Recent Publications

“The Many Faces of Female Discipline: Gender Control, Subversion and the Nun-Confessor Relationship in Golden Age Barcelona,” in Manuela Scarci, ed., Creating Women: Notions of Femininity from 1350 to 1700 (forthcoming Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2013).

“Sex (Miscegenation)” and “Sex (Sodomy),” in Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Technologies of a Transatlantic Cultural Transfer (forthcoming 2013, University of Texas Press)

“Syphilis, Sex, and Marriage in Early Modern Spain,” Journal of Early Modern History 15, no. 3 (2011): 223-53.

“Crossing Borders: Identity, Difference and Community,” Journal of Eastern Township Studies 37 (Fall 2011)

“Textiles as Social Texts: Syphilis, Material Culture and Gender in Golden Age Spain,” Journal of Social History 44, no. 3 (Spring 2011): 785-810.

With Stephanie Fink De Backer, coauthor. “Queerness, Syphilis and Enlightenment in Eighteenth Century Madrid,” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos 35, no. 1 (2010): 31-48. 

“Producing Patriarchy: Male Homosexuality and Gender in Early Modern Spain,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 17, no. 3 (September 2008): 351-376.

“The Masks of Normalcy: Homosexual Behaviour, Syphilis, and Decline in Juan Calvo’s Valencia,” in Kenneth Borris and G. S. Rousseau, eds., The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 92-113

“Social Control and its Limits: Sodomy, Local Sexual Economies, and Inquisitors during Spain’s Golden Age,” Sixteenth Century Journal 36, no. 2 (2005): 331-358.

“Juana Pimentel, the Mendoza Family, and the Crown,” in Helen Nader, ed., Power and Gender in Renaissance Spain: The Mendoza Women (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004), pp. 27-47.

“Revealing the Other: Moriscos, Crime, and Local Politics in Toledo’s Hinterland in the Late Sixteenth Century,” Medieval Encounters  8, no. 2-3 (2002): 135-159.

“Between Piety and Sin: Zaragoza’s Confraternity of San Roque, Syphilis and Sodomy,” Confraternitas 13, no. 2 (Fall 2002): 3-16.

“Silencing the Unmentionable: Non Reproductive Sex and the Creation of a Civilized Argentina, 1860-1900,” The Americas 58, no. 3 (January 2002): 419-441.

Review of Lisa Vollendorf. The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain. In Hispanic Review 76, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 317-320.

Review of Jodi Bilinkoff, Related Lives. Confessors and their Female Penitents, 1450-1750. In The SSPHS Bulletin 32 (2007)

Review of Kevin Siena, ed., Sins of the Flesh. Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe. In Quaderni D’Italianistica 27, no. 1 (2006): 129-131.

Review of Eukene Lacarra Lanz, ed., Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. In Journal of the History of Sexuality 12, no. 4 (October 2003): 650-653

Review of Francesca Canade Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn, eds., Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages. In Newsletter of the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History (Fall 2003).

Review of Georgina Dopico Black, Perfect Wives, Other Women: Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain. In Canadian Journal of History (April 2003).

Review of José Sánchez Herrero, ed., CXIX Reglas de Hermandades y Cofradías Andaluzas. Siglos XIV, XV y XVI. In Confraternitas 14, no. 1 (Spring 2003).

Review of Susan V. Webster, Arquitectura y empresa en el Quito colonial. José Jaime Ortiz, Alarife Mayor. In Confraternitas 14, no. 1 (Spring 2003).

“Reading the Other’s Body/ Percevoir le corps de l’autre” in Bodies in Question(s) Exhibit. Montreal, May 28-June 1, 2012.

“Moriscos” and “Moriscos, Expulsion of (Spain),” in Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, ed. Jonathan Dewald (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003), Vol 4, 192-193. 

“Inquisition” and “Spain” in glbtq: An Online Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bixexual, Transgender and Queer Culture, ed. Claude J. Summers (Chicago: glbtq, Inc., 2003), www.glbtq.com