Stephanie Kirk

Stephanie Kirk earned her Ph.D. from New York University. Her main teaching and research interests include the literature and culture of colonial Latin America and the early modern Atlantic world, with a focus on gender and sexuality studies, religion, and early modern cultural studies. Her book, Convent Life in Colonial Mexico: A Tale of Two Communities was published by Florida UP in 2007. She is the editor of a book, to be published in 2008 by the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, entitled Desplazamientos y disyunciones: Nuevos itinerarios de los estudios latinoamericanos. The collection, which features the work of leading scholars in colonial Latin American studies, is dedicated to exploring new issues and approaches in the field in light of recent theoretical debates, and to pave the way for truly interdisciplinary approaches therein. Professor Kirk is currently at work on her second book project, Jesuit Masculinities: Power and Knowledge in Colonial Latin America, which studies the formation and consolidation of Jesuit power in urban Mexico through the forging of masculine ties in the realm of education and erudition.