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Dr. Brian Brewer
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Hares, Cages, and Crickets: Erotic Metaphors in Don Quijote 2.73 in, editor(s)Paul Michael Johnson Chad Leahy Elizabeth Neary , Cervantes in Transit: Studies in Honor of Francisco Layna Ranz, Delaware, USA, University of Delaware Press, 2026, [Brian Brewer] Book Chapter, 2026

Brian Brewer, Don Quijote: The Econopoetics of Cervantes's Epic Comedy, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 48, (1), 2025, p49 - 75 Journal Article, 2025 DOI

Cosmos + Taxis, 12, 3-4, (2024), 1 - 90p, Brian Brewer, [Guest Editor] Journal, 2024 URL

Brian Brewer, Don Quijote: Cervantes's Liberal Comedy, Cosmos + Taxis, 12, (3-4), 2024, p54 - 66 Journal Article, 2024 URL

Brian Brewer, Comic Exaggeration, Eroticism, and Character in Don Quijote: Maritornes, Doña Rodríguez, Altisidora, Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes society of America, 42, (1), 2022, p35 - 55 Journal Article, 2022

Brian Brewer, Unity-in-Variety, admiratio, and Verisimilitude in the Interpolated Stories of Don Quijote, Part One, BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES, 99, (8), 2022, p699 - 720 Journal Article, 2022 TARA - Full Text

Cervantes and Genre in, editor(s)Aaron M. Kahn , Oxford Handbook of Cervantes, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, [Brian Brewer] Book Chapter, 2021

Brian Brewer, Quixotic Economy: Comedy, Romance and Early Modern Economics in Don Quijote, Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes society of America, 39, (1), 2019, p117 - 134 Journal Article, 2019

Brian Brewer, Sancho Panza, Arbitrista, eHumanista/Cervantes, 7, 2019, p42 - 60 Journal Article, 2019

Value, Price, and Money: Early Modern Economic Theory in Three Episodes of Don Quijote in, editor(s)Stephen Boyd , The Art of Cervantes in Don Quixote: Critical Essays., London, Legenda, 2019, pp131 - 157, [Brian Brewer] Book Chapter, 2019

Brian Brewer, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Early Modern Economics, Humor, and Point of View In Lazarillo de Tormes, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 42, (3), 2018, p473 - 497 Journal Article, 2018

Brian Brewer, 'Yo sería cobdicioso mercader': Aristocratic Economics in El Abencerraje, Revista Hispanica Moderna, 70, (1), 2017, p37 - 53 Journal Article, 2017

Brian Brewer, The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword: Action as Madness in Don Quixote, Forum For Modern Language Studies, 51, (4), 2015, p364 - 378 Journal Article, 2015

The Sterility of Abundance: Marcela and Grisśtomo in the Golden Age in, editor(s)Terrence O'Reilly and Stephen Boyd , Artificio e Invención: Essays on the Prose, Poetry and Drama of the Spanish Golden Age, London, Legenda, 2014, pp32 - 42, [Brian Brewer ] Book Chapter, 2014

Brian Brewer, Bacías de barbero, yelmos y baciyelmos: Pespectivismo económico en Don Quijote, Pictavia aurea: Actas del IX Congreso de la Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro, Tolouse, edited by Emma Herrán AlonsoAlain Bègue , PUM, 2014, pp359 - 366 Conference Paper, 2014

Brian Brewer, From Conquest to Contract: Property, Justice and the New Economic Empire in Don Quijote, Part One, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 48, (1), 2014, p3 - 24 Journal Article, 2014

The Sins of the Father are Redeemed by the Son (and Daughter): Determinism and Moral Autonomy in Cervantes' Novelas ejemplares in, editor(s)Aaron M. Kahn , Connecting Past and Present: Exploring the Influence of the Spanish Golden Age in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, pp59 - 74, [Brian Brewer ] Book Chapter, 2014

Brian Brewer, Jealousy and Usury in El celoso extremeño, Cervantes, 33, (1), 2013, p11 - 43 Journal Article, 2013

Brian Brewer, La matemáticas sutiles o los límites del saber en La vida es sueño, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 88, (4), 2011, p487 - 521 Journal Article, 2011

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Brian Brewer, Review of Don Quijote de la Mancha o el triunfo de la ficción caballeresca, by Aurora Egido , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 101, (10), 2024, p1574-1575 Review, 2024

Brian Brewer, Review of Affective Geographies: Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean, by Paul Michael Johnson , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 99, (1), 2022 Review, 2022

Brian Brewer, Review of Sins of the Fathers: Moral Economies in Early Modern Spain, by Hilaire Kallendorf , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2017, p9-10 Review, 2017

Brian Brewer, Review of Knowing Minds. Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern Spanish Literature, by Barbara Simerka , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 93, (2), 2016, p346-47 Review, 2016

Brian Brewer, Review of Sociabilidad y literature en el Siglo de Oro, by Mechthild Albert , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 92, (6), 2015 Review, 2015

Brian Brewer, Review of De amor y literature: hacia Cervantes, by Juan Ramón Muñoz Sánchez , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 91, (8), 2014 Review, 2014

Brian Brewer, Review of A secreto agravio secreta venganza, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Erik Coenen , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 89, (6), 2012 Review, 2012

Recognition

Representations

Executive Council, Cervantes Society of America 2024-2026

Manuscript Reviewer, University of Toronto Press 2012, 2026

Manuscript Reviewer, Peter Lang 2020

Peer Reviewer: Cervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America; Bulletin of Hispanic Studies; Bulletin of Spanish Studies; Cincinnati Romance Review; Hispanic Review; Hispanófila; Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 2014-2026

External Assessor, National University of Ireland Traveling Scholarship. 2014

Awards and Honours

Luis Andrés Murillo Prize (Cervantes Society of America) December 2013

Anthony Close Scholarship (Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro) 2010

Morgan Edwards Fellowship, Brown University 2007

William K. Kraemer Memorial Award for Scholarship in Ethics, University of Arkansas 2000

Memberships

Cervantes Society of America 2013 – Present

Renaissance Society of America 2014 – Present