2024 University Scholar: Rosa María Stoops

Abstract

Dr. Rosa María Stoops joined the faculty in 2005 after completing a doctorate in romance languages at the University of Alabama. Her areas of specialization are French and Spanish language and literatures and literary theory. Her research focuses on the work of French and Spanish authors of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, especially on the works of Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Her articles and contributions are published in Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Cervantes: The Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes, and Anuario de Estudios Cervantinos, among others. In 2022, Stoops became the first Christiane Angele Jacobson Endowed Chair of Spanish at UM.