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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