

Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
Lyons Hall 204B
Telephone: 617-552-1479
Email: crespoja@bc.edu
ORCID
Early Modern Iberian Literatures and Cultures; History of the Book; History of Sexuality; Iberian Mysticism; Gender Studies; LGBTQ Studies.
Esteban Crespo鈥檚 research and teaching focus on 15th-, 16th-, and 17th-century Iberian cultures and literatures. His research explores gender, desire, race, and sexuality in relation to the history of the book, contemporary critical thought, and colonial studies. His current book project, Queer Pleasures: Constructing Early Modern Dissident Sexual Cultures, analyzes the presence of sexual and gender variance in the Iberian Peninsula and the viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This project argues, on the one hand, that early modern Iberian cultures incorporated dissident sexualities and gender variance in richer, more quotidian ways than only through policing systems, including mainstream culture. On the other, it demonstrates that such ways were ubiquitous and coterminous on both sides of the Atlantic. Before joining md传媒国产剧 College, Dr. Crespo has taught at md传媒国产剧 University and has held fellowships at Harvard University (Houghton Library), Brown University (John Carter Brown Library) and the Folger Memorial Library.
鈥Diferencias,鈥 in Marjorie Rubright and Stephen Spiess (eds.), , 129鈥145, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 2025.
鈥淎mbiguous Race in Early Modern Quito Sculpture,鈥 in Nicholas R. Jones, Christina H. Lee, and Dominique Polanco (eds.), , 314鈥327, Routledge, 2025.
鈥淐arpentier, b铆blico y dantesco: La Malinche y Rajab en La aprendiz de bruja,鈥 , 1 (2022): 207鈥242.
鈥淧sicolog铆a asc茅tica y gimnasia comportamental: la inspiraci贸n ignaciana de William James鈥 [with Patrizia Di Patre], 24 (2019): 63鈥84.
鈥淟eer el Quijote en Yale,鈥 821 (November 2018): 94鈥101.
聽鈥淩esearching at the Folger鈥, , Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., June 27, 2025.
鈥淎 Queer Isolario: Iberian Geographies for Fugitive Genders,鈥 organized by Rolena Adorno, Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, md传媒国产剧, March 20-22, 2025.
鈥淨ueer Iberian Intimacies,鈥 Department of History, University of Rochester, February 6, 2025.
with Greta Lafleur and Nicholas R. Jones, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University, February 4, 2025.
鈥淭rans Archipielagic Utopias in Iberia,鈥 , md传媒国产剧 University, March 23-24, 2025.
鈥淭rans Dis/Utopic Theory and Geography: From Las Casas to Pseudo-Quevedo,鈥 , Princeton University, October 31, 2024.
鈥淧hilocaptio sodomitica: hechicer铆a y homosexualidad en el teatro espa帽ol,鈥 Hamilton College, April 17, 2024.
鈥淚ntimidad y redes homoer贸ticas transatl谩nticas鈥, Latin American Studies Association, Annual Conference, Universidad Javeriana, June 13, 2024.
鈥淲hence?: The Trans* Atlantic Iberian Worlds,鈥 Folger Shakespeare Memorial Library, , Washington D.C., May 18-21, 2023.
(online), Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico, Coordinaci贸n de Igualdad de G茅nero, M茅xico City, May 24, 2023.
Joan Nordell Fellow, Harvard University (Houghton Library), Fall 2024 and Spring 2025
Short-Term Research Fellowship, Brown University (John Carter Brown Library), Summer 2025
Short-Term Research Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, Fall 2024 and Spring 2025
Graduate and Professional School Research Fellowship, Yale University (Beinecke Library), Spring 2022
Sara Page Hill Fellowship Fund, Yale University (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), 2018-2021.
鈥(Re)visiones: el poder transformador de las pasiones en el archivo americano,鈥 English to Spanish translation of an article by in Susan Broomhall. , 31.2 (2022): 291-299.
Committee Member, Conference Program Committee, , August 2023鈥揇ecember 2025 (by invitation of the Committee Chair).
Committee Member, Webinars Committee, Renaissance Society of America, 2021-2024 (by invitation of the Society鈥檚 President).