Carlos Iglesias-Crespo works on the literature and intellectual history of the early modern Iberian world. His research primarily examines how changing ideas of memory structured poetry’s relationship to knowledge and empire. This is the subject of his first monograph, Memory on the Line: Petrarchism, Intellectual Culture, and Empire in Early Modern Spain (under contract with Cornell University Press). Wider interests include the cultural history of the body, the global outlook of early modern literature, and the interplay between rhetoric and cognition. He has explored some of these topics as co-editor of Horizontes de la historia del cuerpo en las literaturas y culturas iberoamericanas (Sílex, 2025) and the special issue of Calíope “Global Echoes: The Worlds of Early Modern Hispanic Poetry” (Spring 2023), as well as in several articles published and forthcoming in Intellectual History Review, Revista de Filología Española, Journal for the History of Rhetoric, BHS, Rhetorica, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and Hispanic Research Journal. At present, he is in the early stages of a new project on early modern soldiers’ writing, focusing on how veterans negotiated combat-acquired disabilities and reflected on the wounded body, both human and politic.
Carlos studied Classics and Spanish Philology at the Universidad de Extremadura and received his MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge. Before joining Christ’s as Junior Research Fellow, he was a lecturer at the University of Oxford. He has also taught Spanish language and literature at Kalamazoo College. His research has been supported by the “La Caixa” Foundation, the AHRC, and the Cambridge Trust.
