The Camino de Santiago in the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Global Views - Paperback

by Samuel Sánchez Y. Sánchez (Editor), Annie Hesp (Editor)

This volume fills a gap in current pilgrimage studies, focusing on contemporary representations of the Camino de Santiago. It situates the Camino as a modern experience and engages interdisciplinary perspectives to present a theoretical framework for exploring the most central issues that concern scholars of pilgrimage studies today.

Author Biography

Samuel Sánchez y Sánchez is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Davidson College, USA. His research interests include literary and cultural representations of love and death in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, Pilgrimage Studies, and Linguistics. He has published on the literary reception of Don Quijote, early modern desire, medieval narratives of mourning, and on the connections between early modern models of readership and material culture.

Annie Hesp is an Instructor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech, USA. Her areas of research include literary and visual representations of the Camino de Santiago. She has published on the Camino as a pedagogical tool and on first-person Camino narratives.