Professor Ohanna specializes in Spanish Golden Age and Colonial Spanish-American literatures. His area of research is the intellectual history of the Early Modern period, with a focus on the cultural triangle of Europe, Africa and the Americas in struggle and exchange, the Western discursive configuration of the East and the New World, Spanish Humanism in the time of the Counter-Reformation, and the functions and meanings of cross-cultural narratives of travel, shipwreck and captivity. Dr. Ohanna has published in academic journals such as Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Hispanic Journal, and Anales Cervantinos.
