Expertise

Research Areas

  • Spanish American Colonial texts
  • Female spiritual autobiography
  • Semiotics
  • The materiality of manuscripts
  • Digital Humanities

Bio

Dr. Janiga-Perkins’s current projects include

  • Digital Critical edition of The Life Story of Jerónima Nava y Saavedra. In progress with UA Digital Humanities Center.
  • The Madre Maria de San Jose Project: collaboration with UA Digital Humanities Center and the Graduate students of the Department of Modern Languages and Classics.
  • Women’s Spiritual Autobiography: language, materiality and meaning in Colonial Spanish America.
Affiliations
Communities
Language Studies, Spanish
Degrees
PhD, Indiana University Bloomington, 1988
MA, Indiana University Bloomington, Hispanic Literature
Keywords
modern language or literature