Dr Alice Brooke
Associate Professor in Spanish
Merton College
My work focusses on the literature of the early modern Hispanic world, with a particular interest in the religious culture of Viceregal Mexico, women’s writing, and convents as sites of literary and intellectual production.
My first book, on the religious plays of the Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (The autos sacramentales of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Sacramental Theology and Natural Philosophy) was published by OUP in 2018. I am currently working on a translation and critical edition of Sor Juana’s Respuesta a sor Filotea, as well as a new project on the literary history of the Immaculate Conception in the early modern Hispanic world.
