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Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
She holds a degree in Modern Philology from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and a degree in Dutch Literature of the Renaissance and the Baroque from Utrecht University.
In 2003 she received her PhD degree at this university. The revised and expanded English edition of her PhD thesis was published as The Dutch Revolt through Spanish Eyes. Self and Other in historical and literary texts of Golden Age Spain (c. 1548-1673) (Peter Lang 2008).
Research
Her research deals primarily with imagology and the cultural transfer between Spain and the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, especially regarding the literary and historical representation of the Netherlands in Spanish sources.
Golden Age theatre is her main literary field of expertise. The self-image Spaniards present of themselves in this period and nationbuilding processes are also object of study.
Since 2010 she has been the chair of the AHBx (Asociación de Hispanistas del Benelux). She is currently the project leader of the internationalization project of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) The Black Legend and the Spanish identity in Golden Age Spanish Theatre (1580-1665). She is also the project leader of the NWO - VIDI project (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Innovational Research Incentives Scheme) Mixed feelings. Literary Hispanophilia and Hispanophobia in England and the Netherlands in the Early Modern period and the nineteenth century (2015-2020).
