Teresa S. Soufas, Professor
Golden Age Spanish Literature
504-862-3407
Newcomb 304 B
email: tsoufas@

Teresa S. Soufas is Professor of Golden Age Literature in the Department. She earned her B.A. at Emory University and her doctorate at Duke University. Arriving at Tulane in 1986, she has served as department chair and director of graduate studies. She likewise was named Dean of the Faculty of the Liberal Arts and Sciences in January 1998, overseeing 22 academic departments and 17 interdisciplinary programs. Dr. Soufas stepped down from this administrative position during the immediate post-Katrina period in November 2005, and returned to her full-time faculty position. Devoted to her teaching and research, she contributes to the former with courses that range across numerous departmental offerings, with many of these being in her field of scholarly speciality in Golden Age literature and women’s literature in early modern Spain.

Dr. Soufas’s publications include numerous articles on Golden Age topics, appearing in journals such as MLN, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Journal of Hispanic Philology, and Bulletin of the Comediantes, among others. She has published book-length studies entitled Melancholy and the Secular Mind in Spanish Golden Age Literature, as well as Dramas of Distinction: Plays by Golden Age Women and an edition of female-authored plays from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, Women’s Acts: Plays by Women Dramatists of Spain’s Golden Age. She continues to investigate issues pertaining to the early modern representation of gender, authority, and performance strategies and is preparing a study of Isabel I in these contexts.