Caroline Egan
Assistant Professor
- caroline.egan@northwestern.edu
- 847-491-5063
- 3-121 Crowe
Caroline Egan specializes in the literatures and cultures of early colonial Latin America. Her monograph, Words Made Flesh: Language, Body, and Conversion in Colonial Latin America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025), examines the role played by corporeality in a series of missionary linguistic and poetic projects from Brazil, Peru, and Mexico, analyzing how works produced in Indigenous languages for the purpose of evangelization were shaped by and, in turn, transformed native understandings of embodiment.
She is co-editor, with Rodrigo Cacho Casal, of the Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture (2022) and her articles have appeared in journals including the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Hispanic Review, and Romance Notes.
Before coming to Northwestern, Caroline was a University Lecturer in Colonial Literary and Cultural Studies in the Spanish and Portuguese Section at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College.