Catherine Jaffe

Candidate statement

Catherine Jaffe is Professor of Spanish Literature at Texas State University and currently a Fellow at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study. Specializing in women writers, gender, and translation, Jaffe co-authored with Elisa Martín-Valdepeñas "María Lorenza de los Ríos, marquesa de Fuerte-Híjar: Vida y obra de una escritora del Siglo de las Luces" (2019), co-edited with Elizabeth Lewis "Eve’s Enlightenment: Women’s Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726-1831" (2009), and co-edited with Lewis and Mónica Bolufer "The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment" (2019). Jaffe serves on the Executive Committee of the MLA 18th-19thC Spanish and Iberian Literature Forum. Her research has been supported by Spain’s Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the ASECS Women’s Caucus. For ASECS, Jaffe served as president and Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and produced two concerts of Ibero-American music (ASECS 2012, 2014). She served on the editorial board of SECC and currently serves on the boards of Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment, and Anales de Literatura Española (Universidad Alicante). She holds a B.A. in English from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago.