Horacio Sierra | Bowie State University (original) (raw)
President Biden Appointee: President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
Professor of English - Bowie State University 2013-Present
Assistant Professor of English - University of Saint Joseph 2010-2013
PhD in English - University of Florida
MA in English - University of Florida
BS in Communication - University of Miami
Address: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who re... more As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and materialism, they have been the anathema of how society has proscribed, expected, and regulated women: sex object, wife, mother, and capitalist consumer. They are perceived as otherworldly beings, yet revered for their salt-of-the-earth demeanor. This book illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood. This analysis of the nun s role in the popular imagination via literature explores how writers on both sides of the Catholic-Protestant divide employed the role of the nun to showcase the powerful potential these women possessed in acting out as sanctified subversives.
The texts under consideration include William Shakespeare s Measure for Measure, Margaret Cavendish s The Convent of Pleasure, María de Zayas s The Disenchantments of Love, Aphra Behn s The History of the Nun, Catalina de Erauso s The Lieutenant Nun, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz s autobiographical and literary works. No other book addresses these issues through a concentrated study of these authors and their literary works, much less by offering an in-depth discussion of the literature and culture of seventeenth-century England, Spain, and Mexico.
Published Journal Articles and Book Chapters by Horacio Sierra
Creative Writing by Horacio Sierra
Journalism by Horacio Sierra
As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who re... more As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and materialism, they have been the anathema of how society has proscribed, expected, and regulated women: sex object, wife, mother, and capitalist consumer. They are perceived as otherworldly beings, yet revered for their salt-of-the-earth demeanor. This book illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood. This analysis of the nun s role in the popular imagination via literature explores how writers on both sides of the Catholic-Protestant divide employed the role of the nun to showcase the powerful potential these women possessed in acting out as sanctified subversives.
The texts under consideration include William Shakespeare s Measure for Measure, Margaret Cavendish s The Convent of Pleasure, María de Zayas s The Disenchantments of Love, Aphra Behn s The History of the Nun, Catalina de Erauso s The Lieutenant Nun, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz s autobiographical and literary works. No other book addresses these issues through a concentrated study of these authors and their literary works, much less by offering an in-depth discussion of the literature and culture of seventeenth-century England, Spain, and Mexico.
This editorial I wrote for the Baltimore Sun discusses the importance of incorporating black live... more This editorial I wrote for the Baltimore Sun discusses the importance of incorporating black lives into the Renaissance classroom.
I interviewed Janet Reno during her 2002 gubernatorial race in Florida.
An academic journal's review of the book I edited, New Readings of the Merchant of Venice.
