缅北强奸

Elena Deanda-Camacho is a Professor of Spanish and Black Studies, and the Director of the Black Studies Program at 缅北强奸. She received her BA from the University of Veracruz, Mexico, and her PhD from Vanderbilt University. Besides literature, she has studied philosophy, religion, and medieval studies in Mexico, France, and the USA.

Deanda specializes in early modern Spanish literature with an emphasis in the Spanish Enlightenment and colonial Mexico. Her research moves between medieval women鈥檚 theology and prostitution in the eighteenth century. Her scholarship and teaching practice interrogates questions about gender, race, and ethnicity; desire, sex, and love; inquisitorial censorship and freedom of speech.

She has published in academic journals in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Germany, France, and England. Her work has been funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Spanish ministries of Culture, Science, and Innovation, the North American Association of Modern Languages, the Association for the Studies of Eighteenth-Century Studies, the National Fund for Culture and the Arts of Mexico, and the government of Veracruz.

Her 2022 monograph Offensive to pious ears, Obscenity and censorship in eighteenth-century poetry in Spain and New Spain (Iberoamericana/Vervuert) won the 2023 Prize for the Best Monograph given by the Spanish Society of 18^th Century Studies (SESXVIII). Her second monograph Trovar: Metapoetics of Occitania and Sotavento will be published in 2023 by the University of Veracruz.

She is currently working on a monograph entitled "Pornopoetics" where she theorizes the poetics of pornography in 18th-Century imperial Europe. Deanda is the outgoing president of the Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies  (IASECS) and the 2023 recipient of a Fulbright Global Scholar Award in the universities of Bonn in Germany, Oviedo in Spain, and UNAM in Mexico.

 

Education

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2010

B.A. University of Veracruz, Mexico, 2001

Research

• Golden Age, Baroque, and the Enlightenment
• Gender studies, queer theory, critical race theory, critical theory
• Spain and Mexico

Teaching

• How to Make Love in Early Modern Spain 
• Love and War in the Spanish Golden Age
• Vice and Virtue in Early Modern Europe 
• Prehispanic Literature
• Crusaders, Conquerors, and Immigrants
• Afro Latin America
• Tequila Gang: Mexico Across the Centuries
• Forbidden Literature

Publications

"Bailadoras: Las mujeres y el fandango en Espa帽a y la Nueva Espa帽a del siglo 18.鈥� Revista de Estudios de G茅nero y Sexualidades 48.2 (2022): 75-94

鈥淗ell is Over: Poetry and Protest in the Folksong Jarabe Gatuno in Eighteenth Century Mexico.鈥� Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century. Ed. Yvonne Fuentes. New York: Routledge, 2021. 

鈥淔anny Hill, la pornograf铆a y la novela sentimental: El eslab贸n faltante en la gesta de la novela inglesa dieciochesca鈥� [Fanny Hill, Pornography and the Sentimental novel: The Missing Link in the Making of the Eighteenth Century English Novel] Nuevas Poligraf铆as. Revista de Teor铆a Literaria y Literatura Comparada 3 (2021): 38-56. 

鈥溾�楥hingaquedito:鈥� Son y Subversi贸n en el M茅xico del siglo 18鈥� [鈥楥hingaquedito: Song and Subversion in 18th Century Mexico鈥橾. M煤sica Oral del Sur 17 (2020): 303-21.  

鈥淭he Reproduction of Non-Productive Sex: The Brothel as a Site of Learning in English, French, and Spanish Pornologies.鈥� Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert 44.2 (2020): 190-209. 

鈥淟a pornolog铆a como un instrumento epistemol贸gico en Fanny Hill, Th茅r猫se Philosophe, el Arte de putear y las D茅cimas a las prostitutas de M茅xico鈥� [Pornology as an Epistemological Instrument in Fanny Hill, Th茅r猫se Philosopher, the Art of Whoring, and Poems to Mexican Prostitutes]. Cuadernos de Estudios del Siglo XVIII 30 (2020): 137-64.  

鈥淒ys/Eu-phemisms: The Pornographic and the Erotic in Eighteenth Century Spanish Poetry.鈥� Pornographic Sensibilities. Chad Leahy and Nick Jones, eds. New York: Routledge, 2020. 110-140. 

鈥淨uevedo en M茅xico: La lealtad y la traici贸n en las glosas del padrenuestro prohibidas por la Inquisici贸n.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Flavia Gherardi and Miguel Angel Candelas Colodron, eds. Amor constante: Quevedo m谩s all谩 de la muerte. Bellaterra: Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona, 2018.  

鈥淪or Juana, doctora en Teolog铆a: la sabidur铆a y el conocimiento en los villancicos de 1676.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Cal铆ope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry
22.2 (2017):

鈥淨uixotic Sade: Echoes of Cervantes in 120 Days of Sodom.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 46 (2017):

鈥淔rom Hell to Hell: Bodily Regimes and Archival Research in Mexico, Spain, the Vatican, and France鈥� Dieciocho 39.2 (2016): 

鈥淟a fatalidad del poder: La Muerte como el Papa y el Inquisidor en Las Cortes de la Muerte de Micael de Carvajal y Lope de Vega.鈥� Bulletin of Comediantes 67.2 (2015):

鈥淪peak in SIlence: The Power of Weakness in the Works of Teresa de Cartagena.鈥� eHumanista 29 (2015): . 

鈥淢aldito 鈥楯arabe Gatuno:鈥� Poeticas de la censura inquisitorial en la Nueva Espana.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Vanderbilt e-journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies 10 (2014):

鈥溾�橧ntroduction鈥� to Silence Revisited: Censorship, Regulation, and Freedom of Speech,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Vanderbilt e-journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies 10 (2014): 

鈥淧ercances de la memoria: El sujeto y la colectividad en La versada de Arcadio Hidalgo.鈥� Ed. Donaji Cuellar. Literatura de tradicion oral de Mexico: Generos representativos. San Luis-Xalapa: Colegio de San Luis-U of Veracruz, 2012.  

鈥淢aria Candelaria y Oficio de tinieblas. Representando a la mujer indigena en el Mexico del siglo XX.鈥� Semiosis 13.1 (2011):

鈥淭he Politics of a Colonial Folksong: Male Bonding, Pardos鈥� Chuchumbe, and the Inquisitorial Body.鈥� Transverse 10 (2010):

鈥淓l chuchumb茅 te he de soplar: sobre obscenidad, censura y memoria oral en el primer 鈥榮on de la tierra鈥� novohispano.鈥� Mester 36 (2007):

鈥淥n Joy, Death, and Writing: From Autobiography to Autothanatography in Clarice Lispector鈥檚 Works.鈥� Working Papers in Romance Languages 1.1 (2006)