ MORE
January 21, 2019
Ramon Llull (ca. 1232-1316) is one of mediaeval Europe’s most unique and complex figures. Linked from an early age to the court of the King of Majorca, when he turned… READ MORE
October 5, 2018
Gustavo San Román is in Montevideo on research leave from the University of St Andrews to work on Uruguayan literature and culture, as he has done throughout his career. Here… READ MORE
On the “superficiality” of eighteenth-century women’s education