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Isabel Torres
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Isabel Torres

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Isabel Torres

Professor

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3178-4499

United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I welcome doctoral and post-doctoral applications from suitably-qualified candidates across the broad spectrum of early modern Spanish literature and culture. I have also supervised the critical component of creative writing (poetry) theses. The following fields are, therefore, indicative only:\ Early Modern Spanish poetry and poetics\ Theories and practice of the lyric\ Golden Age 'comedia'\ Legacy and reception of the Classics in the Spanish Renaissance (and beyond)\ Cervantine Studies\ Comparative Literary Studies

1994 …Research output 2000: 1Research output 2002: 1Research output 2004: 1Research output 2005: 1Projects 2006: 2Research output 2006: 2Research output 2007: 3Projects 2008: 1Research output 2008: 5Research output 2009: 2Research output 2013: 2Research output 2014: 3Projects 2015: 1Research output 2015: 1Research output 2017: 3Research output 2018: 1Research output 2019: 2Research output 2024: 22024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Research Interests

Isabel Torres completed a BA (Latin and Spanish) at Queen’s University in 1988, obtaining a PhD in Spanish in 1994. She was appointed to a Golden Age lectureship  at Queen’s in 1991 and was Head of the Subject Area of Spanish and Portuguese Studies from 1997 - 2016.  She holds a personal Chair in Spanish Golden Age Literature.

Isabel holds the following editorial positions:   Editor in chief of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies and the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies member of the Tamesis International Advisory Board; member of the Editorial Board of Calíope

She has been President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland 2013-16 and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Association (2016-18). She is an external member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick and an elected member of the executive committee  of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry.

Isabel was a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College (2010-18), a member of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 subpanel 28, Modern Languages and Linguistics, and a member of subpanel 26, Modern Languages and Linguistics (2018-2021) for REF 2021.

Fellowships:

Corresponding Fellow ('miembro correspondiente')ofthe Real Academia Española (2016-)

Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2019-)

Fellow of the British Academy (2020 -)

Published Work:

Isabel has produced a significant body of published work across the broad field of Golden Age literary studies, authoring essays on early modern theatre, prose and poetry. Her major contribution has been in the field of Renaissance and Baroque poetics. Her monograph on the topic, Love Poetry in the Spanish Golden Age. Eros, Eris and Empire (2013), builds upon her 2006 study, The Polyphemus Complex. Rereading the Baroque Mythological Fable (Liverpool University Press, 2006). Other relevant publications include the edited collections: Rewriting Classical Mythology in the Hispanic Baroque (Tamesis, 2007); Ars Eloquentiae. Essays on Early Modern Poetry and Art (BHS, Liverpool, 2009); Spanish Golden Age Poetry in Motion (co-edited with Jean Andrews) (Tamesis, 2014); a co-edited double special issue of BSS entitled Imaginary Matters (2016),and the co-edited volume of essays Studies on Spanish Poetry in Honour of Trevor J. Dadson. Entre los siglos de Oro y el siglo XXI (2019). She is currently working on a book-length study of early modern lyric, provisionally entitled Lyric Time in Imperial Spain: paso a paso.

Supervision:

Isabel has supervised a range of Masters and doctoral theses to successful completion and directed a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. She welcomes doctoral and post-doctoral applications from suitably-qualified candidates across  the broad spectrum of early modern Spanish literature and culture. The following fields are, therefore, of indicative interest only:

Isabel was a shortlisted finalist in the Times Higher Education Awards, 2016, in the 'Outstanding Research Supervisor' category: https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2017/jun/08/what-makes-a-great-phd-supervisor

Teaching

Isabel is committed to research-led teaching and has offered undergraduate courses on all the major genres of the early modern period – poetry, drama and prose (the Picaresque novel, Cervantes’ novelas ejemplares and Don Quijote). Specialist optional courses include: World as Stage (level 2) and Rewriting Love in the Renaissance (level 3). She also enjoys and is active in language class delivery, and over the course of her career has taught language from ab initio through to final year.

At postgraduate level she contributed to the MA in Languages: 'Research Methods', 'Advanced Language' and  various specialist literary options and is currently involved in supervision on the MRes programme. She has supervised Masters-level dissertations on a range of topics relating to Golden Age literature and culture.

Isabel has been external examiner at undergraduate and taught postgraduate level in the Universities of Nottingham, King’s College London, University College Cork, University of Oxford, and the University of Cambridge. She is currently external examiner at Maynooth University.

Isabel was privileged to receive a Queen's University Teaching Awardin 2011 in the category of ‘Sustained Excellence'.

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Projects

Torres, I. (PI)

23/03/2015 → 30/04/2017

Project: Research - ### R1951MOL: Eros, Eris and Empire

Torres, I. (PI)

01/08/2008 → 31/01/2009

Project: Research - ### R1846MOL: Postgraduate Symposium in Spanish & Portugese Studies

Torres, I. (PI)

01/08/2006 → 22/12/2007

Project: Research - ### R1850MOL: VIII Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry (SRBH)

Torres, I. (PI)

01/08/2006 → 17/11/2007

Project: Research

Research output

Torres, I., Nov 2024, In: Calíope. Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. 29, 2, p. 261-283 22 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access

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45 Downloads (Pure) - ### 'New' poetry of the Spanish golden age

Torres, I., 01 Dec 2024, (Accepted) The Oxford handbook of Spanish Golden Age literature. Garrido Ardila, J. (ed.). Oxford University Press

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Torres, I. (Editor) & Letrán, J. (Editor), Nov 2019, Boydell & Brewer Ltd.

Research output: Book/Report › Book - ### Voicing Time: The Temporal Textures of Garcilaso de la Vega

Torres, I., Nov 2019, Studies on Spanish Poetry in Honour of Trevor J. Dadson: Entre los Siglos de Oro y el Siglo XXI. Torres, I. & Letrán, J. (eds.). Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, p. 15-34

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review - ### Poetry Bodied Forth in Time:The Final Ironies of Cervantes’ Viaje del Parnaso

Torres, I., 07 Jun 2018, (Early online date) In: Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Hispanic Studies and Researches on Spain, Portugal and Latin America. 2018, p. 1 29 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access

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1 Citation (Scopus)

563 Downloads (Pure)

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Prizes

Torres, I. (Recipient), Jul 2020

Prize: National/international honour - ### Corresponding Fellow, Royal Spanish Academy (Miembro correspondiente extranjera de la Real Academia Española)

Torres, I. (Recipient), 23 Jun 2016

Prize: National/international honour - ### Henry Hutchinson-Stewart Award

Torres, I. (Recipient), 1988

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards) - ### Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Torres, I. (Recipient), 24 May 2019

Prize: National/international honour - ### President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland

Torres, I. (Recipient), 2015

Prize: Election to learned society

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Activities

Torres, I. (Invited speaker)

05 Jan 2025 → 09 Jan 2025

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk - ### Towards 250 Years of Modern Languages. Mapping the Future in Higher Education

Torres, I. (Organiser)

29 Nov 2024

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference - ### Charles V Lecture. Malta. 2024

Torres, I. (Keynote speaker)

09 May 2024

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference - ### University of Malta

Torres, I. (Visiting researcher)

06 May 2024 → 10 May 2024

Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution - ### University of Oxford (Publisher)

Torres, I. (Peer reviewer)

Jan 2024 → Mar 2024

Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review

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Thesis

Torres, I. (Author), McGann, M. (Supervisor), Haan, E. (Supervisor) & Wilson, A. (Supervisor), Dec 1994

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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