Lisa Vollendorf

Lisa Vollendorf is Special Advisor for Academic Continuity and Operational Planning at the California State University Office of the Chancellor. Formerly she was Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs at Sonoma State University (2017-20) and Dean of the College of Humanities and the Arts at San José State University (2012-17). From 2005-2012, she was a professor of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach, where she chaired the Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures. She is a fan of good manners, collaboration, the Sierra Club, recycling, low-impact healthy living, and our beautiful planet.

Vollendorf is author of two monographs: The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain (2005) and Reclaiming the Body: María de Zayas's Early Modern Feminism (2001). She has edited six books to date: Women Playwrights of Early Modern Spain (with Nieves Romero-Díaz and translator Harley Erdman, 2016); Approaches to Teaching Cervantes's Don Quixote (with James Parr, 2015); Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic (with Harald Braun, 2013); Women and Religion in the Atlantic World (with Daniella Kostroun, 2009); Literatura y feminismo en España (2006); and Recovering Spain's Feminist Tradition (2001). She received her PhD and MA from the University of Pennsylvania (1995 & 1992) and her BA from Colorado State University (1990).