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# Isabel Torres

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# Isabel Torres

Professor

- Professor, [School of Arts, English and Languages](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/organisations/school-of-arts-english-and-languages/)
- [Modern Languages](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/organisations/modern-languages/)

[https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3178-4499](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3178-4499 "Orcid")

- Phone+44 (0)28 9097 3633
- Email[I.Torres@qub.ac.uk](#)

- Room 02.002 - 10 University Square

  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*](http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cbhs20/current#.UzP8RPl_ugw "Bulletin of Spanish Studies") member of the [*Tamesis*](https://www.tamesisbooks.com/about_tamesis.asp "Tamesis") International Advisory Board; member of the Editorial Board of [*Calíop*e](https://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_CAL.html)

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.*](https://srbhp.org/membership/board-of-directors/)

Isabel was a member of the [Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College](http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Peer-Review-College/Pages/Peer-Review-College.aspx "AHRC") (2010-18), a member of the [Research Excellence Framework](http://www.ref.ac.uk/ "REF") (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*](http://www.tamesisbooks.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14322 "Monograph 2013") (2013), builds upon her 2006 study, [*The Polyphemus Complex. Rereading the Baroque Mythological Fable*](http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/display/10042120 "BHS book") (Liverpool University Press, 2006). Other relevant publications include the edited collections: [*Rewriting Classical Mythology in the Hispanic Baroque* (](http://www.tamesisbooks.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=11594 "Classical myth volume")Tamesis, 2007); *Ars Eloquentiae. Essays on Early Modern Poetry and Art* (*BHS*, Liverpool, 2009); [Spanish Golden Age Poetry in Motion](http://www.tamesisbooks.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14579) (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*](https://boydellandbrewer.com/studies-on-spanish-poetry-in-honour-of-trevor-j-dadson.html) (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:

- Renaissance and Baroque poetics: interrogated within the context of Renaissance Humanism, informed by sensitivity to the role of Classical theoretical and literary models and/or taking into account a range of modern critical theories as/when appropriate.
- Golden Age *comedia*: theory and practice; subject to a range of methodological and interdisciplinary approaches
- Classical Heritage: especially the transvaluation of Graeco-Roman mythology in early modern literature and culture
- Reception studies
- Early Modern Spanish Cultural Studies

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 Award](http://www.mediator.qub.ac.uk/ms/streams/CED/Teachingawards2011/IsabelTorres.mp3)in 2011 in the category of ‘Sustained Excellence'.

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- Poetry
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- Spanish poetry
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- Subversion
  Arts and Humanities
- Secular
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## Projects

- [2](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/projects/?status=FINISHED)
  Finished

- ### [R6508MOL: Towards a new framework for reception: Gongora's poetics, 'new' readers and the material world](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/projects/ec-h2020-655703-polyphemus/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (PI)

  23/03/2015 → 30/04/2017

  Project: Research
- ### [R1951MOL: Eros, Eris and Empire](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/projects/ahrc-ahg0057371/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (PI)

  01/08/2008 → 31/01/2009

  Project: Research
- ### [R1846MOL: Postgraduate Symposium in Spanish & Portugese Studies](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/projects/ahrc-ct070170/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (PI)

  01/08/2006 → 22/12/2007

  Project: Research
- ### [R1850MOL: VIII Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry (SRBH)](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/projects/british-academy-ocg-46790/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (PI)

  01/08/2006 → 17/11/2007

  Project: Research

## Research output

- [10](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontojournal%2Farticle)
  Article
- [7](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontobookanthology%2Fpeerreviewedchapter)
  Chapter (peer-reviewed)
- [4](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fbookanthology%2Fbook)
  Book
- [1](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fothercontribution%2Fother)
  Other contribution

- ### [A las riberas de mis ojos. Reflections on relevance and motor resonance (kinesis) in early modern Spanish poetry](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/a-las-riberas-de-mis-ojos-reflections-on-relevance-and-motor-reso/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/), 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

  File

  - Motor
  - Spanish poetry
  - Relevance theory
  - Spanish
  - Relevance

  45
  Downloads
  (Pure)
- ### ['New' poetry of the Spanish golden age](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/new-poetry-of-the-spanish-golden-age/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/), 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

  - Lyrics
  - Spanish Golden Age
  - new poetry
  - Transformative
  - Empire
- ### [Studies in Spanish Poetry in Honour of Trevor J. Dadson: Entre los Siglos de Oro y el Siglo XXI.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/studies-in-spanish-poetry-in-honour-of-trevor-j-dadson-entre-los-/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (Editor) & Letrán, J. (Editor), Nov 2019, [Boydell & Brewer Ltd](#).

