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Dr. D. Scott Hendrickson, S.J.

Degrees

• DPhil, Spanish literature, Oxford University, 2013 
• Licensure in Ecclesiastical Studies, Comillas Pontifical University, 2008
• MA, Hispanic Studies, New York University, 2002
• MA, Spanish Literature, Bowling Green State University, 1997

Research Interests

• The Spanish Golden Age
• Religious art and literature of early modern Spain 
• Jesuit spiritual and devotional texts
• The history of printing in Spain and Latin America 
• Cervantes and the  Quijote 

Professional & Community Affiliations

• Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
• Modern Language Association 
• Cervantes Society of America 
• Renaissance Society of America 
• MMLA

Courses Taught

• Spanish composition and conversation 
• Introduction to Spanish literature 
• Golden Age Theater
• Don Quixote
• Spanish culture and civilization
• Spanish mystics

Selected Publications

• Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595–1658). Literatura y espiritualidad en el Siglo de Oro español (Madrid: Universidad Comillas / Bilbao: Sal Terrae-Mensajero, 2018) [Spanish edition of Jesuit Polymath, 2015]
• “Early Guaraní Printing: Nieremberg’s De la diferencia and the Global Dissemination of Seventeenth-Century Spanish Asceticism,” in Journal of Jesuit Studies 5.4 (2018)
• “Seeing in Imagination: Visual Representation and Spiritual Contemplation in the Ascetical Treatises of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg,” in Hispanic Studies Review 2.2 (2017)
• Jesuit Polymath of Madrid: The Literary Enterprise of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658) (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015)
• "Empresarios y mercaderes en el tiempo barroco: los jesuitas y la misión pedagógica," in Empresas y empresarios en tiempos de barroco (Actas de las conferencias / Escuela de Barroco), ed. by Antonio-Miguel Bernal Rodríguez (Seville: Fundación Focus-Abengoa, 2014): 37-43. 
• “A Jesuit Catechism: Aspects of Discernment in Juan Eusebio Nieremberg’s Doctrina Christiana (1640),” in Los jesuitas: religión, política y educación (siglos xvi-xviii), ed. by José Martínez Millán, Henar Pizarro Llorente, and Esther Jiménez Pablo, 3 vols (Madrid: Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 2012): ii, 1,221-36.