Mary B. Quinn

Assistant Professor of Spanish

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, and is currently completing a book manuscript, Narrating Absence: From the Moorish Ballad to the Modern Novel. The book engages both literature and history to uncover fundamental connections between nationalist violence, religious identity, and the birth of the novel. She has published articles on Cervantes, the romancero, vihuela texts and music, and has an article forthcoming on Ginés Pérez de Hita.

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.

An award-winning teacher, Quinn regularly gives graduate and undergraduate courses on Cervantes’s Don Quijote and Novelas Ejemplares, Muslims in Spain, courtly love, Early Modern women’s autobiography, Early Modern Theater, and the picaresque novel.