Elizabeth Rhodes
Professor Emerita
Elizabeth Rhodes
Ph.D.
Contact
Lyons Hall 307B
Telephone: 617-552-3820
Email: elizabeth.rhodes@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- B.A., Westhampton College, University of Richmond
- M.A., Bryn Mawr College
- Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
Research Interests
Early modern Spanish literature; theology and religious culture; women鈥檚 studies and feminist theory
Professor Rhodes's current research project, titled 'The Age of the Saints"鈥攁nd featured in the听鈥攊nvestigates how the lives of the certain saint change over time.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
Renaissance Quarterly听73.3 (2020): 866-96.
Bulletin of the Comediantes听71.1-2 (2019): 103-17.
听Body and Religion 3.2 (2019): 130-49.
MLN 133.2 (2018): 201-23.
"Ignatius, Women and the听Leyenda de los santos."听Companion to Ignatius of Loyola Life, Writings, Spirituality. Ed. Robert A. Maryks. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014. 6-23.
"Mar铆a de Zayas's St. Beatriz of Hungary."听Representing Women鈥檚 Authority in the Early Modern World: Struggles, Strategies, and Morality. Eds. Eavan Mary O'Brien and Anthony Lappin. London: Aracne Press, 2013. 93-119.
"Santa Beatriz de Roma / Saint Beatriz of Rome: Edition and Translation from the Leyenda de los santos (Burgos: Juan de Burgos, 1499."听听[2012]
"Las vidas de Francisco de Borja y las normas del g茅nero."听Francisco de Borja y su tiempo: Pol铆tica, religi贸n y cultura en la edad moderna. Ed. Enrique Garc铆a Hern谩n and Pilar Ryan. Valencia and Rome: Albatros ediciones and Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2011. 681-87.
鈥淭eresa de Jes煤s鈥檚 Book and the Reform of the Religious Man in Sixteenth-Century Spain.鈥澨�Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality. Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900.听Eds. Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Carmen M. Mangion. London: Palgrave, 2010. 68-82.
"Gender in the Night. Juan de la Cruz y Cecilia del Nacimiento."听Studies on Women's Lyric Poetry of the Golden Age. Tras el espejo la musa escribe Ed. Juli谩n Olivares. Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2009. 202-17.
"Mysticism and History: The Case of Spain's Golden Age."听Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Avila and the Spanish Mystics. Ed. Alison Weber. New York: MLA, 2009. 47-56.
"Join the Jesuits, See the World: Women and the Society of Jesus."听The Jesuits II. Cultures, Sciences and the Arts, 1540-1773. Eds. John W. O'Malley et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 33-47.
"The Economics of Salvation in听El esclavo del demonio."听Bulletin of the Comediantes, 59.2 (2008): 281-302.
Recent Papers and Presentations
"The Ghostly Writers of Early Modern Spain: God as Ghost." Symposium on Ghost Writers, Boston College, May 2019.
"Remembering It: Traumatic Memory in Early Modern Religious Writing." Renaissance Society of America annual meeting, Toronto, April 2019.
"The Religious Body Imagined: Where Do We Go From Here?" Capstone speaker, On the Edge: The Religious Body Imagined, Symposium, Elon College, Feb. 2019.
鈥淲hen Father Doesn鈥檛 Know Best: Interpreting Jesuit Vocational Standards.鈥� Sixteenth Century Studies Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Nov. 2018.
鈥淪even Reasons to Hurt in Early Modern Catholicism." Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 2018.
鈥淪aying Yes.鈥澨�Dialogues on the Monologues:听Faculty panel discussion sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies Program, Boston College, Feb. 2018.
鈥淲hen Heaven is Complicit: Agueda de la Cruz and Abusive Catholic Piety.鈥� Early Modern Iberian Studies Conference. Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, U. Mass Amherst. Sept. 2017.
"Living with Rodolfo and 'La fuerza de la sangre.'" 17th Annual Chicago Cervantes Symposium. Instituto Cervantes, Chicago. April 2017.
"Early Modern Catholic Female Piety: Texts, Truth and Trouble." University of North Carolina Greensboro and Elon University. April 2017.
"Women in Convents." Public Lectures with exhibit "Women of the Page: Convent Culture in the Early Modern Spanish World." John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. Feb. 2017.
Roundtable participant,听Celebrating Saint Teresa of 脕vila (1515-2015).听Public conference, Boston University, Nov. 2015.
"Behind Closed Doors: Luisa de Carvajal and the Abuse of Domestic Devotions."听 Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World (independent conference). Cambridge University [UK]. July 2015.听
"Behind Closed Doors:Luisa de Carvajal and the Abuse of Domestic Devotions." Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World (independent conference). Cambridge University [UK]. July 2015.
"How Do We Solve a Problem like Luisa?: Luisa de Carvajal and Interpreting Writings of Early Modern Religious Women." Early Modern Religious: Comparative Contexts (independent conference). Newberry Library, Chicago, March 2013.
"Mar铆a de Zayas and the Gothic Aesthetic." Special session, Renaissance Society of America, Folger Library, Washington DC, March 2012.
"Reading Baroque:听顿别蝉别苍驳补帽辞听4 by Mar铆a de Zayas." Public lecture, Brandeis University, 4 April 2011.
"The Devil and the Saint: the Case of Teresa de Jes煤s." American Historical Association, Boston, January 2011.
"Mar铆a de Zayas and St. Beatriz of Rome."听Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Forum for the Study of Early Modern Women in Continental Europe. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. September 2010.
"Gender, History, and Luisa de Carvajal's Letters."听Luisa de Carvajal, Her Life, Times and Works. Valladolid, Spain. June 2010.
"Las vidas de Francisco de Borja y la cuesti贸n del g茅nero."听Congreso internacional Francisco de Borja y su tiempo. Valencia, Spain. April 2010.
鈥淰isual Literacy and the Art of Inquisitorial Spain.鈥� In conjunction with the exhibit,听El Greco to Vel谩zquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III.听Nash Museum, Duke University. October 2008.
鈥淲hat is Mysticism?鈥� Dept. of Humanities, Duke University, October 2008.
鈥淭he Arts of Inquisition during the Age of Vel谩zquez and El Greco.鈥� In conjunction with the exhibit,听El Greco to Vel谩zquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March-April 2008.