Núria Silleras-Fernández

Areas of interest: Iberian Studies – Catalan Studies – Cultural Studies – Gender Studies.

Núria Silleras-Fernández is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado-Boulder, USA. She specializes in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian literatures and cultures (13th to 16th centuries), Cultural and Intellectual History, Gender studies, Catalan Studies, and Mediterranean Studies.

Prof. Silleras-Fernández has numerous publications in the field of Iberian Studies, specifically focusing on Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Her book Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (2015) received several awards such as the Premio del Rey from the American Historical Association (AHA), which is the biennial prize for a distinguished book in English in the field of Early Spanish History. She is the co-editor of In and Of the Mediterranean. Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies (2015) along with Michelle M. Hamilton. Silleras-Fernández’s other relevant contributions to the field include “Iberia and the Mediterranean: An Introduction” (2001), “Cada maestrillo tiene su librillo: Personal Reflections on Teaching Gender Through Medieval Iberian Texts” (2015), and “Versión (no) original: Isabel y Carlos, Rey Emperador frente al multilingüismo y la diversidad cultural” (2016).

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Núria Silleras-Fernández’s publications in the IStREs database:

Silleras-Fernández, Núria. 2015a. ‘Cada Maestrillo Tiene Su Librillo: Personal Reflections on Teaching Gender Through Medieval Iberian Texts’. In Teaching Gender Through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures. Rotterdam: Sense Publishing.
———. 2015b. Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. 1st ed. Ithaca: Cornell UP.
———. 2015c. ‘Iberia and the Mediterranean: An Introduction’. In In and Of the Mediterranean. Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies, edited by Michelle Hamilton and Núria Silleras-Fernández. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press.
———. 2016. ‘Versión (no) original: Isabel y Carlos, Rey Emperador frente al multilingüismo y la diversidad cultural’. Miríada Hispánica. Hispanic Studies Journal, no. 12: 41–56.