Victor Sierra Matute
Asst Professor
Weissman School of Arts and Sciences
Department: Modern Languages & Comp Lit
Areas of expertise:
Email Address: victor.sierramatute@baruch.cuny.edu
- Biography
- Teaching
- Research and Creative Activity
- Grants
- Honors and Awards
- Service
Books
Sierra Matute, V. (2025). Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds. Abingdon and New York, Routledge.
Sierra Matute, V. A Sense of Empire: Perceptual and Material Foundations of Early Modern Iberian Colonialism. In Progress.
Journal Articles
(2025). Estrategias e imaginarios barrocos en La sombra de don Quijote (2014) de Patricio Clarey y Lara Fuentes. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 9(1). 187-212.
(2025). Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas (1695). Latin American Research Review, 60(4). 616-631.
(2025). Tarot y temporalidad colonial en Cartas Philippinensis (2016) and Tarot Neocolonial de las Américas (2021). Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 29. 207-226. In Progress.
(2025). A Prince Through the Mirror: Garcilaso de la Vega and the Lyricization of Early Modern Poetry. Romance Quarterly, 72(3). 137-151.
(2025). Public Monuments and the Colonial Legacies of the “Tongue of Cervantes”. Romance Studies, 43(1). 72-86.
(2025). The Past Awakened: Cultural Reimagination in the Global Hispanophone. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 125-133.
(2024). Bolulu, Bolulo, Bolula, Bululú: A Speculative Approach to the Early Modern Single Performer. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 101(1). 23-38.
(2023). Material Methodologies in Early Modern Iberian Treatises. Romanic Review, 113(3). 237-258.
(2021). El giro socioliterario en los estudios del Barroco hispánico. Philobiblion: Revista de Literaturas Hispánicas, 111-123.
Sierra Matute, V., & García Pérez, M. (2021). Formas de sociabilidad literaria: Siglos XVI y XVII. Philobiblion: Revista de Literaturas Hispánicas, 14. 7-20.
(2019). Letra y sonido en las estructuras epistemológicas de la Primera parte del Parnaso antártico (1608). Entre Caníbales: Revista de Literatura, 3(11). 159-181.
(2011). Historia del Códice Daza. Manuscrt.cao, 11. 1-12.
(2009). Tomás Tamayo de Vargas y las cartas al cronista Andrés de Uztarroz. Voz y Letra: Revista de Literatura, 20(2). 137-161.
Book Chapters
(2026). The Spatial Display of Poetry in Recibimiento al obispo Pimentel (1629). The Spatial Turn in the Literature and Art of Early Modern Spain Toronto. University of Toronto Press.
(2025). The Social Life of Sounds in the Early Modern Iberian Empires. Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds Abingdon and New York. Routledge.
(2025). Guamán Poma’s Ecocentric Ethos in Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1616). Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production Gainesville. University Press of Florida.
(2021). Humors and Rumors: Sonic Viscerality in Juan Pérez de Montalbán’s La mayor confusión. Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production Abingdon and New York. Routledge.
Presentations
Sierra Matute, V. (2025, July 26). Opening Remarks: Lope de Vega’s Fuenteovejuna (dir. Bibiana Torres). Invited public lecture. New York: Repertorio Español.
Sierra Matute, V. (2024, February 17). Voices from Beyond: Úrsula de Jesús’s Aural Encounters in Colonial Perú. Guest Speaker: Mediated Spiritualities Colloquium. Princeton University: Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities Council.
Sierra Matute, V. (2024, November 15). Local Sounds, Global Frequencies: The Coloniality of Early Modern Soundscapes. Guest Speaker: New CUNY Voices Lecture Series. The Graduate Center: Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures.
Sierra Matute, V. (2023, November 4). Urban and Rural Soundscapes in Antonio de Guevara’s Menosprecio de corte y alabanza de aldea (1539). Guest Speaker: Medieval and Early Modern Soundscapes: An Interdisciplinary Workshop. Cornell University: Departments of Music, German, and Romance Studies.
Sierra Matute, V. (2021, February 11). Los Enigmas de Sor Juana: una poética del intercambio transatlántico. Guest speaker. Hamilton College: Hispanic Studies Department.
