Education
Ph.D. Spanish University of Virginia
Dissertation: “Iberian Daughters of Sappho: Female Friendship in Early Modern Spain”
M.A. Spanish University of Virginia
Thesis: “Checkmate: The Gifting Game and Gender Performance Anxiety in Lope de Vega’s La Dorotea”
B.A. Spanish University of Virginia
With highest distinction, Study abroad: Valenci
Teaching Experience
Lecturer University of Virginia Fall 2021 - present
Lecturer Longwood University Fall 2016 – Spring 2021
Visiting Assistant Professor Wake Forest University Fall 2015 – Spring 2016
Publications
Articles
Barlow, Jennifer E. “Love and War: Male Friendship and the Performance of Masculinity in the Poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega (1501-1536).” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 95.4 (2018): 383-98.
Barlow, Jennifer E. “Checkmate: The Gifting Game and Gender Performance Anxiety in Lope de Vega’s La Dorotea.” Hispanic Review 81.3 (2013): 245-62.
Book chapters
Barlow, Jennifer E. “Staging Friendship and the Female Body Politic in Early Modern Spanish Theater" in Male and Female Friendship: Writing and Staging Friendship in 17th and 18th Century Spanish literature", eds. Claudia Gronemann and Agnieszka Komorowska. Leiden: Brill, 2020. (Forthcoming)
Book Reviews
Martí, Sacramento. Misoginia y percepción de la mujer en clásicos de la literatura española. Newark, DE; Juan de la Cuesta. 2015. Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 95.6 (2018): 723-24.
Eds. Baranda Leturio, Nieves; Marín Pina, and M.ª Carmen. Letras en la celda: cultura escrita de los conventos femeninos en la España moderna. Madrid: Iberoamericana de Libros y Ediciones, 2014. Sixteenth Century Journal 47.3 (2016): 749-51.
Editorial duties
Guest editor, Miríada Hispánica. Special Number: “Número monográfico en homenaje a la profesora Alison Weber” 16 (2018); includes “La pluma dorada: Estudios en homenaje a Alison Weber,” 11-13.
Translation
Gómez Moreno, Ángel. “The Challenges of Historiography. The Theatre in Medieval Spain.” Trans. Jennifer E. Barlow. A History of Theater in Spain. Ed. Maria M. Delgado and David T. Gies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012. 18-35.
Selected Conference Presentations
November 2019 “‘Les es dulce servir y sufrir a los prójimos’: Friendship and the Christian Stoic Body in Baltasar Álvarez’s Escritos espirituales.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis.
November 2018 “Disembodied Friendship: Death, Apparitions, and the Holy Female Body in the Discalced Carmelite Convent.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Albuquerque.
June 2018 “Staging the Body Politic: Male Friendship and Honor in Calderón's A secreto agravio, secreta venganza.” Asociación de Profesionales Hispanos en Estados Unidos, Charlottesville.
October 2017 “Teresa of Avila, Friendship, and the Holy Female Body.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Milwaukee.
Panels organized and chaired
October 2012-17 Panel organizer and chair for Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference.
March 2012 Panel chair for Renaissance Society of America Conference, Washington D.C.
Awards and Fellowships
2017 Blackwell Scholar, Longwood University
2014 University of Virginia Three Minute Thesis Finalist
2014 Nora Zeale Hurston Essay Contest, Honorable Mention
2014-2015 Society of Fellows Dissertation Fellowship
2014 Society of Fellows Summer Travel Fellowship
2013-2014 Virginia Society of Fellows, Junior Fellow
2013, 2010 Robert J. Huskey Travel Fellowship
2012 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Graduate Travel Award
2011 Del Greco Graduate Student Essay Prize
2009-2013 University of Virginia Presidential Fellow
2009 Phi Beta Kappa