Dr PJ Lennon

Senior Lecturer

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Spanish

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2971

Email

pjl7@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 65

Location

United Colleges

Office hours

On leave in Semester 2 2025-26

 

Biography

Dr Lennon joined St Andrews in 2017, having previously worked at Cambridge and Exeter universities. He received his LLB from the University of Edinburgh and his MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has been the AHGBI-WISPS Dorothy Sherman-Severin Fellow, UW-Madison Birutė Ciplijauskaitė Fellow, and is a Fellow of Advance HE.

Research areas

Dr Lennon specialises in the Early Modern period with a focus on Hispanic literature and culture and the many influences that helped shape it. He would be interested to hear from potential graduate students keen to explore Early Modern Hispanic literature and culture, whether exclusively or comparatively.

Dr Lennon co-supervises the following PhD student:

• Emma Mavin (University of Edinburgh) 'Pain and Passivity in the Theology of John of the Cross'

Selected publications

• Marriage as medianía in Juan Boscán’s Respuesta a Don Diego de Mendoza

  Lennon, P. J., 13 Jul 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. Accepted/in press

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Caveat emptor: the curious case of Scotland’s Astorga Collection

  Lennon, P. J., 7 Aug 2024, In: The Library. 25, 1, p. 53-71 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Monsters, myths, and masculinities in Boscán's Respuesta a Don Diego de Mendoza

  Lennon, P. J., 30 Jan 2023, In: Modern Languages Open. 1, 2, 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Figuring Vittoria Colonna’s Desirous Widow in Francisco de Aldana’s ‘Pues cabe tanto en vos del bien del cielo’

  Lennon, P. J., 23 Dec 2021, In: Romance Studies. 39, 4, p. 208-220 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Conversion and colonial history in Icíar Bollaín's También la lluvia (2010)

  Lennon, P. J. & Egan, C., 2019, In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 96, 9, p. 935-952 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Love in the poetry of Francisco de Aldana: beyond neoplatonism

  Lennon, P. J., 20 Sept 2019, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis. 203 p. (Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; vol. 386)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Sources, syncretism, and significance in Calderón's El divino Orfeo (c.1634)

  Lennon, P. J., 1 Jan 2016, In: Bulletin of the Comediantes. 68, 2, p. 71-97 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• ‘las partes donde Amor el cetro tiene’: uncanonical love in Francisco de Aldana's ‘Medoro y Angélica’

  Lennon, P. J., 2015, In: Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 92, 4, p. 507-525 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Paratextual subversion: Herrera and his poetry in the anotaciones

  Lennon, P. J., 1 Jun 2015, In: Hispanic Research Journal. 16, 3, p. 208-220 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Translation of ‘Obscuro el mundo y sin placer yacía’ in Nye, Eric W. John Kemble’s Gibraltar Journal: The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles, 1830-1831

  Lennon, P. J. (Translator), 2015, 1 p. Palgrave Macmillan.

  Research output: Other contribution

 

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