Research
I am an historian of early modern Spain, Italy, and the Mediterranean world, and am a second field medievalist. Much of my archival research has taken place in Granada, Madrid, and Genoa. My first book on an elite Morisco family is in production with Manchester University Press.
Read my 2025 article in The Historical Journal on Renaissance self-fashioning here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/360F81ED276BF144179436B8C697EB0C/S0018246X24000499a.pdf/renaissance-self-fashioning-after-44-years-hybridity-conversos-individuation-and-litterature-totale.pdf
Read my 2024 article in eHumanista on Jesuit notions of nobility here:
https://www.ehumanista.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/sitefiles/ehum60.et_etr%20edits.pdf
Below is a picture from when I participated in the NEH Summer Seminar, “The Alhambra and Spain’s Islamic Past,” in 2015, book reviews, encyclopedia articles, a speaker series I organized for my department at FIU, and a conference I co-hosted with Hugh Thomas at the University of Miami.
Read my two Encyclopedia articles here:
Terry-Roisin, Elizabeth Ashcroft. “Hernando de Acuña.” In Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, edited by Marco Sgarbi. Dordrecht: Springer International Publishers, 2018.
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1133-
Terry-Roisin, Elizabeth Ashcroft. “Chivalry, Renaissance Conception of.” In Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, edited by Marco Sgarbi. Dordrecht: Springer International Publishers. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_846-1
Co-authored book chapter
Look for Ignacio Navarrete and my article, “Nobles and Court Culture,” in Brill’s Companion to the Spanish Renaissance (2019).
