{"id":29,"date":"2016-07-27T17:27:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T17:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/early-modern-studies\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2025-06-26T12:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:09:56","slug":"kirsten-mendoza","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/early-modern-studies\/kirsten-mendoza\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirsten Mendoza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"where-from wp-block-heading\">Vanderbilt University<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/early-modern-studies\/files\/2016\/07\/headshot-kirsten-mendoza-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"headshot-kirsten mendoza\" class=\"wp-image-69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/early-modern-studies\/files\/2016\/07\/headshot-kirsten-mendoza.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/early-modern-studies\/files\/2016\/07\/headshot-kirsten-mendoza-143x200.jpg 143w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Kirsten Mendoza is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at Vanderbilt University. Her dissertation analyzes the entwined discourses of rape, race, and consent in the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. The premise that she puts forth in this project argues that legal and social transformations concerning women\u2019s consent was neither independent nor tangential to an imperialist agenda but, instead, central to emerging notions of English supremacy. Early modern theatrical depictions of feminine&nbsp;eroticism, submission, and touch\u2014both wanted and unwanted\u2014participated in the construction of an ideological apparatus that galvanized a push toward empire. In this way, a politics of touch creates a paradigm for both private sexual acts and also public political engagements that annexes the erotic to serve domestic, political, and economic agendas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kirsten has been the recipient of the Huntington Library Residential Summer Institute Award and the RMMLA Women\u2019s Caucus Award for Best Feminist Convention Presentation. While at Vanderbilt, she has received the Susan Ford Wiltshire Essay Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay and the English Department\u2019s John M. Aden Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Writing.<\/p>\n\t<style id=\"bates-page-specific-css\/css\" class=\"wp-block-bates-page-specific-css-css\">.where-from { margin: .4em 0 1em 0; }<\/style> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanderbilt University Kirsten Mendoza is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":416,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/early-modern-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/early-modern-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/early-modern-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/early-modern-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/early-modern-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/early-modern-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/early-modern-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/early-modern-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}