Lisa Vollendorf

Lisa Vollendorf
6th President of Empire State University
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2022
Preceded by	Beth Berlin (interim) Jim Malatras
Personal details
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania Colorado State University
Thesis	The body imperiled: Violence against women in Maria de Zayas's novellas (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Marina S. Brownlee
Academic work
Discipline	Spanish literature
Institutions	California State University Sonoma State University San Jose State University California State University Miami University

Lisa Vollendorf is an American scholar of sixteenth and seventeenth century women’s cultural history in Iberia and Latin America, and college administrator. She is currently the president of Empire State University.

Academic career

She received BA in English and Spanish from Colorado State University in 1990, an MA in Spanish and Latin American Literatures from University of Pennsylvania in 1992, and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995.

She was department chair, senate chair, and professor of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach (2005–12). She began her teaching career at Miami University of Ohio (1995–97) and earned tenure at Wayne State University in Detroit (1997-2005).

Vollendorf was Dean ofd Humanities and the Arts at San José State University (2012-2017), where she led efforts in collaboration with the city of San José to bring the Hammer Theatre to life. From 2017-2020, she was Provost and Executive Vice President of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California.

She was Interim Provost and Chief Academic Officer at the University of Northern Colorado, and Special Advisor for Academic Planning and Operational Continuity for the California State University system (2020–21).

In 2022, she became the sixth President of Empire State University, part of the State University of New York (SUNY).

Bibliography

• Women Playwrights of Early Modern Spain, Ed. Nieves Romero-Díaz and Lisa Vollendorf. Trans. Harley Erdman (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series, Iter Press and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016)
• Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic, Ed. Harald E. Braun and Lisa Vollendorf (Brill, 2013)
• Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World (1600–1800), Ed. Daniella Kostroun and Lisa Vollendorf (University of Toronto Press, July 2009)
• Literatura y feminismo en España: s. XV - XXI, Ed. and coord., Lisa Vollendorf (Barcelona: Icaria Press, February 2006)
• The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005)
• Reclaiming the Body: María de Zayas's Early Modern Feminism (University of North Carolina Press, July 2001)
• Spain's Feminist Tradition (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2001).