Maria del Carmen Saen-de-Casas

E-mail Address: carmen.saen@lehman.cuny.edu
Phone Number: 718-960-8229
Office: Carman Hall, Room 279
Rank: Associate Professor

Education

• B.A., University of Seville (Spain)
• M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Ph.D.,CUNY Graduate Cener

Biographic

Carmen Saen de Casas is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Lehman College (City University of New York). She received her “Licenciatura en Geografía e Historia” from the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, in 1985; her M.A. in History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1987; her M.A. in Spanish Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1989; and her Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) in 2006. From 1989 to 1997, she was the Administrative Director of the Cornell University/University of Michigan/University of Pennsylvania Study Abroad Program in Seville, Spain. Before joining the faculty at Lehman College, she held part-time teaching positions at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 1986-1989), Princeton University (2001-2004), and several CUNY Colleges (York, BMCC, Queens, Brooklyn and Hunter, 1997-2004).

She is the author of the book, La imagen literaria de Carlos V en sus crónicas castellanas (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009). Her research has focused on Spanish historiography and theater of the Golden Age. She has published several articles and reviews on these subjects in journals such as Rilce, Boletín de la Fundación Federico García Lorca, Talia dixit, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Ciberletras, Anuario Lope de Vega, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Confluencia, Renaissance Quarterly and The Sixteenth Century Journal. She is currently working on her second book, The Emperor Charles the Fifth and Francis the First of France in Early Modern Spanish Drama.