Mexican Narrative, Disaster Studies, Latin American Ecocriticism, the Total Novel 

Early modern Spanish literature; Baroque aesthetics and theology; women writers; public humanities and cultural mediation; literary theory

 

Digital Poetry & Poetics & Humanities, Cyberculture, Science & Literature & Culture, Human Rights, Posthumanism

Early modern Italy, Italian colonialism, Gender Studies

Dr. Feracho specializes in contemporary Latin American narrative and in particular women's narrative of the Caribbean, as well as Afro-Latin American narrative and poetry. Her current research involves cross-cultural literary texts (in both narrative and poetry) of women writers of African descent from the Americas (both Spanish-speaking and…

17th and 18th century French literature, French encounters with the Islamicate world, Mediterranean Studies. 

19th and 20th century Latin American literatures. Modernization and Modernisms. Travel Writing. Journalism, politics and literature.

Specialization in Renaissance humanism, humanist pedagogy, epistolography and paleography. Current research project: Claude Dodieu: Lettres et papiers (working title).

Latin American colonial literature, culture and historiography, particularly in the New Kingdom of Granada. Other interest and areas of research include social and political theory of the baroque, discourses of Latin American national identity, and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latin American literature, especially modernismo. …

I study and teach about early modern Spain in the context of imperial expansion. I am also the editor of the Bulletin of the Comediantes, the international journal devoted to the study of early-modern Spanish theater. My book, The Epic of Juan Latino: Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain (University of Toronto…