Publications

About my teaching:

• Sickness, Suffering, and Supplication: A Conversation about Health and Medicine during The Middle Ages and Early Modern Era in Europe
• Professors Recognized for Pioneering Mentorship Models
• How People in Early Modern Spain Approached Health

What's new:

• Review: Ruth MacKay. Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596–1601., The American Historical Review, Volume 127, Issue 4, December 2022, Pages 1941–1942, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac376
• “Queer cambalaches in El rufián dichoso.” Drawing the Curtain: Cervantes’s Theatrical Revelations. Ed. Esther Fernández and Adrienne L. Martín.  University of Toronto, 2022. 42-71.
• “The Politics of The Origins of Maize: Spanish Naturalism, World Cuisine, and Epidemic Disease.” The Gastronomical Arts in Spain: Food and Etiquette.  Ed. Frederick de Armas and James Mandrell. University of Toronto Press, 2022. 69-94.

Articles in Press:

• “Alchemy and Medicine in Early Modern Iberia.” With Miguel López Pérez. Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters:

• “Drugs, Magic, Coercion, and Consent: From María de Zayas to the ‘World’s Scariest Drug’.” Reconsidering Early Modern Spanish Literature through Mass and Pop Culture: Contemporizing the Classics in the Classroom. Ed. Mindy Badia and Bonnie Gasior. Juan de la Cuesta, 2021. 274-89.
• “Containment, surveillance and biopower in early modern Spain.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 2 (2020): 139-148.
• “Truth, Only More So: Bances Candamo Beyond the Limits of Embodiment.” Comedia Performance 16 (2019): 1-13.
• “Gridded Fascinations: Early Modern Drama’s Geometric Synthesis.” Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain. Enrique García Santo Tomás. University of Toronto Press, 2019. 79-99.
• “Flora’s Fate: Spanish Materia Medica in Manuscript.” Translating Nature: A Cross-Cultural History of Early Modern Science.  Jaime Marroquín and Ralph Bauer.  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 188-202.
• “Alchemical Sermons in Spain: 1675-1708.” Azogue 8 (2014-2018): 271-305.
• “Quevedo and Medical Polemic, from the Sueños to the Enlightenment.” Hacia la Modernidad: la creación de un nuevo orden teórico literario entre Barroco y Neoclasicismo (1651-1750). Alain Bègue and Carlos Mata Induráin.  Estudios del Parnaso olvidado 2.  Vigo: Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, 2018.  199-212.
• John Slater and Maríaluz López-Terrada. “Being beyond: The Black Legend and how we got over it.” History of Science. (2017). DOI 10.1177/0073275317694897

Web Publications:

• John Slater and Maríaluz López Terrada, “Literatura y ciencia,” Saberes en acción, Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero (IILP) y la Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT). 2021. sabersenaccio.iec.cat/es/literatura-y-ciencia/
• John Slater and Maríaluz López Terrada, “Literatura i ciéncia,” Sabers en acció, Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero (IILP) y la Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT). 2021. sabersenaccio.iec.cat/literatura-i-ciencia/
• “La ciencia desde el púlpito,” Saberes en acción, sabersenaccio.iec.cat/es/la-ciencia-desde-el-pulpito/
• “La ciència des del púlpit,” Sabers en acció, Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero (IILP) y la Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT). 2021. sabersenaccio.iec.cat/la-ciencia-des-del-pulpit/

Selected Reviews:

• Folke Gernert. Lecturas del cuerpo. Fisiognomía y literatura en la España áurea. Universidad de Salamanca, 2018. 571 pp. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 55. 2 (2021): 482-484. org/10.1353/rvs.2021.0035
• Fernando Serrano Larráyoz. Graduados en Medicina por la Universidad de Irache (1613–1769). Navarra: Pamiela argitaletxea, 2019. Pp. 384. €22.00 (paperback). ISBN 9788491721253. With Paula Plastić. Hispanic Research Journal 3 (2020): 342-3. Doi.org/10.1080/14682737.2020.1874751
• Juan Pimentel. Fantasmas de la ciencia española.  Madrid: Marcial Pons Historia/Fundación Jorge Juan, 2020.  418 pp. ISBN 978-84-17945-01-5. Centaurus2 (2021): 436-438.  doi.org/10.1111/1600-0498.12367
• M. Portuondo. The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Reviewed in: Annals of Science. Volume 76 (2019), Issue 3-4: 377-380. doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2019.1655665
• Nadeau, Carolyn A. Food Matters: Alonso Quijano’s Diet and the Discourse of Food in Early Modern Spain. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. Reviewed in Hispanófila 184 (2019): 181-183.  With Víctor Cervantes.  org/10.1353/hsf.2018.0064