Margaret Boyle's teaching and research spans the literature and culture of early modern Spain and colonial Latin America. She is the author of Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence and Punishment in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2014) and co-editor of Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2021). Her primary interests include Hispanic women's literary and cultural history, comedia history and performance, and health humanities, including medical, spiritual and food cultures.