​Julia Domínguez is a Professor of Spanish, Director of the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program (LAIS), and a Fellow in the ACHIEVE Program at the University of Delaware. 

Her research focuses on early modern Spanish literature with a particular emphasis on Cervantes from the standpoint of the rise of science in the Renaissance. She is especially interested in how Cervantes and other authors of the time reflected the individual’s relationship to their body, mind, and environment in their literary works due to the renewed scientific and philosophical discourses and the impact of new technologies. 

She is the author of Quixotic Memories: Cervantes and Memory in Early Modern Spain (U of Toronto P, 2022), which treats the plurality and complexity of memory’s cultural scope through the lens of Cervantes and explores the many spaces that memory created for itself in Early Modern Spain. She has published a collection of essays about Cervantes and his works entitled Cervantes in Perspective (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2012), and she is also the co-editor of the volume Hispanic Studies in Honor of Robert L. Fiore with more than 30 essays. She has also published dozens of articles on early modern Spanish literature, memory studies, science fiction, film, and Cervantes. 

Her current research involves two book manuscripts. The Arts of Mnemosyne. Expressions of Mnemonic Culture in Renaissance Spain and Latin America explores the historical significance of Renaissance memory palaces and establishes connections to contemporary discussions on artificial intelligence, systems of knowledge production, information manipulation, and the presentation of alternative realities. The second book is a collection of essays, Mental Libraries: Tracing the Art of Memory’s Reception, a volume by scholars from different universities in Europe and America in collaboration with the Society of Mnemonic Studies.

​In 2021/2022, she was awarded the Biruté Ciplijauskaité Research Fellowship from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2020, she received the University Teacher Award from the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, and she is currently a member of the Board of Directors (2024-2027). ​