Elena Deanda
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Elena Deanda-Camacho studies the inquisitorial censorship of discourses perceived as obscene in Spain and New Spain from the 16th to the 18th century.
In particular, she focuses on the antagonistic and conniving relationship between obscenity and censorship. Besides Literature, she has studied Philosophy, Religion, and Medieval Studies in Mexico and France. At Washington College, she is enjoying teaching all levels of Spanish language, culture, and literature. Her literary periods are Spanish Golden Age, Baroque, Colonial Literature and the Enlightenment.
Education
- B.A., Universidad Veracruzana, 2001
- M.A., Vanderbilt University, 2007
- Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2010
- “Maria Candelaria y Oficio de tinieblas. Representando a la mujer indigena en el Mexico del siglo XX.” Semiosis 13.1 (2011): 69-84. At http://www.uv.mx/semiosis/articulos/ElenaDeandaCamacho.pdf
- “The Politics of a Colonial Folksong: Male Bonding, Pardos’ Chuchumbe, and the Inquisitorial Body.” Transverse 10 (2010): 15 pp. Athttp://groups.chass.utoronto.ca/complitstudents/transverse/current_issue.html
- Review: “No solo ayunos y oraciones. Piezas teatrales menores en conventos de monjas (Siglo XVIII). Por Maria Sten y Raquel Gutierrez Estupinan.” The Latin Americanist 52.3 (2008): 105-107. At http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1557-203X.2008.00027_14.x/abstract
- “El chuchumbé te he de soplar: sobre obscenidad, censura y memoria oral en el primer ‘son de la tierra’ novohispano.” Mester 36 (2007): 53-71. Athttp://www.archive.org/stream/mesteruniv36univ#page/52/mode/2up
- “On Joy, Death, and Writing: From Autobiography to Autothanatography in Clarice Lispector’s Works.” Working Papers in Romance Languages 1.1 (2006) Vol. : Iss. 1, Article 5. At http://repository.upenn.edu/wproml/vol1/iss1/5/
