MARIA JESÚS ZAMORA CALVO

MARIA JESÚS ZAMORA CALVO


About me

Professor of Spanish Literature at the Autonomous University of Madrid. His lines of research are directed towards the study of magic treatises and inquisitor manuals (16th and 17th centuries), the short story inserted in this type of book and the digital Humanities. Among others, she is the author of the books Ensueños de razón. The tale inserted in treatises on magic (16th and 17th centuries) (2005) and Artes maleficorum. Witches, wizards and demons in the Golden Age (2016), editor of the Espejo de brujas volumes. Transgressive women through history (2012), Japan and Spain: approaches and disagreements (16th and 17th centuries) (2012), The woman before the mirror: body studies (2013), "A scream between crystals": Essays and readings on Antonio Gamoneda (2014), Witches of cinema (2016), Mulieres inquisitionis. The woman in front of the Inquisition in Spain (2017), Mujeres quebradas. The Inquisition and its violence towards heterodoxy in New Spain (2018), Woman and Inquisition in the golden letters (2019), Crosses and anchors. The influence of Japan and Spain in a global Golden Age (2020), Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World (2021) and El diablo en sus infiernos (2022). She has been the principal investigator of the project "Women facing the Spanish and New Spanish Inquisition" (FEM2016-78192-P) R&D Projects of Excellence-MINECO (AEI/FEDER-UE). Since 2018 he has directed Edad de Oro. Magazine of Spanish Philology. And he currently leads the research group «Magical mentalities and antisuperstitious discourses (16th, 17th and 18th centuries)», a group consolidated by the Autonomous University of Madrid.

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