Erin Bolívar

Erín Bolívar is a scholar of Hispanic and Italian Studies and a third year PhD student in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia.  Her research focuses on the portrayal of the Virgen Mary in the visual arts and literature in both Spain and Italy primarily during the 15th - 17th centuries, as well as some representations of the 19th and 20th centuries.  As a Marian scholar, she focuses on the connections between Mary of Nazareth as both an earthly figure and an inspirational embodiment of humanity's highest aspirations within Christianity.  Her dissertation will center on the portrayal of the Madonna in Spanish and Italian painting, poetry and sculpture. 

She serves as an editorial fellow for the Bulletin of the Comediantes.

As an instructor, she teaches communicative based lessons with emphasis on Hispanic culture.  Her teaching philosophy centres around student learning and their individual needs to be successful in Spanish language learning.  She sees her role as very much of guidance and support in order to assist her students achieve their language goals.  

Research interests:  Spanish Golden Age poetry and painting, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first century Spanish and Italian religious poetry, painting, Baroque art; Marian scholarship, gardens, iconography, statues, sacred architecture and apparitions; Spanish and Italian mystical writing and Catholic theologians and saints