Faculty
Associate Professor
Mary E. Barnard
Mary E. Barnard (PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Michigan) teaches graduate courses in early modern Spanish poetry and prose, and undergraduate courses in the literature and culture of Spain. Her research interests include classical mythology, visual and material culture, and contemporary literary theory. Professor Barnard has received fellowships and grants from the National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, NC), the American Council of Learned Societies, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as well as a H. Rubinstein University Endowed Fellowship in the Humanities and a research fellowship from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
She has published articles and reviews in PMLA, Renaissance Quarterly, Hispanic Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Romanic Review, among others, and has contributed chapters to edited collections. Her book, The Myth of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid to Quevedo: Love, Agon, and the Grotesque, was published by Duke University Press. She is completing a book, The Poetry of Things: Staging Material Sites in Garcilaso de la Vega, in which she explores how Garcilaso uses the discursive representation of material objects as sites for the fashioning of personal, social, and political identity.
Professor Barnard is also working on a volume titled Modeling the Self: Body and Vision in Poets of Early Modern Spain which examines the intersections of the rhetoric of the body and discourses of vision to map the nature of the self in six poets of the Spanish Golden Age. She has presented papers related to this volume at the MLA and the Renaissance Society of America. For the 2008 Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Chicago), she has organized four panels on visual and material culture in early modern Spain.