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
- ### [Voicing Time: The Temporal Textures of Garcilaso de la Vega](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/voicing-time-the-temporal-textures-of-garcilaso-de-la-vega/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/), 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*](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/poetry-bodied-forth-in-timethe-final-ironies-of-cervantes-i-style/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/), 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

  File

  - Poetry
  - Irony
  - Labour
  - Criticism
  - Text

  [1](https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85048066665#tab=citedBy)
  Citation
  (Scopus)

  563
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[View all 35 research outputs](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/publications/)

## Prizes

- ### [British Academy Fellowship](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/british-academy-fellowship/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (Recipient), Jul 2020

  Prize: National/international honour
- ### [Corresponding Fellow, Royal Spanish Academy (Miembro correspondiente extranjera de la Real Academia Española)](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/corresponding-fellow-royal-spanish-academy-miembro-correspondient/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (Recipient), 23 Jun 2016

  Prize: National/international honour
- ### [Henry Hutchinson-Stewart Award](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/henry-hutchinson-stewart-award/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (Recipient), 1988

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
- ### [Member of the Royal Irish Academy](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/member-of-the-royal-irish-academy-4/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (Recipient), 24 May 2019

  Prize: National/international honour
- ### [President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/president-of-the-association-of-hispanists-of-great-britain-and-i/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (Recipient), 2015

  Prize: Election to learned society

[View all 11 prizes](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/prizes/)

## Activities

- [11](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fattendance%2Fconferenceparticipation)
  Participation in conference
- [10](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fmembership%2Fcommittee)
  Membership of peer review panel or committee
- [5](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fconsultancy%2Fcontribution_to_the_work_of_national_or_international_committees_and_working_groups)
  Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
- [5](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Feditorialwork%2Fpublicationpeerreview)
  Publication peer-review
- 31
  More

  - [**9** Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Ftalk%2Finvited_or_keynote_talk_at_national_or_international_conference)
  - [**7** Invited talk](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Ftalk%2Finvited_talk)
  - [**6** PhD external examination](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fexamination%2Fexamination)
  - [**6** UG external examination](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fexamination%2Fug_external_examination)
  - [**6** Membership of national or international committees and working groups](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fmembership%2Fmembership_of_national_or_international_committees_and_working_groups)
  - [**4** Editorial activity](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Feditorialwork%2Feditorial)
  - [**4** Membership of external research organisation](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fmembership%2Fcouncil)
  - [**3** Hosting an academic visitor](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fhostvisitor%2Fhostvisitor)
  - [**2** PGT external examination](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fexamination%2Fpgt_external_examination)
  - [**1** Participation in workshop, seminar, course](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fattendance%2Fworkshopseminarcourseparticipation)
  - [**1** Other examination](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fexamination%2Fother_examination)
  - [**1** Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fmembership%2Fmembership_of_public_government_advisory_policy_group_or_panel)
  - [**1** Visiting an external academic institution](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fvisitother%2Fvisitother)

- ### [Invited Speaker MLA 2025. New Orleans](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/invited-speaker-mla-2025-new-orleans/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (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](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/towards-250-years-of-modern-languages-mapping-the-future-in-highe/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (Organiser)

  29 Nov 2024

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
- ### [Charles V Lecture. Malta. 2024](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/charles-v-lecture-malta-2024/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (Keynote speaker)

  09 May 2024

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
- ### [University of Malta](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/university-of-malta-3/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (Visiting researcher)

  06 May 2024 → 10 May 2024

  Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
- ### [University of Oxford (Publisher)](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/university-of-oxford-publisher/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (Peer reviewer)

  Jan 2024 → Mar 2024

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

[View all 103 activities](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/activities/)

## Thesis

- ### [The Orphic voice in Garcilaso de la Vega, Quevedo and Bocangel](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/the-orphic-voice-in-garcilaso-de-la-vega-quevedo-and-bocangel/)

  [Torres, I.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/isabel-torres/) (Author), McGann, M. (Supervisor), Haan, E. (Supervisor) & Wilson, A. (Supervisor), Dec 1994

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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