Victoria Marie Muñoz, PhD

Dr. Victoria Muñoz is Assistant Professor of Global Early Modern Studies in the English Department at Adelphi University. Her research specialties are Anglo-Spanish literary and political relations, empire and colonialism in early modern European literature and drama, and the history of fairy tales. Her first book, Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy: Tudor and Stuart Black Legends  was published in 2021 by Anthem Press's World Epic and Romance series.

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For a book excerpt, see Dr. Muñoz's post on the Folger Shakespeare Library's Shakespeare & Beyond blog: "More strange than true":  Finding America among the faeries. For recent reviews, see Sederi: Spanish and Portuguese Society of English Renaissance Studies Yearbook (no. 32), Renaissance Quarterly (no. 75.4), Laberinto (no. 16) and The Spenser Review  (no. 52.3).The book was also covered on Inside Higher Ed.

 

Dr. Muñoz is currently working on a new book, Seneca the Spaniard in Imperial Spain and England: The Drama and Philosophy of Conquest, which is under contract with De Gruyter Press’s Anticolonial Classics series. The book explores the Renaissance-era revival of Lucius Annaeus Seneca in early modern Spain and England. For more information about this project, click here.