About
At the ruins of Pisaq, Perú
Welcome to the website of Emily S. Beck at the College of Charleston. I am an associate professor specializing in Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature and Culture.
My primary research field focuses on the court of Queen Isabel I and highlights the political motivations and socio-historical connections that inform texts composed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. I am particularly interested in works that attempt to define and impose idealized behaviors, and I examine the implications that these expectations have for gender and minority relations. My research agenda focuses on Early Modern Spain and includes diverse genres of texts, including popular literary fiction, religious treatises, legal texts, historical chronicles, epistles, and manuals of courtesy and etiquette. I am particularly interested in social changes that occurred at the end of the 15th century during the reign of Queen Isabel I and in subsequent decades.
At the College of Charleston, I teach courses at all levels of Spanish language, culture, and literature, including the introductory language sequence, grammar reviews, conversation, composition, introduction to literatures and cultures, upper-division courses on Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature, and Graduate Seminars for Teachers of Spanish. My teaching interests also include service learning, Comparative Literature, surveys of “great books,” film, gender studies, and First Year Experience courses.
Go to the Hispanic Studies page
Go to the School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs homepage
Go to the College of Charleston homepage