Yelsy Hernández Zamora

Yelsy Hernández Zamora received her bachelor’s degree in art history at the University of Havana, and an M.A. and M.Phil. in the combined program in renaissance studies and Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation, which deals with the intersection between death, gender, and power in the early modern Iberian empire. In Cuba, she worked as a lecturer in art history at the University of Havana and as an editor of Ediciones ICAIC and the magazine Cine Cubano, as well as in the protection of intangible cultural heritage. 

Research Interests

Early modern literature and art of the Spanish Empire; festival culture and commemorations; Inquisitions and the supernatural; women and gender studies; the history of the book; media studies

Distinctions

MacMillan Center International Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University, 2022-2023
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Research Fellowship, 2022
Rolena Adorno Scholar, Nathan Hale Associates Scholarship Program, 2021
Sigma Delta Pi Hispanic Honor Society, 2020
ENDESA Cultural Heritage Fellowship for Latin America, National Museum of Romanticism, Madrid 2011-2012

Selected Publications

• "'La dolorosa gloria:' Cervantes as a Character in Manuel Mujica Láinez’s Bomarzo," co-authored with Nils Longueira Borrego. A Character Named Cervantes: On Screen, on Stage, and on the Page, edited by Howard Mancing and Tatevik Gyulamiryan, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2024.
• "Race and Visions of Salvation in Colonial Andes." The Routledge Companion to Race in Early Modern Artistic, Material, and Visual Production, edited by Christina H. Lee, Dominique Polanco, and Nicholas R. Jones, Routledge, forthcoming 2024.
• "Death, Power, and Queenship: Funeral Portraits of Queen Margaret of Austria in Italy." Librosdelacorte.es, Instituto de Estudios de la Corte, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, no. 28, 16, Spring-Summer 2024, pp. 277-304.
• "Islas dentro de la Isla: repensando la 'otredad' en dos documentales de Sara Gómez," co-authored with Nils Longueira Borrego, LLJournal, CUNY, volume 14, 2, 2019.
• "A Conversation with Yelsy Hernández Zamora: Protecting Intangible Cultural Heritage in Cuba." The Routledge Companion to Intangible Heritage, edited by Peter Davis and Michelle L. Stefano. London and New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 111-120.

Professional Affiliations

Renaissance Society of America 
Sixteenth Century Society
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender
Society for Iberian Global Art
College Art Association

Appointed to the Faculty

Educational Background

Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University
M.Phil., Yale University
M.A., Yale University
B.A., University of Havana, Cuba