Sierra Matute, V. (2022, February 25). Colonial Cervantes: Addressing Monuments of Don Quixote in the Spanish-Speaking World. Guest speaker. Spelman College: Department of World Languages and Cultures.
Sierra Matute, V. (2024, April 30). Early Modern Whitewashing: From La Academia de los Nocturnos to El negro del cuerpo blanco. Guest speaker: Recovering Black Performance: An International Colloquium. Yale University: Bulletin of the Comediantes.
Sierra Matute, V. (2022, October 15). Spiritual Mediumship and the Soundscape of Purgatory in Úrsula de Jesús’s Diario espiritual (1647-1661). Guest speaker: Latin American Literary Aurality. Vancouver: University of British Columbia.
Other Scholarly Works
Sierra Matute, V., León, P., & Slater, J. (2025). Critical edition: La verdad encantada en el Castillo de la Confusión. Por otro nombre: Peste del Puerto. Translat Library. 7(5),
Sierra Matute, V. (2025). Academic translation: A la usanza romana: Spanish Poetry and alla spagnola Music in Early Modern Rome (1624) [translation from Sebastián León, “‘A la usanza romana’: Poesía, teatro y música alla spagnola en la embajada española de la Roma barroca (1624)”]. Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds. 123-136.
Sierra Matute, V. (2025). Pedagogical note on Navarrete, Ignacio.“Teaching Golden Age Poetry: Modeling Intertextuality Through Hypertext.”. Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. 30(2), 318-320.
Sierra Matute, V. (2025). Special issue: The Past Awakened: Cultural Reimagination in the Global Hispanophone. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. 28
In Progress.Sierra Matute, V. (2022). Academic translation: Divas negras, feminismos negros: el “habla de negros” y el cuerpo de las mujeres negras en Lope de Rueda [translation from Nicholas R. Jones, “Black Divas, Black Feminisms: The Black Female Body and Habla de Negros in Lope de Rueda”]. Mora: Revista del Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género. 28157-182.
Sierra Matute, V., & Garcia, M. (2021). Special issue: Formas de sociabilidad literaria: Siglos XVI y XVII. Philobiblion. 147-74.
Reviews
Sierra Matute, V. (2025,January 1). Review of of Emiro Martínez Osorio and Mercedes Blanco, The War Trumpet: Iberian Epic Poetry, 1543-1639. Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. College Park: Penn State University Press.
Sierra Matute, V. (2025,January 1). Review of Seth Kimmel, The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain. Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies.
Sierra Matute, V. (2025,January 1). Review of Elizabeth Spragins, A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean. ConSecuencias: A Journal of Spanish Criticism.
Sierra Matute, V. (2024,January 1). Review of Mary E. Barnard, A Poetry of Things: The Material Lyric in Habsburg Spain. Hispanófila.
Sierra Matute, V. (2024,November 1). Review of Diego Javier Luis, The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History. Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura.
Sierra Matute, V. (2023,September 1). Review of The Gastronomical Arts in Spain: Food and Etiquette, ed. Frederick A. de Armas and James Mandrell. Cervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America.
Sierra Matute, V. (2023,January 1). Review of David Castillo and William Egginton. What Would Cervantes Do? Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature. Cervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America.
Sierra Matute, V. (2022,September 1). Review of Nicole Legnani, The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World. Hispanic Review.
Sierra Matute, V. (2021,September 1). Review of Rosilie Hernández, Immaculate Conceptions: The Power of the Religious Imagination in Early Modern Spain. Hispanófila.
Sierra Matute, V. (2020,September 1). Review of The Rise of Spanish American Poetry 1500-1700: Literary and Cultural Transmission in the New World, ed. Rodrigo Cacho Casal and Imogen Choi. Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
| Title | Funding Agency Sponsor | Start Date | End Date | Awarded Date | Total Funding | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soundscapes of the Early Modern Iberian Empires | PSC-CUNY 54 | 07/01/2023 | 06/30/2024 | 04/18/2023 | 3500 | Funded - In Progress |