Research output per year
Research output per year
BA (Hons) (Kent), MSt (Oxon), MLitt (Oxon), MA (Cantab) PhD (London)
Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies; HEA Senior Fellow
Deputy Head of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Director of Internationalisation, School of Humanities
Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies and of the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies
Arantza Mayo arrived at Royal Holloway following teaching stints at Oxford and a University Lectureship at the University of Cambridge, where she also served as Fellow of Corpus Christi College.
Arantza specialises in early modern literature and culture in Spain and colonial America, particularly religious poetry, its devotional background and the relationship between literature and the visual arts. Her work on La Lírica Sacra de Lope de Vega y José de Valdivielso has been published in the Biblioteca Áurea Hispánica series (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2007). She also has an interest in Bolivian literature and culture, in particular twentieth-century poetry and the social contexts of its production. Recent publications include essays on Spanish Golden Age, colonial and 20th-century Spanish American poetry.
Her current research interests include narratives of pain and the Passion (textual, visual), the performance of devotion, the works of Teresa de Jesús, and the poetry of Pedro Shimose. A monograph on Teresa of Avila is under contract with Tamesis. She is also preparing a critical edition of Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo's Los triunfos de la beata soror Juana de la Cruz.
Arantza has won prizes for her research (the prestigious ‘Premio Conde de Cartagena’, awarded by the Real Academia Española) as well as her teaching (a 'College Teaching Fellowship Award', a Students' Union ‘Apple for the Teacher’ award plus a further nomination for the same prize).
Arantza serves on the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies as well as on the Board of its sister journal, the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies.
Early Modern Spanish and Spanish American Literature
Early Modern Religious Literature, Visual Arts and Material Culture in the Hispanic World
Bolivian Poetry
Arantza welcomes proposals for postgraduate study in any of her fields of study.
Arantza enjoys teaching modules on Early Modern Literature and Visual Arts in Spain and Colonial America. She also teaches 20th-century Latin American Literature and Culture.
SN1105 Journeys of Identity
SN1109 Discovery, Subversion and Destruction
SN2118 From Public Display to Private Devotion: Religion and Society in the 16th- and 17th-century Hispanic World
SN 2124/3119 Conflict in 20th-century Latin American Literature and Culture
SN2107/3107 Deceit, Desire and the Self in the Early Modern Hispanic World
ML1301 Visual Arts 1: Artists and their Materials
ML2302 Visual Arts 2: Genres and Movements
Scientific Advisory Board, Revista La Perinola, Universidad de Navarra
2 Apr 2025 → …
Associate Editor, Bulletin of Spanish Studies
2017 → …
Associate Editor, Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies
2017 → …
Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Bonilla Cerezo, R. (PI) & Mayo, A. (CoI)
1/09/22 → 1/09/25
Project: Research
Mayo, A. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Mayo, A. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Mayo, A. (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Mayo, A. (Examiner)
Activity: Examination
Mayo, A. (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Mayo, A. (Recipient), 2003
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Mayo, A. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Appointment