Stephanie Kirk

Stephanie Kirk is Director of the Center for the Humanities and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Washington University in St. Louis where she also holds affiliate appointments in Religious Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. As director of the Center for the Humanities, she runs several programs and initiatives focusing on graduate education and career outcomes, undergraduate research, public humanities and research groups on Reproductive Justice and Environmental Humanities.  She recently won a NEH Grant, “Humanities at Work: Graduate Internships for the Next Generation,” that provides intern opportunities for graduate students at mission driven. A specialist in gender and Catholicism in colonial Latin America she is the author of two books, two edited volumes and numerous articles and essays. She is currently working on her third monograph, Bodies as Books: Early Modern Jesuit Writings on Global Martrydom. She is also a translator, recently translating Mabel Moraña’s “We, the Barbarians": Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century” (Vanderbilt, 2024). Additionally, she is currently engaged in a translation and scholarly edition of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora’s seventeenth-century chronicle of convent life in Mexico City, Western Paradise.