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Patricia W. Manning

Patricia W. Manning, Assistant Professor, received her B.A. from Brown University and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University.   She has a wide range of research interests in early modern literature including sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Hispanic poetry and prose, emblems, the Inquisition and the Society of Jesus.  She has published on the Quijote in Hispania and JAISA, on Spanish dream culture in Mediterranean Studies, and on Jesuit publication protocol in Explorations in Renaissance Culture (EIRC).  She has articles forthcoming on the illustration tradition of “El coloquio de los perros” in Cervantes and on using visual culture to teach the picaresque in the MLA Approaches to Teaching volume on Lazarillo de Tormes and the picaresque tradition.  Her book manuscript, Voicing Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Spain: Inquisition, Social Criticism and Theology in the Case of El Criticón, studies the manner in which Baltasar Gracián’s El Criticón negotiates publication strictures to circulate material critical of the monarchy and the Society of Jesus.  She is working on a cluster of articles concerning contemporary rewritings of seventeenth-century texts.  Her next book-length project, titled Bad (and Good) Boys of the Society of Jesus: The Jesuits and Their Texts, explores the transformation of accepted Jesuit doctrine into material condemned by the Society of Jesus and the Inquisition.