Enrique García Santo-Tomás

Although I am a literary scholar by training, I have spent the last decade working on the history of science and technology in the Iberian Peninsula. My first three books (2000-2008) explored the material conditions surrounding the career of a number of major writers of early modern Spain. My current project explores the fruitful, yet under-explored dialogue between scientific discoveries in the European context and the development of fiction in Cervantes and his contemporaries. The first monograph of this new path, titled La musa refractada (2014), focuses on optics and astronomy, and specifically on the Spanish fortunes of Galileo’s telescope. Two new books in progress, La musa encinta and La musa giratoria, respectively tackle the disciplines of early modern obstetrics and mechanics in their conversation with the fiction of the time.

I am also the editor of half a dozen anthologies on early modern Spanish literature and culture, as well as of several critical editions of pieces by Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Francisco Santos, and Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo. I have authored numerous book chapters, articles, and reviews on early modern Spanish literature and culture, with recent and forthcoming work in PMLA, MLN, MLR, Modern Philology, Hispanic Review, Anuario Lope de Vega, Anuario Calderoniano, Anales Cervantinos, Cuadernos de Teatro Clásico, Revista Iberoamericana, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Hispania: Revista Española de Historia, RILCE, Studia Aurea, Cervantes, Bulletin of the Comediantes, and Crítica Hispánica, as well as in compilations by MLA, Brill, Toronto, Castalia, Gredos, Turner, Ashgate, Oxford, and Cambridge UP.

Books:

The Refracted Muse: Literature and Optics in Early Modern Spain (U of Chicago P, 2017).

La musa refractada: literatura y óptica en la España del Barroco (2014 [2nd ed., 2015]).

Modernidad bajo sospecha: Salas Barbadillo y la cultura material del siglo XVII (2008).

Espacio urbano y creación literaria en el Madrid de Felipe IV (2004).

La creación del ‘Fénix’: recepción crítica y formación canónica del teatro de Lope de Vega (2000).

Critical editions: 

Francisco Santos, Día y noche de Madrid (Cátedra, 2017).

Tirso de Molina, Amar por arte mayor (U de Navarra, 2015).

Salas Barbadillo, Don Diego de Noche (Cátedra, 2013).

Tirso de Molina, Don Gil de las calzas verdes (Cátedra, 2009 [6th edition, 2018]).

Salas Barbadillo, La hija de Celestina (Cátedra, 2008).

Lope de Vega, Arte nuevo de hacer comedias (Cátedra, 2006 [6th edition, 2018]).

Lope de Vega, Las bizarrías de Belisa (Cátedra, 2004).

Edited volumes and journal issues: 

Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain (U of Toronto P, 2019).

Nocturnalia: poéticas de la noche en España, siglos XV-XVIII (eHumanista, 2012)

Materia crítica: formas de ocio y de consumo en la cultura áurea (Vervuert Iberoamericana 2009).

Hacia la tragedia áurea: lecturas para un nuevo milenio (Vervuert Iberoamericana 2008). Co-edited.

Espacios domésticos en la literatura áurea (Insula 2006).

Cervantismos americanos (Insula 2005).

El teatro del Siglo de Oro ante los espacios de la crítica: encuentros y revisiones (Iberoamericana 2002).

Poetry: 

Las verdades del arce (Calambur 2001).

Retorno a Itaca (Universidad de Murcia 1998).

Recent graduate courses taught: 

The Baroque Wunderkammer
Petrarch’s Spanish Inheritors: Revolution and Dissolution
Material Culture and the Baroque Stage
All Things Quixote: Readings, Visions, Mappings
Early Modern Spanish Poetry: The Conquest of Space and Capital
Law, Memory, and Representation in Golden Age Theater

Recent undergraduate courses taught: 

Madrid: A Cultural History
Early Modern Spanish Theater
Troublemakers, 1500-1700
Early Modern Female (Auto)Biographies
Cervantes’ Exemplary Novels
The Spanish Picaresque Novel
Don Quixote
Golden Age Spanish Literature: Rethinking the Classics

Honors and Awards:

Jury Member, William Riley Parker Prize for An Outstanding Article in PMLA (2015-2017; Chair, 2016).

Collaborative Grant, Contextos y posteridad de Diego de Saavedra Fajardo: estética literaria y ‘Revolución científica’ (1600-1750). Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), Spain, 2016-2019. (FFI2015-64021-P).

Frank P. Casa Collegiate Professorship (2015).

Michigan Humanities Award (2013).

Elected Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows (2011).

Winner of the 2009 William Riley Parker Prize for an Outstanding Article in PMLA for “Fortunes of the Occhiali Politici in Early Modern Spain: Optics, Vision, Points of View” (PMLA 124. 1, 2009).

Awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2007-2008). 

Winner of the 2005 Premio de Ensayo Villa de Madrid / Premio de Investigación Municipal Antonio Maura for Espacio urbano y creación literaria en el Madrid de Felipe IV (Vervuert Iberoamericana 2004).

Winner of the 2001 Premio Leandro F. de Moratín de Ensayo a la Investigación Teatral for La creación del ‘Fénix’: recepción crítica y formación canónica del teatro de Lope de Vega (Gredos 2000).

Winner of a 2000 Fundación Juan March Manuscript Award for La creación del ‘Fénix’: recepción crítica y formación canónica del teatro de Lope de Vega (Gredos 2000).

Research Area(s)

• Early Modern Spanish Literature

Affiliation(s)

• Romance Languages & Literatures