Rate My Professor Alisa Tigchelaar

Tigchelaar's scholarship focuses on Early Modern Spanish religious literature, dealing mainly with the production of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish cloistered nuns and what their works reveal about their lives and the expression of their spirituality. She investigates how literature reveals insights about society and people, providing readers a platform to dialogue about their own environments, ideas, and realities. Particular interests include contrasting the roles afforded to secular women versus religious women as suggested in their literary productions. Key publications include "'Puesto un muro en este prado ameno': Cecilia del Nacimiento's Pastoral Drama as Shepherding Space" in Crítica Hispánica 35.1 (2013): 145-168; "Marcela de San Félix's Mystic Theology through Drama: Platonic and Augustinian Influences" (2014); an English translation of the Catalonian medieval poem "Veles i vents" (January 2015); and the co-authored chapter "María de San José Salazar's Mount Carmel: Global Identity through the Natural World in Libro de las recreaciones" (2024) with Antónia Conde, Fábio Mário, Luísa Vilela, and José Eduardo Franco. She has presented works such as "Meaningful Paradoxes: Rhetorical Strategies in Early Modern Female Writing" at the Early Modern Women's Conference in Milwaukee (June 2015) and delivered a lecture at the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies in February 2014. Tigchelaar has also contributed to the Diversity & Inclusion for All podcast series, discussing topics like race, racism, transformation, and intersectionality alongside colleagues.