Contact Information
irigoyen@illinois.edu
Research Interests
Early Modern Iberian Literature and Culture
Research Description
My research focuses on the representation of race, ethnicity, and class difference in early modern Spain. My first book The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2013) analyzes the social and ethnocentric uses of the pastoral romances by revealing their interrelation with discourses on race, animal husbandry, and nation building in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain. My second book, “Moors Dressed as Moors”: Clothing, Social Distinction, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia (University of Toronto Press, 2017) studies the production, circulation, and consumption of Moorish clothing among both Old Christians and Moriscos to show that it was a sign of status which conditioned sartorial practices, discourses on social preeminence, and literary representations. I am currently working on a project, tentatively entitled Utopias of Infamy, dealing with the political value of insults as a source of collective identity in the early modern Spanish imaginary.
Education
PhD in Romance Languages. University of Pennsylvania
MA in Spanish. University of Colorado at Boulder
BA in Hispanic Philology. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Awards and Honors
2016-2021. Conrad Humanities Scholar. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
2014-2015. Helen Corley Petit Scholar. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Head, Spanish and Portuguese
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Professor, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Professor, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Highlighted Publications
Irigoyen Garcia, J. (2017). Moors Dressed as Moors: Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia. (Toronto Iberic). University of Toronto Press.
Irigoyen-García, J. (2013). The spanish Arcadia: Sheep herding, pastoral discourse, and ethnicity in early modern Spain. University of Toronto press.
Irigoyen-García, J. (2016). La expulsión de los moriscos en El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (1614) de Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda. MLN - Modern Language Notes, 131(2), 336-355. https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2016.0031
Keller, M., & Irigoyen-García, J. (2017). The dialectics of orientalism in early modern europe. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46236-7
Irigoyen-García, J. (2016). “Como hacen los moros a los cristianos”: Raza, género e identidad cultural en “Tarde llega el desengaño” de María de Zayas . Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos, 40(2), 357-370. https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v40i2.1842
Recent Publications
García, J. I. (2019). Don Quixote's Journey from Castile to Aragon as a Nostalgic Search for Jousting. Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, 39(2), 19-42. https://doi.org/10.1353/cer.2019.0020
Irigoyen-García, J. (2018). El pastor de Iberia by Bernardo de la Vega (review). Bulletin of the Comediantes, 70(2), 205-207. https://doi.org/10.1353/boc.2018.0037
Irigoyen-García, J. (2018). Review: O. R. Constable's To Live Like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. Church History, 87(3), 876-878. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640718001907
Irigoyen Garcia, J. (2017). Moors Dressed as Moors: Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia. (Toronto Iberic). University of Toronto Press.
Irigoyen-García, J. (2017). La mirada musulmana sobre la cultura festiva de la España de los siglos XVI y XVII. Sharq Al-Andalus, 22, 237-254. https://doi.org/10.14198/ShAnd.2017-2018.22.12