Elena Deanda

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About Elena Deanda

Deanda specializes in early modern Spanish literature with an emphasis in the Spanish Enlightenment and colonial Mexico. Her research moves between medieval women’s 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 articles on medieval literature, the Spanish Golden Age, transatlantic Baroque, colonial folk music, and Mexican literature. Her book, A los oídos piadosos: Obscenidad y censura en la poesía del en España y México (To Pious Ears: Obscenity and Censorship in 18th Century Poetry in Spain and Mexico) will be released in 2022, published by Iberoamericana/Vervuert.