LicFil (Universidad de Zaragoza), MA (Nottingham), DPhil (Oxon), Senior Lecturer in the Spanish Golden Age

Office: Hatton House 3E
Tel: +44 20 7882 8429
Fax: +44 (0) 20 8980 5400
email: e.carrera@qmul.ac.uk

Areas of specialisation

Elena Carrera’s teaching focuses on the cultural, literary and social history of the Spanish Golden Age (modules on Spanish Inquisition and on Cervantes), as well as on comparative European culture (module on Madness Past and Present). Her main research interests are: history of ideas; critical theory; early modern autobiography; gender and power in early modern Spain; history of madness; the emotions in medieval and early modern Europe. She was guest editor of a special issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies on madness and melancholy in early modern Spain (2010), and she is currently writing a book on Renaissance theories of emotion.

Elena Carrera is a member of the Steering Committee of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions.

Publications

Books

• Teresa of Avila’s Autobiography: Authority, Power and the Self in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Spain (Oxford: Legenda, 2005)

Publications in edited books and refereed journals

• ‘Teresa of Avila and Hélène Cixous: corps-à-corps with the mother’, in Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies 2 (1993), 409-418
• ‘Heterophagous passion: eating the other, vomiting the self’, in Inequality/Theory: Hispanisms, ed. Bernard McGuirk and Mark Millington (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 1995), pp. 117-39
• ‘Intertextuality in Teresa de Avila´s Camino de perfección’, in Hers Ancient and Modern: Women’s Writing in Spain and Brazil, ed. Catherine Davies and Jane Whetnall, Manchester Spanish & Portuguese Studies, 6 (Manchester: University of Manchester, 1997), pp. 15-29
• ‘Autoridad, autoría y política sexual en los textos de Teresa de Ávila’, in Actas del XII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas: Siglo de Oro, ed. Jules Whicker (Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1998), pp. 87-97
• ‘The Reception of Clarice Lispector via Hélène Cixous: Reading from the Whale’s Belly’, in Brazilian Feminisms, ed. Solange Ribeiro and Judith Still (University of Nottingham Press, 1999), pp. 85-100
• ‘The Fertile Mystical Maze: from Derrida’s Dry Theological Gorge to Cixous’s Dialogic Disgorging’, in Trajectories of Mysticism in Theory and Literature, ed. Philip Leonard (London: Macmillan Press, 2000; New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000), pp. 94-112
• ‘Writing rearguard action, fighting ideological selves: Teresa of Avila’s reinterpretation of gender stereotypes in Camino de perfección’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 79 (July 2002), 299-308
• ‘The Spiritual Role of the Emotions in Mechtild of Magdeburg, Angela of Foligno, and Teresa of Avila’, in Lisa Perfetti (ed.), The Representation of Women’s Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005), pp. 63-89.
• ‘The Holy Innocents – Mario Camús, Spain, 1984’, in Alberto Mira, The Cinema of Spain and Portugal, 24 frames series (London: Wallflower Press, 2005), pp. 179-87
• ‘Escritura femenina y literatura de viajes. Viajeras inglesas en la España del siglo XIX, lugares comunes y visiones particulares’, in Manuel Lucena Giraldo and Juan Pimentel (eds.), Diez estudios sobre literatura de viajes (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2006), pp. 109-130
• ‘La teatralidad de las lágrimas en Don Quijote (1605)’, in Anthony Close, ed., Edad de Oro Cantabrigense. Actas del VII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional del Siglo de Oro (AISO) (Frankfurt/Madrid:Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2006), pp. 149-54
• ‘Pasión and afección in Teresa of Avila and Francisco de Osuna’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 84.2 (2007), 175-91
• ‘La hermenéutica de la paranoia en El columpio, de Cristina Fernández Cubas’, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 13.1 (2007), 1-10
• ‘Honra, Social Authority, and their Ideological Contradictions: Teresa of Avila’s Views (1565)’, Hispanic Research Journal 8.4 (2007), 307-317
• ‘The Emotions in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Spirituality’, Journal of Religious History 31.3 (2007), 235-252
• Review of Katharine Hodgkin, Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography, in Reviews in History
• ‘Lovesickness and the Therapy of Desire: Aquinas, cancionero Poetry and Teresa of Avila’s Muero porque no muero’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 86.6 (2009), 729-42 ´
• Review of The She-Apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal, by Glyn Redworth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), The English Historical Review  CXXIV (2009), 1488-1490
• ‘Madness and Melancholy in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Spain: New Evidence, New Approaches’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, LXXXVII, no.8  (November 2010), 1-15.
• ‘Understanding Mental Disturbance in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain: Medical Approaches’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, LXXXVII, no.8  (November 2010), 105-136.

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