Center for the Study of the Early Modern World

Ana Garriga is a Ph.D. student from Spain. She received her BA in Spanish Philology from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and completed her Masters in Hispanic Literature at the same university. After her master’s, she spent six months at UC Berkeley as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her current interests include the crisis of representation of the Baroque (both in Spain and Spanish America), early modern notions of truth and falsehood, the economic crisis of Spain in the seventeenth century, alchemy, and material culture. She has also worked on Saint Teresa of Avila and the practice of letter-writing in the early modern period.