Faculty
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Sherry VelascoProfessor of Spanish and Portuguese and Gender StudiesInterim Chair Contact Information E-mail: svelasco@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-7659 Office: THH 156M |
Education
- Ph.D. Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, 6/1992
Description of Research
Research Specialties
Areas of specialization: Early Modern Spanish prose and theater; early modern women’s narrative. Interests: Gender studies, queer theory, and visual cultural studies.
Sherry Velasco is the author of four books:
Lesbians in Early Modern Spain (Vanderbilt University Press, forthcoming);
Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain (Vanderbilt University Press, 2006);
The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso (University of Texas Press, 2000);
Demons, Nausea, and Resistance in the Autobiography of Isabel de Jesús 1611-1682 (University of New Mexico Press, 1996).
- Department of Spanish and Portuguese
- Taper Hall of Humanities 156
- 3501 Trousdale Parkway
- University of Southern California
- Los Angeles, California 90089-0358
- Phone: (213) 740 - 1258
- Email: spanish@usc.edu