Mary B. Quinn

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Ortega 407
(505) 277-3732
E-mail: mbquinn@unm.edu

Research areas:

• 16th and 17th century Spanish literature, especially the novel and Cervantes.
• Cultural and interdisciplinary studies.
• Secular music, in particular the vihuela repertoire and early zarzuela.

Mary Quinn received her PhD in 2005 from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. She examines the ways in which the formation of both the nation and the empire of Spain are reflected in the cultural production of the Early Modern period. She is particularly interested in the depiction of Moors and Moriscos in literature and their relationship to the shaping of a Christian identity. She studies the emergence of the novel within this contentious field of social and cultural relationships.

A trained singer, Quinn is dedicated to interdisciplinary studies. She has performed and translated numerous Early Modern Spanish texts for professional performance, most notably, the 17th century zarzuela, Salir el Amor del Mundo.

Selected publication: “Handless Maidens, Modern Texts: A New Reading of Cervantes’s the Captive’s Tale.” MLN, Volume 123, Number 2, March (2008)