María Dolores Morillo

María Dolores Morillo holds a PhD in Spanish from Columbia University. She is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at California State University, Fresno, where she teaches courses on Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literatures and cultures. Her research focuses on the study of verisimilitude and mimesis in Miguel de Cervantes’s plays and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s interludes, which has appeared in journals such as Cervantes, Anuario de Estudios Cervantinos, Theatralia, and Cuadernos Cervantes. She has also published articles on the female picaresca, comediantes and pícaros. She is currently working on the different aspects of the lives of women actors and theater managers, especially the intimate relation between work and family life, after the foundation of the Actors’ Guild in 1631. Her research interests also explore new trends in teaching Spanish Golden Age texts in the 21^st century.