Tania de Miguel Magro, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish
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Dr. de Miguel has a Licenciatura in Hispanic Philology form Universidad Complutense in Madrid and a Ph. D. in Hispanic Literature from Stony Brook University.
Dr. de Miguel specializes in Early Modern Spanish Theater. She is particularly interested in issues of gender and subversion. She is the author of Staging Violence: Gender and Social Control in Jácaras and Entremeses (Routledge, 2021) and the co-editor of Social Justice in the Spanish Golden Age Theatre (University of Toronto Press, 2021). She has also published critical editions of El príncipe inocente by Lope de Vega (co-edited with Erin A. Cowling, Agilice, 2019) La misma conciencia acusa (co-edited with Elena Di Pinto, Reichenberger, 2011), and Los engaños de un engaño by Agustín Moreto (Stockcero, 2008). Her work has appeared in journals such as Cervantes, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Romance Quarterly, RILCE, Anagnórisis, Cincinnati Romance Review, Postcript, Hipertexto, Symposium, Hispanic Studies Review, Pterodáctilo, and eHumanista. She has always been interested in the study of non-canonical texts and currently much of her research deals with entremeses and other short genres. In addition to several internal research grants, she has been awarded the Targeted Research Area Grant from the American Society for Theater Research; and travel grants from the West Virginia Humanities Council and the Program for Cultural Cooperation between the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and United States Universities. At WVU, Dr. de Miguel has taught the following courses: Conversation, Readings in Spanish, Spanish for Heritage Speakers, Cultures of Spain, Cervantes, Medieval and Golden Age, Survey of Spanish Literature, Early Spanish Literature, Golden Age Theater, Avant-Garde, Spanish Cinema, Greek and Roman Civilization, Witches in the Western World, and Methods of Research..
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