Matthew Goldmark (PhD Hispanic Studies, University of Pennsylvania) is Assistant Professor of Spanish, specializing in colonial Latin American studies. His recent book, Forms of Relation: Composition and Kinship in Colonial Spanish America (University of Virginia Press, 2023), studies conceptions of family in early Latin America and Spain. His research has appeared in the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Colonial Latin American Review, and GLQ. In 2018, he received the award for the “Best Article in Colonial Latin American Studies by a Junior Scholar” from the Colonial Section of the Latin American Studies Association.

See the interview “Authors Corner with Matthew Goldmark” on his book Forms of Relation.

Research Interests

Colonial Latin America and Early Modern Iberia 

Courses Taught

Non-Fiction and Early Spanish America

Introduction to Hispanic Cultural Analysis

Selected Publications

• Forms of Relation: Composition and Kinship in Colonial Spanish America (University of Virginia Press, 2023).
• “Moved by Pity: Communities of Feeling in the Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 44.3 (2020): 621-639.
• "Settling Down: Itinerant Empire and the Ends of Conquest in El Burlador de Sevilla.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 96.8 (2019): 799-814.
• “Formal Encounters: Education, Evangelization, and the Reproduction of Custom in Seventeenth-Century Peru,” in Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century, eds. Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall. University of Toronto Press, 2018, 189-205. Open Access: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=1003973;keyword=knowledge%20unlatched