Staff profile - Professor Melveena McKendrick

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Professor Melveena McKendrick

College:

Positions:
Professor Emerita of Spanish Golden-Age Literature, Culture and Society (member of the Department from 1967 to her retirement in 2008; University Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education, Jan 2004 to Oct 2008); Life Fellow of Girton College

Postal Address:
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
CAMBRIDGE CB3 9DA

Email: mcm1000@cam.ac.uk

Melveena McKendrick specialises in the literature of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, particularly the theatre and its socio-ideological context. Her publications include Woman and Society in the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age (1974); Cervantes (1980); Calderón's El mágico prodigioso (1982); Theatre in Spain 1490-1700 (1989); Playing the King: Lope de Vega and the Limits of Conformity (2000); and Identities in Crisis: Essays on Honour, Gender and Women in the 'Comedia' (2002).