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Dr Emma Gatland (MPhil, Ph.D., Cambridge)
Joanna Randall MacIver Junior Research Fellow, Somerville College
Address:  Somerville College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HD
Email:   emma.gatland@some.ox.ac.uk
Tel:   01865 270666

Research

Literature of medieval and Golden Age Iberia; the representation of women in poetry and prose, particularly in hagiographic narrative.

Teaching

Medieval Spanish Literature and Culture, Translation

Publications

Books authored:

Women from the 'Golden Legend': Female Authority in Medieval Castilian Hagiography (London: Tamesis), in press.

The Lives of Female Saints from Medieval Castilian ‘Flores Sanctorum’. Texts and Concordances (New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies), forthcoming 2010.


Books co-edited:

Editor, with Juan Carlos Conde López, Gaude Virgo Gloriosa: Marian Miracle Literature in Medieval Spain and France, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Seminar (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London), forthcoming.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

"¿Qué me ha de aprovechar ver la pintura de aquel que con las alas derretidas cayendo, fama y nombre al mar ha dado?": Liminality in the Sonnets of Garcilaso de la Vega', Forum for Modern Language Studies, in press.

'"Asmó bien esta cosa que· l istrié a mal puerto": The Space and Place of Women in Gonzalo de Berceo’s Milagros de Nuestra Señora', in: Gaude Virgo Gloriosa: Marian Miracle Literature in Medieval Spain and France, ed. Juan Carlos Conde López and Emma Gatland, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Seminar (London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London), forthcoming.

'The Life of Saint Brigit in the Castilian Leyenda de los santos', Forum for Modern Language Studies, 46 (2010): 71-83.

'Saintly Models: Isabel la Católica and the Commissioning of a flos santorum', Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, 2 (2010): 31-50.

‘¿Puede hablar la mujer santa?: El lenguaje y el poderío simbólico en la hagiografía castellana de los siglos XIV y XV’, in Medievalismo en Extremadura, estudios sobre literatura y cultura hispánicas de la Edad Media, ed. Jesús Cañas Murillo & Francisco Javier Grande Quejigo (Cáceres: Universidad de Extremadura, 2009), pp. 273-79.

'Language and Authority in Celestina: Institutions, Incongruence, and Shifting Symbolic Power', Celestinesca, 31 (2007): 85-100.

'Vision, Space, and Power in the Vida de Petronilla and the Vida de Santa Marina', in Proceedings of the Seventeenth Colloquium, ed. David Barnett and Carlos Conde Solares (London: Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar) in press.

'El nombre como proceso ritual en las vidas de santas', Actas del II Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, in press.