Perez Villanueva, SoniaIsabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and CulturesEast Academic Center2016-03-142016-03-142015-04-09http://hdl.handle.net/11209/9211We will focus on the aesthetics of suffering, particularly on representations of gendered violence in Spain from the seventeenth century to contemporary times. We will analyze narrative forms— theatre, novels and scripts—and visual depictions—paintings and film—of violence, or in other words, we will explore the “beautiful” or grotesque spectacle of female suffering. This research has, of course, a common denominator: the control of women and the violence against them. In spite of the progress of time and the political efforts to protect victims of domestic violence in Spain, fiftythree women were killed by their husbands in 2014. Dr Sonia Pérez-Villanueva is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Humanities at Lesley University. She is the author of The Life of Catalina de Erauso, The Lieutenant Nun: An Early Modern Autobiography (2014).enPostersViolence against women--SpainImage