Emily Kuffner

Dr. Emily Kuffner is an Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at the California State University, Fullerton. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in Early Modern Spanish Literature with a secondary focus in Gender Studies. Dr. Kuffner’s research investigates the history of sexuality and women’s writing in Golden Age Spain through the lens of cultural studies. She is the author of Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque: Architectural Space and Prostitution in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Amsterdam University Press, 2019), as well as a number or articles in the Journal of the History of Sexuality, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Hispanic Studies Review, and more.