Staff profile

I have two main areas of research: contemporary Latin American cinema and media, on the one hand, and on the other, 16th and 17th century Hispanic literature and culture with an emphasis on the history of science in transatlantic contexts. As an undergraduate I studied Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard, with a secondary focus on Premed, and hold an MA and a PhD in Hispanic Studies from Brown. Prior to my arrival in Durham, I taught at Northwestern University and at the University of Washington. My work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Institute for Citizens & Scholars.

At the undergraduate level, I convene a final-year module, Representing Women: Sex and Power in Colonial Latin America, and co-convene a second-year module, Race and Gender in Latin American Cinema. I also contribute to Identity in the Spanish-Speaking World and Hispanic Texts, as well as to The Art of the Moving Image 2: Theories and Contexts and Sources of the Self. At the postgraduate level, I am part of the teaching and supervisory teams in the MA in Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the MA in Translation Studies. Within the Durham community more broadly, I serve on the steering group for the Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art.

Recorded talks

*2021, ARTES & Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art: 'Illustrating medical treatment in colonial Latin America' (in English)

*2021, Pleibéricos podcast, Interview by Esther Gimeno Ugalde (University of Vienna) about Marvels of Medicine: Literature and Scientific Enquiry in Early Colonial Spanish America, Liverpool UP, 2020 (in Spanish)

*2020, VI Seminario de Escrituras Virreinales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid & CSIC: 'Enfermedad y diferencia racial en la literatura médica novohispana del siglo XVI' (in Spanish)

• Caribbean Literature and Culture
• Colonial Latin America
• Early Modern Studies
• Film Studies
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• History of Science and Medicine

Authored book

• Marvels of Medicine: Literature and Scientific Enquiry in Early Colonial Spanish America
  
  Pérez Marín, Y. (2020). Marvels of Medicine: Literature and Scientific Enquiry in Early Colonial Spanish America. Liverpool University Press.

Book review

• Review of New Argentine Cinema, Jens Andermann (2012)
  
  Perez Marin, Y. (2016). Review of New Argentine Cinema, Jens Andermann (2012). Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas, 13(3), 339-342.

Chapter in book

• The Health of the Soul: Religious Guidance and Medical Practice in Early Colonial Mexico
  
  Pérez Marín, Y. (2022). The Health of the Soul: Religious Guidance and Medical Practice in Early Colonial Mexico. In R. Quispe-Agnoli & A. Brian (Eds.), Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800. (pp. 81-92). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108976893
• Natural History and the Comentarios reales
  
  Pérez Marín, Y. (2022). Natural History and the Comentarios reales. In J. A. Mazzotti & C. Fernández-Palacios (Eds.), Approaches to Teaching the Works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (pp. 76-93). Modern Language Association of America.
• The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Colonial New Spain: A Plural Landscape
  
  Pérez Marín, Y. (2021). The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Colonial New Spain: A Plural Landscape. In A.-S. Goeing, M. Feingold, & G. Parry (Eds.), Early Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Learning (pp. 145-162). Brill Academic Publishers.
• Empathy, Patients' Needs, and Therapeutic Innovation in the Medical Literature of Early Viceregal Mexico
  
  Pérez Marín, Y. (2020). Empathy, Patients’ Needs, and Therapeutic Innovation in the Medical Literature of Early Viceregal Mexico. In J. Page & M. del P. Blanco (Eds.), Geopolitics, culture, and the scientific imaginary in Latin America. (pp. 103-116). University of Florida Press.
• Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
  
  Pérez Marín, Y. (2015). Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. In The Literary Encyclopedia. Literary Dictionary Company.
• Lectoras de medicina: el recetario del Convento de la Purísima Concepción
  
  Pérez Marín, Y. (2014). Lectoras de medicina: el recetario del Convento de la Purísima Concepción. In En torno al documento (pp. 83-91). Universidad de San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) and Colegio de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (COCISOH), Ecuador.
• Lecturas en celuloide: el personaje indígena latinoamericano en el 'cine de época'.
  
  Pérez Marín, Y. (2011). Lecturas en celuloide: el personaje indígena latinoamericano en el ’cine de época’. In S. Kirk (Ed.), Estudios coloniales latinoamericanos en el siglo XXI : nuevos itinerarios. (pp. 183-210). Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.

Journal Article

• El sujeto experimental en América Latina y el legado colonial en la adjudicación de género sexual
  
  Pérez Marín, Y. (2024). El sujeto experimental en América Latina y el legado colonial en la adjudicación de género sexual. Hispanic Issues On Line, 33, 170-185.
• Hands of God: Evangelization and Visual Representation in Juan de la Cruz's Doctrina Christiana (1571)
  
  Pérez Marín, Y. (2014). Hands of God: Evangelization and Visual Representation in Juan de la Cruz’s Doctrina Christiana (1571). Colonial Latin American Historical Review., 19(3), 291-316.
• La tierra enferma: representaciones tempranas del Caribe y el discurso patológico.
  
  Pérez Marín, Y. (2011). La tierra enferma: representaciones tempranas del Caribe y el discurso patológico. Estudios, 17(34), 261-285.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

• Blue Beetle is a solid first outing for the Latino superhero
  
  Pérez Marín, Y. (2023, August 29). Blue Beetle is a solid first outing for the Latino superhero. The Conversation.