Research

My research looks at sixteenth and seventeenth century literature in Spanish, working across Europe and the Americas. My first book was concerned with the ways in which epic poetry in the Viceroyalty of Peru was used to explore the ethical dilemmas of conflict and emerging notions of political community. More recently, my interests have moved towards sacred epic, the literary production of the Sephardic and Morisco diasporas, and the intermingled history of science, religion and literature in this period. 

Teaching

All areas of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spanish literature (papers VII, X, XII, XIV), as well as translation and the Prelims (first-year) course.

Graduate Teaching

I welcome applications from MSt and DPhil students working on all aspects of early modern Hispanic literature and culture.

Selected Publications

Books

The Epic Mirror: Poetry, Conflict Ethics and Political Community in Colonial Peru (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2022)

Rodrigo Cacho and Imogen Choi, eds, The Rise of Spanish American Poetry, 1500-1700: Literary and Cultural Transmission in the New World (Cambridge: Legenda, 2019)

Articles and chapters

'De España a Jerusalén vía Roma: los refugiados, el imperio, y el arte de reinar en David: poema heroico de Iacobo Uziel', in Jesús Ponce Cárdenas. ed., La épica sacra en el Siglo de Oro, Madrid/Frankfurt, Iberoamericana/Verveurt, 2023, pp. 287-314

'Un no imitado artificio: la pareja palimpséstica de Fresia y Caupolicán en Arauco domado de Pedro de Oña', Etiópicas: Revista de Letras Renacentistas, 19 (2023), 139-159

Imogen Choi and Felipe Valencia, 'The Tragedy of Women in Power: La Araucana and Sixteenth-Century Neo-Senecan Theatre', Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 45.1 (2020), 63-92

‘La presencia oculta de Torquato Tasso en la Tercera parte de La Araucana de Alonso de Ercilla (1589-90)’, Bulletin Hispanique 121. 1 (2019), 73-101

‘Os lusíadas and Armas antárticas: Eros, Eris and the Art of Imitation in Colonial Epic’, in Rodrigo Cacho and Imogen Choi, eds, The Rise of Spanish American Poetry, 1500-1700: Literary and Cultural Transmission in the New World, pp. 222-238

'Épopée, guerre coloniale et communauté politique dans le vice-royaume du Pérou, 1560-1610’, trans. Aude Plagnard, Receuil Ouvert (2018)

‘The Spectacle of Conquest: Epic Conflicts on the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Stage’, in Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, Stephen Harrison, and Claire Kenward, eds, Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 336-350

‘¿"Adonde falta el rey, sobran agravios" (IV.5)? The Siege of Saint-Quentin and Two Worlds of War in Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana’, in Stephen Boyd and Terence O’Reilly (eds) Artifice and Invention in the Spanish Golden Age (Cambridge: Legenda, 2014), pp. 173-84

‘"De gente que a ningún rey obedecen": Republicanism and Empire in Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana’, BHS 91.4 (2014), 417-35