Laura R. Bass, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, came to Tulane in 2000 with an M.A. from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. Her teaching and research focus on the literature, art and culture of the early modern Hispanic world.  Her first book The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain (Penn State UP), crosses the disciplines of literature and art history to examine the stage as a central arena for shaping a sophisticated visual and material culture in seventeenth-century Madrid.  She is co-editor, with Margaret R. Greer, of Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama, published in 2006 in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Current projects include a book-length study of poetics and ideology in viceregal Peru and a collaborative article, with historian Amanda J. Wunder, titled “The Spanish Veil: Fashion and Theatricality in Early Modern Spain.”

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