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Dr Jonathan Bradbury

Dr Jonathan Bradbury

Senior Lecturer
Hispanic Studies (ML)

My research focuses on the Early Modern period in Spain (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), and to date my work has had a particular emphasis on the transmission of knowledge in vernacular books, and on the interaction of erudition and fiction.
 
After the publication of my monograph, on early modern Spanish vernacular prose miscellanies, I have diversified my research interests, including work on minor authors, such as Alonso de Castillo Solórzano (1584-1648?), and on major figures, such as Lope de Vega (1562-1635).
 
My next major research project will focus on the regulation of female behaviour and leisure activities in seventeenth-century Spain, as expressed through treatises, conduct manuals, manuscript polemics, the works of arbitristas, and genres of fiction.
 
I teach a variety of Spanish texts and cultural topics from the so-called Golden Age, some canonical and others less well known, to students from different year groups, drawing on my own research, published and ongoing, and on the latest developments in the field, through collaboration with scholars in Hispanic Studies in the UK and internationally.


Biography:

I did my undergraduate degree in Modern Languages (Spanish and Italian) at Pembroke College, Oxford between 2001-2005, spending my Year Abroad (2003-2004) in Siena and Barcelona. I moved to Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 2006, completing an MPhil in 2007; for this degree, I worked on topics in the fields of Intellectual History, History of the Book, and Translation Theory, concentrating in particular on the early-modern period in Spain and Italy. In 2007, I transferred to St John's College, Cambridge, where I was awarded a PhD in February 2012 for a thesis written under the supervision of Dr Rodrigo Cacho Casal (Clare College, Cambridge) on the tradition of the Spanish vernacular prose miscellany between 1540-1673, with a detailed case-study of the miscellanies of Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa (1571?-1644?)

During the final four terms of my doctoral work, I was the Spanish lecturer at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and between 2011-2014 I was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford.

I began teaching in Exeter in 2013-14, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2018.

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