Encarnación Juárez-Almendros

Biography

Encarnación Juárez-Almendros is an Emerita Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, a Faculty Fellow of the Medieval Institute and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and a faculty member of the Disability Studies Forum here at the University of Notre Dame. Her specialization is Early Modern Spanish literature and culture. Her research interest includes Quevedo and Cervantes’s works, autobiographical and picaresque prose, women writings (Teresa de Cartagena, Teresa de Ávila, Catalina de Erauso), cultural clothing, and disability studies.