Hermida-Ruiz's current book project analyzes the critical construction of Garcilaso de la Vega (1503-1536) in contemporary Spanish historiography. Connected with her ongoing interest in contemporary uses of the past and in the contingency of literary history as cultural legacy, she is deeply interested in developing a Keck course on leadership and Don Quixote. After the global celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Cervantes' masterpiece, the course will serve as both the occasion and the means to analyze the power of Don Quixote as an inspiration for contemporary leaders and leadership studies.

Hermida-Ruiz's research interests are early modern Spanish literature and Spanish literary historiography, with a particular focus on cultural periodization and canon formation. Together with Ignacio Navarrete, she is the editor of Garcilaso Studies: A New Trajectory, a special issue of Caliope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. She has published on Castilian cancionero poetry and Petrarchan poetics, as well as on the work of some influential literary critics and historians, such as Rafael Lapesa and Jose Antonio Maravall.

She received her bachelor's degree in Spanish literature from the University of Seville and her master's degree and doctorate in Spanish literature from the University of Virginia.

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