Jeremy Robbins

Forbes Chair of Hispanic Studies

Biography

Qualifications

  • BA and DPhil, University of Oxford

Responsibilities & affiliations

I am on the Editorial Advisory Committee of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, having been General Editor 2004-13, and on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Anuario de Estudios Cervantinos.

Research summary

My work centres on early modern Spanish culture and is both interdisciplinary and comparative in scope and method.  Focusing on literature, history of ideas, and art and architecture, my research analyses the Baroque as a European phenomenon, and the Spanish Baroque as a major variant of this.

Published and ongoing research covers various aspects of Spanish and European Baroque culture:

  • Spanish Golden Age art and literature (poetry, prose and drama), with a particular interest in Luis de Góngora, Baltasar Gracián, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Francisco de Zurbarán and Diego Velázquez.
  • Court culture under Philip IV (1621-65) and Charles II (1665-1700) of Spain.
  • Early modern moral and political philosophy, with a primary focus on Neostoicism and scepticism and their cultural and intellectual impact, especially in the Spanish-speaking world.
  • Court drama and scenography in Baroque Europe.
  • Early modern Jesuits (especially Loyola, Ribadeneira, Gracián).
  • European Baroque quadratura (with a particular focus on (a) Angelo Michele Colonna and Agostino Mitelli and (b) Andrea Pozzo) and the use of space in art, architecture and stage design.
  • The Flemish artist Daniel Seghers.

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