Elena Deanda

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About

Elena Deanda Camacho is a Professor of Spanish and Black Studies at Washington College in Maryland. She has a B.A. in Hispanic Language and Literature from Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico), and a Ph.D. in Spanish and Philosophy from Vanderbilt University. She also studied Occitan literature at the Université Jean Jaurés (France) and Philosophy at UNAM (México).

Deanda teaches pre-modern literature, and specializes in 18th century forbidden literature and pornography in Europe and the Americas. She has published in academic journals in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Germany, France, and England. Her work has been funded by the Fulbright Program, the Mellon Foundation, the Spanish ministries of culture 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.

In 2022, she published Offensive to pious ears, Obscenity and censorship in eighteenth-century poetry in Spain and New Spain, with Iberoamericana/Vervuert. Her second monograph Trovar: Metapoetics in Occitania and Sotavento is to be published in 2023 by the University of Veracruz. She is currently working on a monograph entitled “Pornopoetics or the Poetics of Pornography in the European 18th century.”

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 at the universities of Bonn in Germany, Oviedo in Spain, and UNAM in Mexico.

Education

Ph.D. in Spanish. Honors. Vanderbilt University. Nashville, TN. USA.

Minor in Philosophy.

Certificate in Latin American Studies. 2010.

M.A. in Spanish. Honors. Vanderbilt University. Nashville, TN. USA. 2007.

B.A. in Spanish Literature. University of Veracruz. Xalapa, Ver. MEXICO. 2001.

Research abroad: Center for Occitan Studies and Université Jean Jaurés. Toulouse, FRANCE.

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Publications

Books

Ofensiva a los oídos piadosos: Obscenidad y censura en la poesía española y novohispana del siglo dieciocho [Offensive to Pious Ears: Obscenity and Censorship in 18th-Century Spanish and Mexican Poetry]. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2022.

Reviews: Dieciocho 2023, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 2023.

Winner of the 2023 Prize for the Best Monograph from the Sociedad de Estudios del Siglo XVIII (SESXVIII).

Trovar: Metapoéticas en Occitania y Sotavento [Versifying: Metapoetics in Southern France and Southern Mexico]. México: Ediciones Del Lirio-Universidad Veracruzana, 2023 (Forthcoming).

Articles

Bulletin Hispanique (2024). “Mujeres, monstruos y abortos: Privilegios de las mujeres preñadas de Francisco de Villanueva y Gutiérrez y la censura de Ruiz de Luzuriaga.” (Forthcoming). France.

Bulletin of Spanish Studies (2023). “Economías espermáticas del 18: La traducción española de L’onanisme de Tissot” (Forthcoming). England.

Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades 48.2 (2022): 75-94. “Bailadoras: Las mujeres y el fandango en España y la Nueva España del siglo 18.” USA.

Nuevas Poligrafías. Revista de Teoría Literaria y Literatura Comparada de la UNAM 3 (2021): 38-56. “Fanny Hill, la pornografía y la novela sentimental: El eslabón faltante en la gesta de la novela inglesa dieciochesca.” Mexico.

Música Oral del Sur 17 (2020): 303-21. “‘Chingaquedito:’ Son y Subversión en el México del 18.” Spain.

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

Cuadernos de Estudios del Siglo XVIII 30 (2020): 137-64. “La pornología como un instrumento epistemológico en Fanny Hill, Thérèse Philosophe, el Arte de putear y las Décimas a las prostitutas de México.” Spain.

Calíope. Journal of the Society of Renaissance and Baroque Poetry 22.2 (2017): 191-216. “Sor Juana, doctora en Teología: La sabiduría y el conocimiento en los villancicos de 1676.” USA.

Studies of Eighteenth-Century Culture 46 (2017): 21-33. “Quixotic Sade: Echoes of Cervantes in 120 Days of Sodom.” USA.

Bulletin of Comediantes 67.2 (2015): 157-76. “La fatalidad del poder: La muerte como el papa y el inquisidor en Las Cortes de la Muerte de Lope de Vega y Micael de Carvajal.” USA.

e-Humanista. Journal of Iberian Studies 29 (2015): 461-75. “Speak in Silence: The Power of Weakness in the Works of Teresa de Cartagena.” USA.

Vanderbilt e-journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies 10 (2014): 25-36. “‘Maldito’ “Jarabe gatuno:” Poéticas de la censura inquisitorial en la Nueva España.” USA.

Semiosis 13.1 (2011): 69-84. “María Candelaria y Oficio de tinieblas: Representando a la mujer indígena en el México del siglo XX.” Mexico.

Transverse 10 (2010): 15 pages. “The Politics of a Colonial Folksong: Male Bonding, Pardos’ Chuchumbe, and the Inquisitorial Body.” Canada.

Mester 36 (2007): 53-71. “El chuchumbé te he de soplar: sobre obscenidad, censura y memoria oral en el primer ‘son de la tierra’ novohispano.” USA.

UPenn Working Papers in Romance Languages 1.1 (2006) Article 5. “On Joy, Death, and Writing: From Autobiography to Autothanatography in Clarice Lispector’s Works.” USA.

Book Chapters

Visual Representation on Latina Domestic Workers. “Sexy Mexican Maid: Female Trasnational Networks and the Ethics of Care.” Karina Vazquez and Sofía Ruiz Alfaro, eds. (Accepted).

Entre ingenios y agudezas: Nuevos rumbos de la crítica celestinesca y picaresca. Amaranta Saguar y Devid Paolini, eds. Salamanca: U of Salamanca, 2023. “Celestina, la reproducción y el capital” (Accepted).

Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century. Yvonne Fuentes and Mark Malin, eds. New York: Routledge, 2021. 213-230. “Hell is Over: Poetry and Protest in the Folksong Jarabe Gatuno in Eighteenth Century Mexico.”

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

Amor constante: Quevedo más allá de la muerte. Flavia Gherardi and Miguel Ángel Candelas Colodrón, eds. Bellaterra: University of Barcelona, 2018. 71-92. “Quevedo en México: La lealtad y la traición en las glosas del padrenuestro prohibidas por la Inquisición.”

Literatura de tradición oral de México. Ed. Donají Cuellar. San Luis Potosí-Xalapa: College of San Luis-University of Veracruz, 2012. 197-221. “Percances de la memoria: Tensiones entre el sujeto y la colectividad en La versada de Arcadio Hidalgo.”

Projects

Monograph: “Pornopoetics: The Poetics of Pornography in 18th Century Imperial Europe.”

Article: “The Digital Archive as a Site of Memory for Afro Mexican History.”

Article: “Gilles de Rais: France, l’Inquisition, et la Force du Silence.”

Article: “The Indigenous Use of Cannabis in 18th Century Mexico.”

Upcoming Talks and Conferences

Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference. Bogotá, Colombia. May 2024. “Mujer, Immigración y Academia.” Forthcoming.

North East Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Annual Convention. Boston, MA. March 2024. “Women, Immigration, and Academia.” Forthcoming.

American Society of Eighteenth-Century Stusies (ASECS) Conference. Toronto, CA. March 2024. “Chocolate, Potatoes, Tomatoes: American Staples in the 18th-Century Table.” Forthcoming.

Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. January 2024. “The Bee Effect: Decolonial Feminisms from the Global South in a Post-Developed World.” Forthcoming.

Memberships

Modern Language Association.

North East Modern Language Association.

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Association of Studies of Gender and Sexualities.

Feministas Unidas.

Institute Feijoo, U of Oviedo, Spain.

Associate Professor Of Spanish

Washington College