Alison Weber is Professor of Spanish, and she holds affiliate appointments in the Corcoran Department of History and the Program in Jewish Studies. Her expertise in Golden Age literatures, religious discourse, and women's writing in early modern Spain been widely recognized by colleagues and students. Her recent work examines eucharistic discourse and literary representations of the sacrament after transubstantiation, including polemics about what it meant to consume the divine in flesh and blood. She is especially interested in the relationship between early modern religious writing and sociocultural notions of religious and gender differences that are reflected in -- and produced by -- writers in the sixteenth centuries. She is the author of numerous monographs, including Teresa de Avila and the Rhetoric of Femininity (Princeton UP, 1990; reprinted in paperback in 1996 and translated into Italian in 1993); a critical edition of the Book for the Hour of Recreation: María de San José Salazar (trans. Amanda Powell, Chicago UP, 2002); Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Ávila and the Spanish Mystics (MLA, 2009); Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World (Ashgate, 2016).