Ariadna García-Bryce

Professor of Spanish and Humanities

Early modern Spanish literature and culture.

Diplôme Supérieur 1985 Université de Paris, Sorbonne.
BA 1989 Yale University.
MA 1993, PhD 1997 Princeton University.
Reed College 2001–.

Ariadna García-Bryce grew up in Peru. She earned her BA from Yale University in 1989, majoring in Comparative Literature; she earned her PhD in Spanish Literature from Princeton University in 1997. Her field is early modern Spanish literature and culture and she is author of Experiencing Time in the Early Modern Hispanic World: After Apocalypse (Routledge, 2023) and Transcending Textuality: Quevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011). She has also published in many peer-reviewed journals on a variety of topics: the relationship between drama, religion, and visual culture; rhetoric, poetics and the construction of social authority; the appropriation of Baroque poetics in twentieth-century Latin America; conceptions of the body and gender construction. At Reed, aside from courses in her area of expertise, she teaches Humanities 110, “Introduction to Humanities: Greece and the Ancient Mediterranean”, and Humanities 210, “Early Modern Europe.”