Silleras-Fernández portrait
Associate Professor
Humanities • Spanish and Portuguese

Research Areas

Medieval and Early Modern Iberian literatures and cultures, cultural and intellectual history, Ìýgender studies, court culture, queenship, patronage, translation studies, politics, religion, emotions, humanism, Catalan, Iberian, and Mediterranean Studies.Ìý

ÌýWinner of a 2020 Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award from the Â鶹ӰԺ

Scholarly Books

  • Ìý(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024)

    , University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, 2023.

  • Ìý(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015), 328 pp.
    Ìý- Winner,Ìý, American Historical Association (AHA), biennial prizeÌýfor a distinguished book in English in the field of Early Spanish History, 2016Ìý
    - ÌýHonorable Mention, Modern Languages Association (MLA), 27thÌýÌýÌýfor an outstanding book published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures, 2016. Ìý
    - ÌýHonorable Mention,, University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ, 2016.
    -Ìý Winner,ÌýÌý2017 (Modern Language Association Division on Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures), annual international prize for the best monograph published on Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
  • María de Luna. Poder, piedad y patronazgo de una reina bajomedievalÌý(Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2012). Spanish Version/Translation with new additions ofÌýPower, Piety and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship.Ìý

  • Power, Piety and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship. Maria de LunaÌý(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, The New Middle Ages, 2008), 250 pp.

Edited Books

  • Iberian Babel: Translation and Multilingualism in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean, ed. with Michelle Hamilton (Leiden: Brill, 2022)
  • Teaching Gender Through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures, ed. with Leila Gómez, Asunción Horno-Delgado, and Mary Long (Rotterdam: Sense Publishing, 2015)Ìý
  • In and Of the Mediterranean. Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies, ed. with Michelle Hamilton (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, Hispanic Issues, 2015)

Edited Journal Issues

  • PerformingÌýDeath:ÌýGenderingÌýGrief, Ritual, and Memorialization in Late Medieval Iberia, edited with Núria Jornet,ÌýJournal of Medieval Iberian StudiesÌý(forthcoming).
  • Presents and Futures of Catalan Studies: A North American Perspective, edited with Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, and Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas, Catalan Review 37–1 (2023).

Affiliations

  • Affiliated Faculty in the Humanities Programs and History Department and the Women and Gender Studies Department, and Board Member of the CU Mediterranean Studies Group.
  • President of the North American Catalan Society (), 2022-2026