Karen Stolley

Candidate statement

Karen Stolley is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University (Atlanta, GA). Publications include DOMESTICATING EMPIRE: Enlightenment in Spanish America (2013) and essays on eighteenth-century studies in The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment (2020), Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective (2021), and Mexican Literature as World Literature (2022). She co-edited with Mariselle Mélendez a 2015 issue of Colonial Latin America Review devoted to “Enlightenments in Ibero-America.” She serves on the editorial boards of Dieciocho and Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment. She is currently co-editing with Catherine M. Jaffe a collection of essays on “The Black Legend in the Eighteenth Century: National Identities under Construction” (forthcoming in 2024 with Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment). She has been a member of ASECS and the Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for over three decades and has previously served on the Executive Committee (2009-2012) and the Gottshalk Prize Committee (2013, 2022). She is committed to the full participation in our organization of all scholars and teachers working on the global eighteenth century.