Lisa Vollendorf is professor of Spanish and dean of the College of Humanities and the Arts at San Jose State University. She is the author of "The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain" (2005) and the editor of "Recovering Spain's Feminist Tradition" (2001); "Literatura y feminismo en Espana" (2006); with Daniella Kostroun, "Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World (1600-1800)" (2009); and, with Harold Braun, "Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic" (2013).