Sol Miguel-Prendes

Sol Miguel Prendes (Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1993) is Professor of Spanish at Wake Forest University. She is also an affiliated faculty member of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program.

Her publications and interests focus on the history of emotions, the Latin tradition, and the history of reading in multilingual Iberia. Her latest book is Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain (UNC Press, 2019). This book proposes a multilingual history of vernacular reading, writing, and reception of the materia de amore, the discourse on love that advanced vernacular literariness and redefined the role of literary authorship at the intersection of the medieval and Early Modern periods. Narrating Desire received the 2021 La corónica Book Award for the best monograph published in the field of hispanomedieval studies.

Miguel Prendes is the recipient of grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte del Gobierno de España, and a Gale Family Fellowship at Wake Forest University. She has served as President of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. She currently serves in the editorial boards of Speculum, Hispanófila, and La corónica.

Sol Miguel-Prendes is the Castilian editor of the Open Iberia/América project, an online, open access teaching anthology of premodern Iberian and Latin American texts.

• SPA 212: Exploring the Hispanic World
• SPA 280: The Spanish-Speaking World: Portals and Perspectives
• SPA 280L: The Spanish-Speaking World: Portals and Perspectives for Heritage Speakers
• SPA 310: Anecdotes, Bestsellers, Cuentos. The ABCs of Storytelling in the Spanish-Speaking World
• SPA 315: The Making of Spain: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Cultures of Spain
• SPA 331: Medieval Spain: A Cultural and Literary Perspective
• SPA 399: Honors Directed Writing

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